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System integration
The primary objective of
software integration
is that two or more applications can collaborate with each other to complete a given task.
Methods
Horizontal integration: a decicated subsystem acts as single interface between applications (
ESB
)
Vertical integration: creation of
silos
.
Star integration (aka spaghetti integration): individual subsystems are connected to multiple other subsystems/applications.
Common data format
Approaches
Three system integration approaches:
Data-level point to point integration
Application-level point to point integration
Process-level incorporation
Common data format
In order to make it easer to pass
data
between integrated system, an organization might choose a
common data format
(usually for the
ESB
).
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