The major characteristics of ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) are an enterprise-wide system that covers all the business functions and information resources, integrated database, built-in best industry practice, packaged software and open architecture. ERP enables reduction of system development time, flexibility, standardization of workflow and effective business planning capability. ERP is ...

The world economy has revived since the dot-com bubble burst and the crisis of the millennium. Many enterprises are re-directing their resources into critical business areas to keep up with extrinsic changes. They adopt supply chain management (SCM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) to ensure seamless integration with suppliers and customers, or enterprise application integration (EAI) to ...

Enterprise computing often takes the form of automation islands, and lots of business operations must be built on these islands. Then reusing existing components and creating integrated, flexible, reliable applications which can be combined for maximum productivity have become the imperative for an enterprise to survive and thrive in the new competitive and dynamic business environment. In the ...

In today's world with companies operating in a global business environment. Most enterprises, and especially the SMEs, lack the necessary business culture, technical and non-technical infrastructure and economic flexibility in order to efficiently adjust to the environment of a B2B integration framework. This paper proposes an Enterprise Integration Assessment Framework (EIAF) and its support s...

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 ...

In the vision of an Internet of Services (Janiesch et al. 2008, S. 71-75), services will become tradable similar to manufactured goods. Organizations dynamically interact as service consumers and service providers making use of a service marketplace to design, offer and consume services. With the emergence of such service ecosystems (Barros and Dumas 2006, S. 31-37), the simplified consumption ...

The case company of this research is a well-known enterprise in manufacturing precision locknuts in Taiwan. Due to the demand of enterprise application integration, the case company plan to implement enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. In order to realize the effectiveness of ERP introduction, this study applied balanced scorecard (BSC) approach to evaluate the critical performance of ER...

In this paper we propose a solution to integrate Immigration related Enterprise applications of various countries to communicate with each other. For this communication to take place we need to provide a rule based routing and mediation engine using Enterprise integration patterns. We have used an open source implementation of Enterprise integration patterns which provides a basic framework for...

This paper aims to examine conditions under which investment in enterprise resource planning (ERP) has a positive influence on business performance. Our empirical analysis on Korean firms that invested in ERP systems reveals how organizational integration modes need to be aligned with ERP systems for positive results from the ERP investment. Organizational integration modes refer to simultaneou...

This report is a review of work published in various journals on the topics of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) between 2005 and 28 May, 2010. A total of 154 articles from 49 journals were reviewed. This report intends to serve two goals. First, it will be useful to researchers who are interested in understanding and following the recent trends in the area of ERP. Finally, this report will be...