Application Integration

• Hottest General Area in Intranet conference (after electronic commerce) was "application integration" -- linking the "ᡛ" separate major (SAP, PeopleSoft ..) applications (in typical large corporation) into a "grid"

  • linking marketing, sales, production units with multiple databases and some computing

• This is similar to classic multidisciplinary application in engineering design and manufacturing as in NASA Power Grid

• Image processing as in DoD MSTAR program using Khoros

• Largest opportunity of this type is perhaps SBA -- Simulation Based Acquisition -- which was major theme in recent ITEA (International Test and Evaluation) conference at ARL Aberdeen

• SBA is plausibly built on top of DMSO HLA/RTI (CORBA like) commodity standards

• MAPINT 98 Conference at ASC Dayton August 25-27 will discuss

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