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In this article, we would like to talk about EISs Integration and Interoperability, discover more below!
SIE and Enterprise Integration
Three levels of integration can be identified in an enterprise as defined by CIMOSA (ESPRIT Consortium AMICE, 1993) and which still hold:
- Physical Integration (communication level)
- Application Integration (cooperation level)
- Business Integration (collaboration level)
Enterprise Integration Trend
The trend is to build ever more loosely-coupled systems and less rigid and pre-defined solutions, thus better sustaining e-business agility and rapid enterprise evolution; to be able to build more collaborative enterprise information systems, i.e. federated information systems that can support collaborative work or that can cooperate with one another.
SIE and Enterprise Interoperability
While integration, according to the Webster dictionary, is about “to unite or to make complete”, interoperability is defined as “the ability of a system to use the parts of another system”. Interoperability can then be considered either as a capability, requirement or constraint of enterprise systems that impacts the seamless communication between (enterprise) information systems, devices and applications. (Vernadat, 2007).
Enterprise continues to evolve in its ever-changing environment as a result of adaptation to external forces, advances in technology, emerging business models, new legal regulations and/or optimisation of internal solutions; making what is today a fully integrated system, the partly integrated system of tomorrow.
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