Two integration flavors in public institutions

  • Authors:

  • Vlad Diaconita;Iuliana Botha;Adela Bara;Ion Lungu;Manole Velicanu

  • Affiliations:

  • Economic Informatics Department, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania;Economic Informatics Department, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania;Economic Informatics Department, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania;Economic Informatics Department, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania;Economic Informatics Department, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania

  • Venue:
  • WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Integration within public institutions is useful in better aligning the IT with the core processes, but also helps the various parts of the business work with each other better, enabling important business strategies like straight-through processing, improved public service through singe-view-of-customer portals, business activity monitoring and higher data quality. Portals and SOA can help this integration occur. In time, portals have evolved to meet the integration needs of companies. Even though not taken very seriously, they have slowly become leaders in turning new principles into practical experiences. In the beginning, portals focused on aggregating, organizing, and indexing unstructured data, but modern portals now do much more. A portal is a point of integration, useful to the organization by integrating internal business processes and by offering information to the outside world. The increased adoption of business process management (BPM) and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) initiatives are both driving portal usage.