http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/best-approach-to-integrating-multiple-solutions/ Wed, 22 May 2013 04:23:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/best-approach-to-integrating-multiple-solutions/#comment-108911 ekardris Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:12:07 +0000 #comment-108911 Because you have so many choices, this tells me that the business stakeholders for these two systems have not been included in the descision making process.  This is a huge risk for the organization.  The description of choices you’ve shared has multiple risk and opportunity choices.  It would be very difficult for anyone that knew nothing about your company or organization to help you with a suggestion.  Have you quantified the business risks for each choice? I’d recomend bringing in the business stakeholders to discuss the opportunities.  Managment’s job is to make a descision based on the business risk and opportunity.   When you describe the options, describe them in terms of abilities like: Useability – this web interface will be more useable for the users if it’s designed well,Reliabitlity – This software hook between the two systems will allow the systems to talk with what level of reliability?Scalability – These options will work well today, but which options will bite us in the but 5 years from now when the system is larger.By using terms like reliability, scaleability, useability, availability, security and others like this, managment can better understand how to make this descision for you.  Otherwise you risk making the descision that works today, but may choke the productivity of the business later on. 

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