The highly competitive nature of the current business environment creates tremendous pressure for global company operations. To survive—and thrive—in these hypercompetitive markets, it is essential for a company to understand rapidly changing business circumstances. Global organizations strive for agility and flexibility in order to cope with rapid changes in both internal and external environm...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems were introduced into companies to solve various organisational problems, and to provide an integrated infrastructure. Although ERP packages offer advantages to enterprises, they have not achieved many of their anticipated benefits. Autonomous and heterogeneous applications co-exist in companies with ERP systems and integration problem having not been a...

This paper presents a novel method of using action-based planning for construction of enterprise integration solutions that utilize messaging technologies. More specifically, the presented method is able to generate a sequence of processing steps needed to transform input message flow(s) to specified output message flow(s), taking into account requirements in areas of throughput, availability, ...

This paper reports on research carried out in 1999-2001 on the use of e-business applications in SAPbased organisations. Structured interviews were used to collect data on eleven established organisations from a diverse range of industries. The findings are analysed according to the level of sophistication of e-business models. These early adopters of e-business show a trend towards cost reduct...

The workflow scheme plays a vital role in the development of business partnerships. Different organizations are included in this cross-organizational work flow. The workflow structure uses the business cases which enables the business integration. To carry out the processes, different security measures have to be imparted which set off workflow signature throughout each task. It provide commerc...

The importance of the post-merger integration (PMI) is derived from the fact that the value creation can only begin when the organizations begin to work towards the purpose of the acquisition. Besides merger, another source of radical change in a company’s life cycle is the implementation of an enterprise system (ES), such as ERP. Both mergers and acquisitions and enterprise systems implementat...

The manufacturing enterprises are now experiencing high pressure of competition. In addition, the advancement in computer software, hardware, networks, information technologies and integration has been gradually reshaping the manufacturing companies by shifting from the industrial age to the information and knowledge era. Due to these elevated competitiveness and advanced computer technology, a...

Enterprise architectures and integration is a crucial task for the public as well as private sectors. In particular, governments need to develop an overall architecture that captures the people, processes and technologies activities and specifies how all these activities will work with each other in a smooth and integrated manner. To succeed in egovernment, the architecture must be based on a s...

With the emergence of Web Services application vendors and organizations with heterogeneous software architectures have started to move towards Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs). In a SOA, software functionalities are represented as discoverable services that are accessed through a network. SOA is a promising approach for Enterprise Application Integration problems. As computing becomes ubi...

Global competition has forced manufacturing enterprises to collaborate together towards fulfilling market demands and satisfying customers. Through collaboration, enterprises will be able to share and effectively utilise their resources. A major challenge in implementing enterprise collaboration is based on the integration of heterogeneous hardware and software platforms. Service-oriented compu...