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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.

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.

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