This means global organizations will have their systems
federated across the globe. All these systems will evolve due to constant innovation
and business changes. They have to integrate across the firewall, and not every
protocol and format can be easily traversed across the firewall.
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Organizations conduct business with other organizations. An online retailer's
system has to partner with its wholesaler's inventory systems. These systems are not
federated in any manner due to the fact that they belong to multiple organizations.
There exists no federation due to the competitive nature between organizations too.
But they have to collaborate; otherwise there is no business at all. So, information
has to flow across organizational systems in the Internet. This is what we mean by a
permeable organization boundary which allows for constant information exchange
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on 24 X 7 bases, with adequate Quality of Service (QOS) features. Thus the necessity
is to extend the enterprise over the edge (firewall), and this activity has to happen
based on pre-plans and not as an afterthought.
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