It has become common to have applications integration. The increasing availability of the standards, as well as tools alongside with the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), shows many signs of much simpler database and system integration than before. Presently, there are two approaches that are used for this, which have become very popular and they are the following:   Point-to-Point integration   In this type of applications...

Commercial off-the shelf software, easier known as COTS is the type of computer application that can be purchased at any computer retail store. Examples are most anti-virus programs, games and even computer utilities, such as word processors, database managers, spreadsheet creators and so on. COTS software is usually less expensive than custom created software. This is because it is designed to be used by millions of users worldwide. Since a lot...

System integration, also simply known as SI, is the process of putting in a new system, which can still relate and communicate with the previous system or systems, be it, or they, simple or exceedingly complicated. System integration is an arduous process, which needs a lot of setting up and development, and an implementation and optimization phase. The one objective of System integration is to solve the problems that are experienced, which...

Software migration, also known as computer migration, data migration or Personal Computer (PC) migration is moving the data and applications from one computer to another. The reasons can be because the user has either purchased a new computer, or the computers at the workplace have been upgraded to new systems. Due to the importance, or difficulty of replacing the original files and programs, the user prefer to have everything go with them to...