1. MD240 Management Information Systems Nov. 29, 2005 Technologies for Intra-Organization Systems Integration: From EDI to the Programmable Web

2. 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

3. 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, …

6. southwestairlines.com dollar.com alamo.com hertz.com Inter-Firm Web Services

10. Rearden’s OnDemand Biz Services Source: InfoWorld