An individual or organization that builds systems from a variety of diverse components. With increasing complexity of technology, more customers want complete solutions to information problems, ...

Editor’s Note: This month we take a dive into our vault, revisiting the Building Automation column that was printed five years ago, in August 2017, by longtime Engineered Systems columnist Ira ...

A system that has combined different functions together in order to work as one entity. See integration. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

As state and local governments rely more on information technology to deliver better services and improve efficiency, they have turned increasingly to systems integrators to design and deploy their ...

A variety of individual expectations around functionality and results often surrounds digital transformation programs. While the technology and software play vital roles in the program, they are not ...

Last month in Dallas, the Security Industry Association (SIA) and PSA hosted the Cyber Secured Forum, an event that spotlighted the converging worlds of physical and cybersecurity and those solutions ...

First published in 2000. As told by Chris Monchinski, 2019–20 Vice President, ISA Standards & Practices Department. ISA-95 from its inception sought to solve an important issue in our industry: ...

My first encounter with enterprise integration dates back to the early 2000s. Remember those days when Enterprise Service Buses (ESB) emerged as the antidote to the convoluted labyrinth of closely ...