A current major focus in the DoD involves the integration of information across the different military branches for operations. Network-centric information methods will enable efficiencies through the integration of best-of-breed software and hardware from each branch of the military, together with the latest advances from government laboratories and the private sector. Information merging will...

AbstrAct In this chapter, we focus the role of information systems (IS) integration in the context of corporate mergers and acquisitions (M&As). We address the domain from a management perspective and especially target the consequences IS integration has for the acquisition initiative. Based on a literature review, the chapter presents a framework for describing, explaining and managing IS inte...

background: conventional health, safety and environment (hse) are a widely used approach to enhance availability and efficiency of complex systems. the integrated hsee system is defined however as integration of conventional hse with ergonomics approach. the presented hsee system introduces a unique, effective and systemic mechanism, which integrates the structure of the human and organizationa...

Enterprise information systems often face difficulties in linking various components and external systems. Interoperability among collaborating participants is hard to tackle in both business and IT domains. These call for effective architectural solutions that coordinate powerful technologies with business applications to enable seamless inter-organizational integration. The inter-organization...

The Composite Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at MIT is involved in research on the strategic, organizational and technical aspects of the integration of multiple heterogeneous database systems. In this paper we examine the scope of the work being done at CISL. Certain research efforts in the technical areas of system integration are emphasized; in particular semantic aspects of the integ...

Little research effort has been put forward to understand the advances in Information Technology (IT) as a social phenomenon, influenced by organizational changes. Consequently, a clear answer has not yet been found about which organizational and information system variables relate with each other and most importantly why that relationship occurs. This research is an attempt to fill in the blan...