Sustaining a fleet of configuration-controlled assets

A computer-implemented system for integrating a plurality of applications, the system comprising:

• an integration manager operative to manage the insertion and removal of applications to and from the plurality of applications;
• an integration gateway operative to interface reusable business transactions and the plurality of applications;
• one or more application adapters interfacing the plurality of applications with the integration gateway;
• and
• an intelligent transaction manager extract operative to extract and install reusable business transactions.

A computer program product comprising a computer-readable medium having control logic stored therein for causing a computer to sustaining a fleet of configuration-controlled assets, the control logic comprising computer-readable program code for causing the computer to:

• integrate a plurality of previously separate systems with reusable business transactions associated with managing a fleet of assets;
• receive operational data associated with at least one vehicle of the fleet;
• integrate the operational data per customer requirements;
• package and distribute the operational data to the plurality of systems;
• and
• install and distribute the operational data to one or more applications of the plurality of systems utilizing at least one of the reusable business transactions.

A system for sustaining a fleet of vehicles, the system comprising:

• a plurality of applications associated with the management of a fleet of mobile platforms;
• a plurality of logical subsystems, each of which associated with a respective one of the plurality of applications;
• and
• a plurality of gateways, each of which connects one of the plurality of applications to a respective one of the plurality of logical subsystems and converts the data flow between the applications and the subsystems.

A method for managing the insertion and removal of previously separate domain applications that have been integrated with one another, said method comprising:

• configuring an extended application interface to connect the domain applications together;
• providing a gateway operative to interface reusable transactions with the domain applications;
• operating a transaction manager to extract and install the reusable transactions;
• and
• implementing an application adapter for each new domain application to be added, with the application adapter configured to interface the new domain application to the extended application interface.