Enterprise integration lessons learned

Abstract

This document describes the lessons learned from a United States Navy enterprise integration initiative called Web Enabled Navy (WEN). WEN was initiated in April 2001 with the foci of integrating navy resources and providing a single-point-of-access, Web environment to all business and operational applications. The navy's applications operate within a complex network environment that spans commands afloat, ashore, and overseas. The challenges addressed are similar to those faced by large, multi-national corporations and include some unusual characteristics including islands of intermittently, bandwidth-limited, connected information consumers. Both technical and management lessons learned will be described and denoted as either prerequisite or success factors.