Island solution
An isolated solution is a problem solution that solves a special problem, but which is so special that it can no longer be changed to solve another, similar problem.
[ techn. ] As a stand-alone solution technical to systems designated that are effective only within its own borders and not with similar or related systems, the environment variables can interact or compatible are. The opposite of that is interoperability . Isolated solutions can also be found in nuclear power plants, so that manipulative external interference can be prevented.
Examples
One example of this is the Transrapid , which cannot use any of the facilities of other means of transport and cannot be used by them either. This also occurs with writing telephones for the deaf , which work within the telephone network , but can only interact with the same device on the intercom.
In the field of IT applications, too, there are those that were written as isolated solutions for special requirements, for example to support a specific process in a company. Often isolated solutions exist in a company from the early days of IT, when developers and companies lacked the experience for software that covered all tasks. In companies, isolated solutions have numerous disadvantages compared to integrated solutions, including what are known as media breaks when data is transferred .
In Germany this term became popular in connection with the introduction of the can deposit at the beginning of 2003. While petrol stations and small beverage stores in particular had come together under associations such as the P-System, large companies such as Aldi , Lidl and Plus had decided on isolated solutions, where you could only return the bottles bought from the respective retail chain there. As of May 1, 2006, such isolated solutions are no longer permitted. Every seller of one-way containers with a deposit must now also take them back, regardless of where they were bought.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Can deposit: goodbye isolated solutions. In: Stern.de. Retrieved July 24, 2015 .