There are a number of reasons why we continuously change our enterprise
applications, but sometimes it's hard to explain to the requester why another
change would be so costly and time-consuming to implement. IT leaders who
want to be fully prepared for inevitable changes in the corporate software
infrastructure should do their best to avoid system coupling on both business
and technological levels.
A modern enterprise information system (EIS) consists of hordes of
applications bound together to support business activities in the enterprise.
The degree of application coupling identifies the difficulty of making
changes to them. Although coupling has been always used to describe the
connections between application's components, it can be also used to describe
relations ... (more)