Interoperability

Interoperability is most often associated with software as a way to enable disparate software applications to work together. For example, interoperability makes it possible for a company to use applications from different vendors as if they were from a single vendor. Seamless sharing of function and information becomes possible.

Interoperability reduces or eliminates the problems of islands of automation. It enables business processes to flow from one application to another. Interoperability enables one system to work with another, in near real-time fashion, to share critical business information. Interoperability options become the glue between systems and applications.