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...

Enterprise Integration Patterns are a collection of widely used patterns for integrating enterprise applications and business processes. These patterns informally represent typical design decisions for connecting enterprise applications. For the set of patterns collected by Hohpe and Woolf in “Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions” we presented ...

Enterprise informatization is a large system including: input, output, feedback, operation inside, executive action and incentive measures. Inner-enterprise can be seemed as an artificially social organization unit composing of various agents in a rigid formation. This paper mainly proposes an enterprise informatization associated with rigid formation theory of multi-agent. The connection betwe...

With unexampled advantages, E-business has developed quickly, and enterprises should have to grasp this opportunity. At present, the problems about expanding the enterprise exports by E-business mainly include that the innovation of international trade enterprise mode in the E-business environment is deficient, the informationization level of enterprise should be further enhanced, the senior E-...

The chapter discusses both the complementary factors and contradictions of adoption ERP-based systems with Enterprise 2.0. ERP is well known as IT’s efficient business process management. Enterprise 2.0 supports flexible business process management, informal, and less structured interactions. Traditional studies indicate efficiency and flexibility may seem incompatible because they are differen...

Developing applications that properly support the enterprise is a difficult task. Failing to perform this task results in applications that are not accepted by the end-users and that frustrate daily conduct of business. In this paper we introduce a formal yet practical method that helps to design componentbased applications that properly support the enterprise. The method can be used to verify ...

Increasingly, organizations make use of enterprise architectures to direct the development of the enterprise as a whole and its IT portfolio in particular. In this paper we investigate the regulative nature of enterprise architecture. We aim to develop a fundamental understanding of the regulative needs that underly an enterprise architecture, and then take these needs as a starting point to ar...

Enterprise information systems need to leverage enterprise knowledge management methodologies and tools to formally manage and capitalise on enterprise-wide knowledge resources. In this paper, we propose a novel knowledge creation methodology, together with its computational implementation, to (a) capture tacit knowledge possessed by domain experts in an enterprise; and (b) crystallize the capt...

This paper presents an overview of S2AEA (v2) (Strategic Alignment Assessment based on Enterprise Architecture (version2)), a platform for modelling enterprise architecture and for assessing strategic alignment based on internal enterprise architecture metrics. The idea of the platform is based on the fact that enterprise architecture provides a structure for business processes and information ...

The paper presents approach towards Knowledgebased Enterprise (KBE) modeling framework development. The concept of KBE model is based on control view, and modified IT Strategic Alignment Model and modified Porter’s Value Chain model (VCM). The Knowledge base together with explicitly defined knowledge management activity is concerned as the major component of the knowledge-based Enterprise. Know...