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System integration and Socio-technical issues:
System Integration is process of bringing together the component sub-systems into one system and ensuring that the subsystems function together as a system.
System integration is particularly critical because it is at the integration stage that incompatibilities between the different sub-systems or components may come to light and generally the first view that a customer has of a system is after integration.
Socio-technical issue are generally present in socio-technical a system which consider requirements spanning hardware, software, personal, and community aspects and apply an understanding of the social structures, roles and rights to inform the design of systems that involve communities of people and technology and it is a dependable process and also reduces errors and avoid failure...
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