Advanced enterprise integration applications enable companies to leverage real-time information exchange between the business layer and the production layer to increase operational efficiency.

Mobile devices have enabled the development of a new breed of enterprise solutions. Oracle, SAP, IBM, and others are offering mobile clients (e.g. ERP, BI, CRM) for iPhone and Android devices. Nonetheless, in the field of workflow management systems (WfMS) the progresses do not support well mobile workers. In this paper we explore how metaphors can be used to drive the development of mobile wor...

The high potential of P2P infrastructures for enterprise services and applications both on the intranet (e.g. project workgroups) and on the Internet (e.g. B2B exchange) can be fully achieved provided that robust trust and security management systems are made available. This paper presents the reputation system we have devised for our P2P framework which supports secure rolebased peergroups and...

The emerging Semantic Web may change business integration from using partial, ad-hoc and costly connections to a qualitatively new level providing universal representation and transformation means for business terminologies, documents, business processes, services, and business models. Currently, the Semantic Web is based on representation languages like XML, RDF (Schema), and OIL, however it l...

In recent years, enterprise resource planning (ERP) project spending at organizations has absorbed the attention, budgets, and energy of information technology professionals worldwide. Enterprise application integration (EAI) is middleware (software that interconnects applications) that can parse, duplicate or transform data from an application to present it in an acceptable format for each app...

Enterprise Integration (EI) is the re-engineering of business processes and information systems to improve teamwork and co-ordination across organizational boundaries, thereby increasing the effectiveness of the enterprise as a whole. Starting from the needs for EI, and some identification of the state of the art, the paper tries to define a base for building consensus on the research issues. V...

Enterprises face a daunting challenge. As technology has evolved, the number of enterprise applications and data systems has multiplied rapidly. Organizations must implement new systems to keep pace with innovation yet continue to support and upgrade existing systems. As a result, most enterprise IT environments include many disparate systems not designed to interoperate. One efficient, cost-ef...

In this paper a set of successful Enterprise Application Integration projects are analyzed and common characteristics are identified. These characteristics are then distilled into a set of key success factors. The empirical foundation for this study is the active participation in a number of successful EAI projects, as a consequence thereof we classify the research method as action research. We...

This study aims to analyze the determinants of vertical integration (ownership and contract-ing) among peasant farmers in Northern Algeria. The choice of asset control is between ownership and a simple contracting. Thus, the integration of vertical stages of agricultural produc-tion leads to higher gross margins, influences the choice of marketing and supply channels, and improves market partic...