"The focus should be on the systems integrator, not the dress they are wearing that day." Contract management is another key area in systems integration that differs from more traditional IT projects.

Second, SOA, while also leveraging integration as a sub-pattern — and integration is a byproduct of SOA — is really about architecture, or at least it should be.

Are we getting good at cloud architecture, or do we still have ... all over the place via network-connected systems does not mean we should. ... integration, and enterprise architecture.