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Question 1

Business agility

Answer 1

The ability of a business to act rapidly and deliver efficiently the value to its customers.

Question 2

System Integration

Answer 2

The process of linking together distributed systems / software applications physically and functionally into an architecture working as a single system from the user’s perspective.

Question 3

Three core integrations approaches

Answer 3

Information-oriented (data) = it provides an integrated view of data contained in disparate systems.

Service-oriented (functionality) = it integrated loosely coupled, reusable software functions

Process-oriented (behavior) = it models multi-step interactions of data and functions within and out of enterprise boundaries.

Question 4

Information-oriented SI approach

Answer 4

In the information-oriented integration approach, the requirement is to integrate systems to be able to exchange data.

Information-oriented solutions are in general solved by replicating or by integrating data,
and doing that on the meta-data or the datalevel

Question 5

Service-oriented SI approach

Answer 5

In the service-oriented integration approach, a system invokes the functions of another system.

Question 6

Process-oriented SI approach

Answer 6

In the process-oriented integration approach, the communication between systems is structured as an automated process

Question 7

Communication refers to…

Answer 7

the data and functionality being shared among integrated systems.

Question 8

Management refers to…

Answer 8

the coordination of the integration – who will
communicate, when to communicate, and rules of communication.