MD240 Management Information Systems Nov. 29, 2005 Technologies for Intra-Organization Systems Integration: From EDI to the Programmable Web
Topics Covered Technologies for Systems Integration –EDI, Package Applications, Web Services Web Services Overview –Key terms –Southwest Airlines Implementation SAP NetWeaver Rearden Commerce Mash-ups & the Programmable Web
Linking Applications EDI – Electronic Data Interchange –Well established (X.12/EDIFACT) –Expensive over private networks, complex Package Applications –Fast to deploy, but limited to vendor offerings Web Services –A collection of technologies (an alphabet soup of tech standards & communications protocols) that together get computer programs to talk to one another. –XML, SOAP, UDDI, WSDL, …
southwestairlines.com dollar.com alamo.com hertz.com Inter-Firm Web Services
Rearden’s OnDemand Biz Services Source: InfoWorld