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 Reardens OnDemand Biz Services Source: InfoWorld