Management systems: integration or addition?

Systems Integration and Knowledge Management

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Integration of management systems – Towards more sustainable management systems

The development of the standards for management systems such as ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 are moving towards a higher degree of compatibility. At the same time, organisations with more than one management system increasingly consider to or integrate these management systems. The paper discusses this development and presents different levels of integration. The aim is to suggest the ne...

Towards Inconsistency Management in Data Integration Systems

Architectural Integration Patterns for Autonomic Management Systems

Large-scale, dynamic, distributed and open autonomic systems pursuing multiple, possibly conflicting goals are difficult to design, implement and maintain. Dealing with the complex issues that such systems raise requires complex, adaptive management logic. This paper focuses on the integration of autonomic management resources as a key feature for building complex autonomic systems. This paper’...

Component Integration Technologies for Telecoms Management Systems

Because of the cost and complexity of building bespoke service management systems, telecommunications management developers are moving toward the use of off-the-shelf componentware to satisfy their management requirements. However, a crucial problem with such an approach is the ability to integrate components to realise integrated management solutions. This paper identifies the technology requi...