System Integration Process
- Horizontal Integration:
- Creating a different subsystem that is defined to be the single interface between each subsystem, endorsing that there is only one interface between any subsystem and may be substituted with another without disturbing the others by using dissimilar data and interfaces.
- Vertical Integration:
- Subsystems are integrated rendering to functionality by making “silos” of functional things, beginning with the lowest basic function upward (vertical). This very fast method only involves a few merchants and developers but becomes classier over time because to implement new functionalities, new silos must be formed.
- Star Integration:
- Also known as “Spaghetti Integration” because to each subsystem is connected to many subsystems so that the drawings of the interconnections look like a star. Though the more subsystems there are, the more connections are made, and it ends up viewing like spaghetti.
- Common Data Format:
- It is used to support the system and having a connector to convert each file in a single file format. Systems using this process set a common or application-independent format, or they offer a service that does the renovation to or from one application into the common application.
