A Case study on a service-based information systems integration in academic environment

Abstract

In corporate environments, we can find various information systems (IS), which need to communicate to each other to share and maintain data consistency. Academic environments (AE) are even more complex than corporate environments because they have several IS to help manage different aspects, such as restaurant and library, which need to have consistent data to work properly. Therefore, it is necessary to encounter a form to develop an integration among them and share common, trustworthy data. We present a case study on SOA-based architecture for IS integration within AE to keep data consistent through the systems, to monitor the communication, and to make the integration safe and manageable. We applied the proposal, and the results show that we can integrate, monitor, and manage different software systems and network services and permissions. The main contribution is a useful integration architecture for AE that must share trustworthy data among several, heterogeneous IS and network systems. In addition, a small team can implement and maintain this proposed architecture.