The nature of the enterprise and working is rapidly changing. Recognizing the enabling competitive advantage of new social and participative technologies will transform the enterprise. Web 2.0 is the foundation of the new Enterprise 2.0. By accessing the right information at the right time, Enterprise 2.0, through a web of interconnected applications, services, and devices, provides capabilitie...

During the past decade, many enterprises have been re-directing their resources into critical business areas to keep up with economic and market changes. They have adopted electronic business (EB) systems, such as supply chain management, enterprise resource planning (ERP), and enterprise application integration (EAI), to ensure seamless integration with internal processes as well as suppliers ...

This paper proposes a framework that can be used to explain and improve enterprise integration practices. It draws on the traditions of quality management and organizational learning to understand how implementation of advanced information technologies such as enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management may be explained and improved. Enterprise systems implementations at t...

This paper proposes a prototype multi-agent enterprise resource planning (MAERP) system that utilizes the characteristics and capabilities of software agents to achieve enterprise wide integration. A software agent is a self-contained, autonomous software module that performs assigned tasks from the human user and interacts/communicates with other applications and other software agents in diffe...

Business needs have driven the design, development, and use of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. Intra-enterprise integration was a driving force in the design, development, and use of early ERP systems, but increased globalization, intense competition, and technological change have shifted to focus to inter-enterprise integration. Current and evolving ERP systems thus reflect the exp...

The paper presents the opportunities given by the Semantic Web technologies for the enterprise integration in the context of development of e-business software applications. Introduction In any enterprise, there are certain “IT-oriented islands” – legacy applications, database management systems (e.g., database relational management systems), client programs, etc. – hard to be incorporated in a...

Organizations have invested a considerable amount of resources in the implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Business Intelligence (BI) systems. In today’s competitive environment within the context of complex BI and ERP, these systems have become key strategic tools, which directly impact on the success of any project implementation. But little attention has been given for th...

In recent years, social enterprises have developed by leaps and bounds, involving more fields with a profound impact in the sector of national non-governmental public welfare. However, development China is still initial stage, encountering challenges such as legal legitimacy, moral cognitive legitimacy. The purpose this paper to review concept enterprises, analyze implementation “New Citizen Pl...

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) are very important for the external growth of companies and tend to have a very high profile in the media. The recent proposed acquisition of Yahoo by Microsoft is a case in point. However, research in finance has shown that many M&A initiatives fail in terms of the expected financial outcome. The reasons for failure include cultural problems and a lack of operati...

In the traditional sense, IT has often been viewed as a contributor to waste within lean production. However, as the business world changes and competition from low-cost countries increases, new models must be developed which deliver competitive advantage by combining contemporary technological advances with the lean paradigm. By applying an action research approach, this paper evaluates the su...