Traditionally, enterprise application integration (EAI) processes handle structured data. Recent technology trends such as social and multimedia computing led to an increase in unstructured multimedia data like images and video streams that have to be processed by EAI. This poses challenges to EAI with respect to variety, velocity, and volume of the processed data. Furthermore, multimedia data has more semantic qualities (e. g., emotions) compared to structured data, making the interaction with the user more difficult. In this work, we analyze industrial scenarios and mobile applications with respect to their usage of EAI in multimedia computing. We derive multimedia operations and map them to the enterprise integration patterns (EIPs). We propose a realization that allows to interact with EAI processes taking the multimedia semantics into account, and study EAI architecture and message processing throughput challenges.

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