Software Integration Quotes & Sayings

Every company is becoming a software company because the products that people are using have some element of software in them," says Jim DuBois, CIO of Microsoft. "This makes the integration between IT and the product organization much more important for disruptive breakthroughs; there is very little that IT or product can do alone. — Martha Heller

It wasn't until the Apple Macintosh that people understood what true hardware-software integration was about. It took one company to line it up: low-cost hardware, cool graphics, third-party products built on top of it, in an all-in-one attractive package that was accessible to consumer marketing. — Tony Fadell

Continuous Integration is a software development practice where members of a team integrate their work frequently, usually each person integrates at least daily - leading to multiple integrations per day. Each integration is verified by an automated build (including test) to detect integration errors as quickly as possible. Many teams find that this approach leads to significantly reduced integration problems and allows a team to develop cohesive software more rapidly. — Martin Fowler