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7.1.4 Coping With System Integration Challenges in Large Complex Environments
Author(s) -
Muller Gerrit
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2007.tb02930.x
Subject(s) - system integration , scope (computer science) , computer science , integrator , process management , systems engineering , process (computing) , risk analysis (engineering) , engineering , business , computer network , bandwidth (computing) , programming language , operating system
The increasing scope of systems integration poses many challenges for the system integrators. This paper contends that in conventional projects the Systems Integration phase is systematically underestimated. During this phase all unexpected and unforeseen problems surface, where most problems are cross‐organizational. When the project size increases with more suppliers, more users, more enterprise processes, and more (intelligent) functionality, then the system integration phase gets tremendously more difficult. In this paper we will bring order to the integration process and discuss an approach and best practices to cope with systems integration in conventional projects. Such level of integration approach is a prerequisite to deal with all added integration complexity in systems with a scope of (intelligent) enterprises.