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Imagine a hypothetical scenario of a business transferring funds from an overseas bank account to their supplier in India. The transfer takes place without the appropriate conversion between the foreign currency and Indian Rupees. Or a landlord, dealing with two different municipal departments, suddenly finding his property tax rates shooting through the roof because one department’s system recorded the extent of his property in square meters whilst the other ‘sent’ the value in square feet! Though these examples are hypothetical, they illustrate the consequences of IT systems failing to ‘communicate’ or ‘interoperate’ with each other.
http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20070402/technology03.shtml
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You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw