Rating Integration Readiness
Applications achieve integration readiness at a cost, usually in the form of time and effort. For these and other reasons, a phased approach is often preferred, enabling applications to progress from a basic integration capability to full-blown integration readiness over time. Without a formal rating or measuring scheme for integration readiness, the task of judging the integration capabilities of different applications becomes very subjective. Figure 14.1 shows a scheme that can be used to judge the integration readiness of applications based on the concepts and principles described throughout this book.
Figure 14.1. Rating integration readiness.
There are three levels of integration readiness:
Level I includes the ...
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