Here be dragons an integration shopping list

Application integration has become the ʹphilosopherʹs stoneʹ for many industrial companies. Many integration projects have succeeded in solving the problem they set themselves, but left the problem of integration unsolved. The integration of applications for a complex design environment is particularly rich in such projects. In the authorʹs experience, a broader view of integration is needed, and several complementary models of integration are described, together with a list of 12 different design issues that integration projects need to resolve. It is not claimed that a project covering all these features will succeed, but rather an absence of a feature is an indication that the project will fail.