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SIA Lecture 3 System Integration Process

The document discusses system integration, defining integration and interoperability. It explains that system integration involves integrating components and functions into a comprehensive working system. It also outlines characteristics an integrated information system for complex organizations should have like modularity, coherency, transparency, availability, reliability and sustainability.

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SIA Lecture 3 System Integration Process

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SIA 301: System Integration

and Architecture
Lesson 3: System Integration Process
Objectives: At the end of this lesson, you will be able to:

 Identify the best way to achieve successful SI

 Difference between Integration and Interoperability

 Characteristics of Integrated IS

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Getting Started
Thomas Norman CPP, PSP, CSC, in Integrated Security Systems Design (Second Edition),
2014 states that System integration involves both the integration of components and the
integration of functions. High-level functions can be obtained by integrating components
into a comprehensive working system instead of individual disconnected subsystems.

Systems integration is not a challenge of electronics; it is of course a technical challenge,


but more importantly, it is a challenge of imagination. Sometimes, investigation,
exploration, and invention are required. Consider it a puzzle to be solved. Norman states
suggest to look at the pieces and the objective.

Do not accept at face value what you are told by the manufacturers about the capabilities
and limitations of their systems. As a systems designer, you should know more than the
manufacturers about how to integrate systems. Comarch.com states that the goal of
integration services is to build an efficient and safe environment that provides quick access
and reliability, efficiency and completeness of information management.
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Integration vs. Interoperability
According to ieeexplore.ieee.org explain the terms integration and interoperability
are often misinterpreted analogously. Interoperability is the ability of disparate and
diverse organizations to interact towards mutually beneficial and agreed common
goals, involving the sharing of information and knowledge between the
organizations, through the business processes they support, by means of the
exchange of data between their respective ICT systems.

It aims at enabling the separate information systems of state government bodies to be


connected to the government network, improving thereby process management and
data exchange amongst state government bodies and simpler and faster public
service delivery. Moreover, it states that interoperability is “a property to the ability
of diverse systems and organizations to work together (inter-operate)”. In general,
interoperability can be expressed as the ability of organizations or entities to
cooperate with other entities or their information systems in order to deliver services
requested by the customer without any additional interference of the customer.
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Integration vs. Interoperatibility
Unlike the statement of interoperability as ability, the term integration refers
to coverage not to a property. Integration is thereby a statement of the extent
and answers the question how wide or to which range, where interoperability
answers the question who and how. Integration and interoperability are
relevant attributes of complex organizations.

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Integrated Information System Demanded Characteristics
By complex organizations and organizational systems, we understand entities
with specific needs and demands on how their business is being done or how
their mission is being achieved. They do not need to have formal constitution
but can comprise of different collaborators included in one or more process
flows.

Complex organizations consist of organizational entities which in their


orientation to produce expectable results for their end-users or clients
collaborate regardless of organizational boundaries. To be able to perform
according to this principle, complex organizations have specific demands on
IT and the IS that can be stated in one paradigm: integration of information
systems.

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Integrated information systems intended for complex
organizations should have following characteristics:
Modularity: the application structure consists of modules which have been
formed to provide optimal support to a process for which the module is
intended. Modularity allows the implementation of further IT ventures and
appending of modules with respect to priorities, redesign and optimization
efforts.

Coherency: maximum connectivity and interoperability of modules to


provide not only optimal support to a single process (as a partial set of related
activities) achieving thereby possibly suboptimal support on the
organizational level, but an optimal support on the level of process
interoperability between several organizational participants.

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Integrated information systems intended for complex
organizations should have following characteristics:
The vertical interoperability: the ability of modules/applications to ensure
optimal support of the entire process through different levels of performance
operability, management and decision-making collaboration regardless of
organizational boundaries.

Horizontal interoperability: the ability of modules/applications to ensure


optimal support of the entire process within one same level of performance
operability, management and decision-making collaboration regardless of
organizational boundaries.

Integrity: the functionality of applications and the range of data must be


defined with respect to the integrity of the process which is to be supported.
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Integrated information systems intended for complex
organizations should have following characteristics:
Transparency: clarified and disclosed rules and procedures for data access,
retrieval and processing allowing collaboration regardless of organizational
boundaries.

Availability: ability to access data or applications whenever a user needs via


connections based on modern communication technologies.

Functionality: the ability of IS to perform expected set of functionalities.

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Integrated information systems intended for complex
organizations should have following characteristics:
Reliability: the ability of an IS to provide the expected level of functionality
in certain circumstances, within the default time.

Usability: measure of the impression of how well the functionality meets the
needs of users while performing assigned business processes (functional
application itself does not have any to be useful).

Efficiency: ability of an IT system to be functional and useful with minimal


consumption of resources necessary to operate.

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Integrated information systems intended for complex
organizations should have following characteristics:
Sustainability: managerial ability to maintain the expected level of
functionality, efficiency and effectiveness by performing corrective activities
without disrupting the functionality of the IS in an organizational acceptable
time of low or no availability (this feature can be also called reparability of
products, such as electronic devices in a manufacturing industry).

Portability: ability of retaining the expected level of functionality, efficiency


and effectiveness in a changing environment.

These characteristics have an implicit influence on the selection of an appropriate strategic option for
information system integration, as it will be denoted in the SWOT analyses where the influence can be related
to specific strategies
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Activity 3
Create a research about the difference between the System Integrator and Solution Architect
in terms of providing System Integration.
Follow the research format uploaded in the LMS.

Submission is on December 2, 2023 (Saturday) before 11:59 PM

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