Integrate Your Vendors

One of the challenges of managing vendor-provided software is getting all the parts to play together. This section discusses the issues of integration and offers some approaches to resolving them.

What Are Technical Components?

Technical components can be separate applications or Web services or database services. They are the building blocks that are required to deliver your application.

For example, Microsoft CRM consists of Web services application components, a Web server, and a back-end database. Other applications might deliver data in flat files or data transmissions. These subsets of business information are individual components of your technical solution.

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