Integration of Software-Intensive Systems (ISIS) Initiative: Addressing System-of-Systems Interoperability

Organizations face increasing demand for interoperability between individual systems. To help organizations, the Integration of Software-Intensive Systems (ISIS) Initiative develops and transitions methods and tools, including

• SoS Navigator capabilities to identify and understand the key dynamics for a given system-of-system environment
• Interoperable Acquisition guidance for acquisition in a system-of-systems context
• The Service Migration and Reuse Technique (SMART) to determine the feasibility of and build a plan for legacy system migration to a service-oriented architecture (SOA) environment
• The T-Check approach for context-based technology evaluation
• The web-based Guide to Interoperability to assist those who are planning, constructing, and maintaining interoperable systems of systems

In addition, ISIS conducts research into

• ways to measure the costs and risks of interoperable systems of systems
• the software implications of network-centric operations

Contact Us

Customer Engagements
Terry Dailey
Telephone: 703-908-8213
E-mail: etd@sei.cmu.edu

Technical Questions
Dennis Smith
Telephone: 412-268-6850
E-mail: dbs@sei.cmu.edu

ISIS News & Notes

NEW REPORTS!

• Service Migration and Reuse Technique
• SoS Navigator approach

Visit our SOA Information Center

Hearing only vendors' hype about SOA?

• Get a vendor-neutral view
• Watch a video overview

Now available—

• SOA workshops on strategy and governance
• Half-day Interoperable Acquisition Overview

Considering migrating to SOA? Then, check into this course from the SEI.

Get reports on these system-of-systems interoperability issues:

• What acquisition management information needs to be shared to achieve programmatic interoperability?
• Can WS-Security and SAML be used to create a single-sign on (SSO) solution for Web Services security?
• What conditions are needed to achieve network-centric operations?
• How did poor information exchange during acquisition phase affect cost and schedule?