In recent years enterprise integration has become an important theme in information systems research and practice. Enterprise integration pervades enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain management (SCM), and customer resource management (CRM) systems and applications. However, much IS research in this area seems to assume that enterprise integration is inevitable and that enterprise i...

SMEs are a primary driver of economic growth and in the European Union. Yet relatively little is known about how these organizations use information system resources to achieve interoperability and integration. This paper, based on a cross-sectional empirical study of IS architectural integration within 143 small to medium enterprises (SMEs) in France, reports findings on how SME organize and a...

Since the late 1990s, vendors of integrated management tools called ERPs (enterprise resource planning) have found their primary market, mainly large companies, is saturated. To find new customers, they have begun to market these products to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) (generally with about 100 to 500 employees) (Deep, Guttridge, Dani & Burns, 2007; Muscatello, Small & Chen, 2003). Howe...

The existing works point out that smaller organisations have been shown to have different technology adoption patterns than large ones. However, it is unclear whether Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) and large organisations take decisions for the adoption of integration technologies by focusing on different factors. Moreover, the literature also shows that there is an absence of theoret...

The paper proposes a Small-World Network Publish/ Subscribe (SWN-P/S) model in large-scale environment, which is a novel Event-based Middleware with Small-World Network (SWN) model. Through connecting brokers into a small world network, SWN-P/S achieves both a strong local clustering and a small average path length among vast brokers. These characteristics help to spread information through the...

Warehouse technology amasses teradata as the basis for Decision Support Systems (DSS). Key to knowledge formation is the organization and representation of such data. Identification of data structures enables the selection of decision support models. Use of object-classes with warehouse metadata allows creation of analytic frameworks. We discuss the production application of object-based SAS a...