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Chapter 2. Fundamental concepts in
Process Integration
Process Integration enables companies to connect people, process, and
applications across and beyond their enterprise. These solutions make it
possible to leverage existing IT investments while providing the flexibility to adapt
quickly to changing business conditions and emerging technologies.
This chapter introduces fundamental concepts in integrating people, process,
and applications. It proposes a set of notations and a new technique for
decomposing complex integration scenarios into simpler portions that can be
solved by applying the fundamental concepts of integration. It also discusses
Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities that must be considered in integration
scenarios. As such, the concepts introduced in this chapter apply to those
Architectural patterns documented by IBM Patterns for e-business that leverage
various integration techniques. In particular, these concepts are directly
applicable to the following areas of IBM Patterns for e-business:
Application Integration pattern
Extended Enterprise business pattern
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