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IT systems and their communications are an essential part in modern companies. Most of the time not a single integrated ERP system is used, but heterogeneous architectures. In many cases there are connections to legacy systems, where valuable information is locked and a mass of communications in-between the interfaces of these systems and to other systems take place. We provide a new approach to deal with the data flow in a system landscape and try through this paper to clarify how to clean up the communication structure in order to deliver a less complex landscape and to reduce the interfaces’ maintenance. The communication structure will be presented as a graph. Later on we use two approaches to deal with this graph. The GRIPP approach answers the reachability of one node from another node in a graph while the Enterprise Tomograph approach helps to find the delta between two graphs.
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Balloul, L., Gómez, J.M. (2010). Interface Life Cycle Management for Legacy System Landscape. In: Quintela Varajão, J.E., Cruz-Cunha, M.M., Putnik, G.D., Trigo, A. (eds) ENTERprise Information Systems. CENTERIS 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 109. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16402-6_43
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