| The basic idea of software product integration is | | | | comprehensive guidelines for the software |
| to integrate all the separate components, | | | | product development companies for careful |
| combining them for a bigger working system. | | | | planning of product development, operation, |
| Reports say that the data integration tools | | | | maintenance and disposal stages of a product. It |
| market will grow to $2.2 billion by the year 2010. | | | | also considers health and environmental risks. |
| Product integration software solves the critical | | | | System integration and testing is one of the main |
| business problems for a company having various | | | | components of IEEE Std 1220-1998. |
| external interactions and systems that are used | | | | EIA-632: The main objective of this standard is to |
| by customers and stakeholders to complete | | | | provide software developers an overview of |
| multiple processes. | | | | processes that assist in engineering a system. |
| There are various practices, standards and | | | | The use of this standard would enable |
| models being followed in the software product | | | | development of requirements to enable delivery |
| integration market. Some of the best practices | | | | (of systems and solutions) in a cost-effective and |
| and models are discussed below: | | | | timely way. The various practices mentioned here |
| ISO/IEC 12207: The main objective of ISO/IEC | | | | guide the developers to plan and execute tasks |
| 12207 is to provide the software market with a | | | | so as to retain interest of all the stakeholders. |
| guideline for software life cycle process. It | | | | CMMI, version 1.1: CMMI or Capability Maturity |
| contains the various processes, tasks and models | | | | Model Integration focuses on the best practices |
| that constitute a software life cycle and thus help | | | | for product and systems engineering. The model |
| in the planning, development, operation and | | | | includes areas covering the full product life cycle |
| maintenance of the software products. It also | | | | and for product development, maintenance and |
| gives valuable guide for the acquisition, purchase | | | | operation. CMMI aims at process improvement |
| and supply of the software products, services | | | | and optimum utilization of resources. CMMI |
| and systems. ISO/IEC 12207 consists of two | | | | focuses on product integration, interface |
| parts. The first part is all about integration of | | | | comparability and assembling of the products and |
| software units or components into specific | | | | services to get optimum results. |
| software items that can be integrated into a | | | | Software product integration is the latest industry |
| bigger system. Second part consists of system | | | | buzzword to achieve that sustainable revenue and |
| integration tasks, to integrate the software into | | | | growth and it is going to gain importance in |
| the system and testing its viability. | | | | coming years. |
| IEEE Std 1220-1998: IEEE Std 1220-1998 provides | | | | |