The complexity of modern enterprises makes enterprise modeling a major issue. The need for integrating several different features requires a powerful modeling technique, such as CIMOSA, able to represent functional, control, informational and organizational aspects. However, the study of a system yields limited results as long as it only consists of inspecting a static model. More effective res...

To achieve greater automation of their business processes, organizations face the challenge of integrating disparate systems. In attempting to overcome this problem, organizations are turning to different kinds of enterprise integration. Implementing enterprise integration is a complex task involving both technological and business challenges and requires appropriate middleware technologies. Di...

The EECOMS Project is a multi-company and university joint effort to research and develop intelligent, dynamic technologies for integrating supplychain planning, scheduling, and execution and for enabling the evolution of such multi-enterprise integration solutions. In this paper, we describe several critical challenges to enterprise integration in the form of "lessons learned" by the Project i...

Understanding language always occurs within a situational context and, therefore, often implies combining streams of information from different domains and modalities. One such combination is that of spoken language and visual information, which are perceived together in a variety of ways during everyday communication. Here we investigate whether and how words and pictures differ in terms of th...

enterprise resource planning (erp) plays an important role in today’s enterprise management and is beginning to be the backbone of organizations and started working on the next-phase in the enterprise system life-cycle, referred to as erpii . implementation of erpii projects takes a considerable time and resources from the organization. therefore, it is essential that critical success factors (...

This paper discusses about methodologies for governing and managing projects of system integration, providing a new way of considering such projects’ lifecycle avoiding common pitfalls. In this work Authors provide an overview of common issues in complex IT projects, focusing in particular on criticalities derived from such projects and proposing simple solutions on the basis of experiences and...

In this paper we argue that there are two basic types of Business-toBusiness integration (B2Bi), each of which requires a different information systems development approach. A framework is set up to structure the development of intra and interorganizational systems. The framework has three dimensions, the first one showing business and ICT (Information and Communication Technology), the second ...

The integration of enterprises in a vertical market is not solved but rather facilitated by information technology. One aspect is the coupling of heterogeneous information systems from the participating enterprises. However, before this integration can be tackled, the enterprises have to create a common set of concepts to discuss their cooperation. We call this the inter-organizational concept ...

Im Zusammenspiel der betriebswirtschaftlichen und technischen Ebenen, wie ERP(Enterprise Resource Planning), MES(Manufacturing Execution System) und SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) / PCS(Process Control System) Systeme, bei Produktionsund / oder Logistikunternehmen ist durchaus von einer gewissen Integration zu sprechen. Es zeigt sich jedoch, dass es sich vielfach um eine techn...

WLAN-UMTS integration in the UMTS-based approach can be performed either at the UMTS Core Network (CN) or Radio Access Network (UTRAN). Both interworking solutions provide the operator with additional license-free bandwidth and promise good handover performance. Integration at the radio access level has the advantage that the UMTS core network protocols remain unaffected and the interworking ar...