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Contracts as Trust Substitutes in Collaborative Business.

The article offers advice to corporate information technology officers on managing collaboration between computer systems as a result of mergers and acquisitions of different companies. Distributed computing through service-oriented architecture is one solution to the problem of interoperability. Th...

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Published in:Computer (00189162) Vol. 41; no. 7; pp. 80 - 84
Main Authors: Arenas, Alvaro, Wilson, Michael
Format: Article
Published: IEEE Jul2008
Subjects:
Computer architecture
Application service providers
Information technology
Distributed computing
Service level agreements
Computer systems
Mergers & acquisitions
Application software
Enterprise resource planning
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article offers advice to corporate information technology officers on managing collaboration between computer systems as a result of mergers and acquisitions of different companies. Distributed computing through service-oriented architecture is one solution to the problem of interoperability. The creation of service-level agreements between the managers of the separate systems, and means of monitoring compliance automatically are examined.