by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
Here is another term that people tend to confuse in the world of building and using systems.<\/strong><\/p>\n I can connect my Panasonic camera to my Apple computer quite easily. Both systems have USB ports. I simply connect the two with a standard USB cable. Wow! Magic!<\/p>\n Who cares?<\/p>\n Now lets consider connecting my Panasonic camera to a new Apple computer that has a USB-C port. Uh, well, look on Google for a gadget that converts USB to USB-C. Right?<\/p>\n Suppose such a converter doesn’t exist, now I have to do systems integration. I get a USB cable and a USB-C cable and cut both of them to expose the wires. I use a little circuit board to connect the correct wires from each cable to one another. I write a device driver for the new Apple computer to understand what is coming across those wires through my custom-made interface board.<\/p>\n That is systems integration: I have integrated or connected two systems that were not built to connect. I made new hardware, software, or both so that the systems would work together. The word new<\/em> is key. I built something new<\/em> so that systems would function together.<\/p>\n Installing software on a server without writing new software to make it work, is not systems integration. Connecting any set of devices via USB cables is not systems integration.<\/p>\n Let us use our terms correctly. We are good enough to do such.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips Here is another term that people tend to confuse in the world of building and using systems. I can connect my Panasonic camera to my Apple computer quite easily. Both systems have USB ports. I simply connect the two with a standard USB cable. Wow! Magic! Who cares? Now lets consider connecting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,58],"tags":[154,178],"class_list":["post-1942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-systems","tag-communication","tag-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1943,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions\/1943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}