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2. Information system urbanization
Over the years, a company accumulates a wide variety of applications and databases that are more or less redundant and not clearly linked, in the course of numerous projects; these may be legacy applications, client-server applications and/or Internet applications. This phenomenon is amplified if the company has undergone mergers and acquisitions.
Integrating and simplifying applications requires an in-depth analysis of the applications involved and their interdependencies: this is the urbanization approach. This approach seeks to decipher the company's various functional areas through all existing applications and data schemas, with a view to the past, present and future, unlike architecture, which focuses on individual systems over a given period of time.
As in a city, information system urban...
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Websites
Business Integration Journal http://www.bijonline.com
Software Development Magazine http://www.sdmagazine.com
XML Journal http://www.xml-journal.com
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World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) http://www.w3.org
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