Business Merger and Acquisition Software Integration Plan: It happens all the time. A large healthcare provider acquires a new hospital and is faced with the daunting task of integrating the hospital subsystems with its corporate systems. Or, a mature technology company realizes it needs to integrate a legacy system to unlock its hidden data or functionality. These are but a couple of examples of the challenges posed by systems integration. Learn about the challenges and issues of business mergers and acquisitions including legacy system integration and software integration.

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It happens all the time. A large healthcare provider acquires a new hospital and is faced with the daunting task of integrating the hospital subsystems with its corporate systems. Or, a mature technology company realizes it needs to integrate a legacy system to unlock its hidden data or functionality. These are but a couple of examples of the challenges posed by systems integration.

In fact, lost in all the talk about the promise of Web services built on a service-oriented architecture (SOA) is the reality that few companies have well-behaved, homogeneous IT environments. And before companies can realize the benefits and efficiencies that come with reusable Web services, they first need to integrate the systems they have inherited or acquired.