Software Systems In-House Integration Strategies Merge or Retire – Experiences from Indust.pdf

Software Systems In-House Integration Strategies: Merge or Retire – Experiences from Industry * # * * Rikard Land , Laurens Blankers , Stig Larsson , Ivica Crnkovic * Mälardalen University, Department of Computer Science and Electronics PO Box 883, SE-721 23 Västerås, Sweden {rikard.land, stig.larsson, ivica.crnkovic}@mdh.se #Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Mathematics and Computing Science PO Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, Netherlands l.blankers@student.tue.nl ABSTRACT 1. INTRODUCTION When an organization faces different types of collaboration, for example after a company merger, there is a need to consolidate Organizations have spent large sums of money on development of the existing in-house developed software. A main challenge is to software systems as part of their core business and want to select a suitable strategy, such as merging the systems, evolve one capitalize on their investment. At the same time reorganizations of the existing systems to be able to retire others, or start a new and mergers force the organizations to integrate their software development effort in order to retire the existing systems. This systems. This leads to a variety of problems such as functional shou