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IS 211 System Infrastructure and Integration

ISAGANI M. AGUDO, M.A., MMIT Instructor

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Information system
Information system infrastructure and architecture A well-designed information system rests on a coherent foundation that supports responsive changeand, thus, the organizations agilityas new business or administrative initiatives arise. Known as the information system infrastructure, the foundation consists of core telecommunications networks, databases and data warehouses, software, hardware, and procedures managed by various specialists. With business globalization, an organizations infrastructure often crosses many national boundaries. Establishing and maintaining such a complex infrastructure requires extensive planning and consistent implementation to handle strategic corporate initiatives, transformations, mergers, and acquisitions. Information system infrastructure should be established in order to create meaningful options for future.
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telecommunications network
Is an electronic system of links and switches, and the controls that govern their operation, that allows for data transfer and exchange among multiple users. When several users of telecommunications media wish to communicate with one another, they must be organized into some form of network. In theory, each user can be given a direct point-to-point link to all the other users in what is known as a fully connected topology (similar to the connections employed in the earliest days of telephony), but in practice this technique is impractical and expensiveespecially for a large and dispersed network. Furthermore, the method is inefficient, ... (100 of 1,863 words)
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database
It is also called electronic database, any collection of data, or information, that is specially organized for rapid search and retrieval by a computer. Databases are structured to facilitate the storage, retrieval, modification, and deletion of data in conjunction with various data-processing operations. A database management system (DBMS) extracts information from the database in response to queries. A brief treatment of databases follows. For full treatment, see computer science: Information systems and databases; information processing. A database is stored as a file or a set of files on magnetic disk or tape, optical disk, or some other secondary storage ...
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software
instructions that tell a computer what to do. Software comprises the entire set of programs, procedures, and routines associated with the operation of a computer system. The term was coined to differentiate these instructions from hardwarei.e., the physical components of a computer system. A set of instructions that directs a computers hardware to perform a task is called a program, or software program. The two main types of software are system software and application software. System software controls a computers internal functioning, chiefly through an operating system, and also controls such peripherals as monitors, printers, and storage devices.
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hardware
Computer machinery and equipment, including memory, cabling, power supply, peripheral devices, and circuit boards. Computer operation requires both hardware and software. Hardware design specifies a computers capability; software instructs the computer on what to do. The advent of microprocessors in the late 1970s led to much smaller hardware assemblies and accelerated the proliferation of computers. Todays personal computers are as powerful as the early mainframes, while mainframes are now smaller and have vastly more computing power than the early models.
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Infrastructure
is basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function. It can be generally defined as the set of interconnected structural elements that provide framework supporting an entire structure of development. It is an important term for judging a country or region's development.

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 The term typically refers to the technical structures that support a society, such as roads, bridges, water supply, sewers, electrical grids, telecommunications, and so forth, and can be defined as "the physical components of interrelated systems providing commodities and services essential to enable, sustain, or enhance societal living conditions.

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 Viewed functionally, infrastructure facilitates the production of goods and services, and also the distribution of finished products to markets, as well as basic social services such as schools and hospitals; for example, roads enable the transport of raw materials to a factory. In military parlance, the term refers to the buildings and permanent installations necessary for the support, redeployment, and operation of military forces. To make it simple, infrastructure is anything that is needed everyday, an everyday item.
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Systems Infrastructure and Integration

Increasingly, computing addresses collaboration, data sharing, cycle sharing, and other modes of interaction that involve distributed resources. This trend results in an increased focus on the interconnection of systems both within and across enterprises. Furthermore, organizations are realizing that they can achieve significant cost savings by outsourcing non-essential elements of their IT environment to various forms of service providers. Enterprises require an increasingly robust IT infrastructure to handle the unpredictability and rapid growth associated with e-business applications.
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 We are considered subject matter experts in bringing together the component subsystems into one system and ensuring that the subsystems function together as a system by linking together different computing systems and software applications physically or functionally, to act as a coordinated whole. Forte's infrastructure and integration teams provide an objective and efficient means to get the systems and information you need to make your workplace investments work for you, now and well into the future. Whether your projects require upgrading existing systems and equipment, building offices from scratch, or implementing networks and software applications across the corporation, our integration services team can work with you to design, install, deploy and manage systems that work together and work to your organization's advantage.
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 Forte is world-class in its ability to deliver network design and implementation of large scale, complex wired and wireless solutions, as well as the ability to build outdoor hardened solutions, physical security solutions, and integration of complex infrastructure components. Forte possesses unique experience in providing full-service, end-to-end network solutions in both wired and wireless environments. Our engineers have extensive experience in providing complex integration services and work closely with our clients' technology and business organizations to create network functionality that meets cost containment challenges, while addressing future needs for enhanced operational capabilities.
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 As software projects evolve, possibly differing in size, complexity, scope and purpose, the development processes that support the project must evolve to reflect these changes. For a distributed project, maintaining proper communications, coordinating between project stakeholders, and maintaining managerial control become increasingly important and, unfortunately, increasingly difficult. The Endeavors system is an open, distributed process modeling and execution infrastructure that addresses communication, coordination, and control issues. Complex processes may require:

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 (a) distribution of people and processes; event based and intermediate format integration of external tools; a low entry barrier through ease of use and incremental adoption; ability to customize and reuse objects, tools, and policies; and dynamic change of runtime processes, objects, and behaviors. Endeavors' solution architecture achieves these goals through application of five key design strategies:
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 (1) maintaining multiple object model layers; (2) implementing the architecture as a set of highly componentized, lightweight, transportable, concurrent elements; (3) providing customization capabilities for each layer of the object model; (4) using a reflexive object model to support dynamic change; and (5) allowing dynamic loading and changing of objects including loading of executable handlers, new object types, and extensions. We discuss these goals and design strategies, describe the architecture, and describe the current status of the project and its relevance to its own development.
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