Relating Systems Integration to Knowledge Management (and other classes)

So I'm sitting in Knowledge Management class now, where Dr. Stucke is proctoring for Dr. Gallivan, who is stuck in China somewhere.  We're about to watch a YouTube video, so I figured this is a good time to blog instead of taking my customary nap.

I'm trying to link the Systems Integration class with the Knowledge Management class in my mind, maybe somebody has some ideas.

First, my definition of Knowledge Management (KM) is the art/science of linking up knowledge seekers with knowledge keepers.  This can be done through knowledge management systems (codification of knowledge, usually knowledge stored in a database, etc.), social knowledge management programs (personalization of knowledge, this can include email, conferences, IM), or knowledge in the community (like in blogs and social networking).

I think KM relates the most to Systems Integration ideas when the KM codification approach is used.  Here's how I think we can link KM with SI:

Let's say we want to make a database driven Intranet to hold and store knowledge, and we want to link or integrate the KM database with an employee database, perhaps using ETL on way to a data warehouse.  Well, whenever you are linking two databases, using ETL, or a data warehouse, we have moved into the realm of Systems Integration!

I was blogging to Asha about this on another posting - that really no matter what you're doing in Information Systems, that Systems Integration plays an important role.  Without integrating systems, you just have information systems silos that may be important by itself, but silos are very weak when information or data needs to be shared.

I never considered Systems Integration before this class, but now I see it everywhere, and it feels like a fog has been lifted.  Now the next time I'm dealing with a system or thinking about implementing a new system, I will think of how it will possibly need to be integrated later.

Anyway, the YouTube video is ending, I have to pay attention now.  Does anyone have any thoughts of how Systems Integration relates to their other classes?  Thanks!