The term enterprise modelling, synonymous with enterprise engineering, refers to methodologies developed for modelling activities, states, time, and cost within an enterprise architecture. They serve as a vehicle for evaluating and modelling activities resources etc. CIM OSA (Computer Integrated Manufacturing Open Systems Architecture) is a methodology for modelling computer integrated environm...

Companies try to seamlessly integrate all areas of their business by adopting technologies such as business process reengineering, supply chain management, ERP and customer relationship management in an attempt to address increasing global competition. ERP is still the most used technology for enterprise integration. This paper presents a six-level framework of ERP enterprise integration and de...

Enterprise design knowledge is currently descriptive, ad hoc, or pre-scientific. One reason for this state of affairs in enterprise design is that existing approaches lack an adequate specification of the terminology of the enterprise models, which leads to inconsistent interpretation and uses of knowledge. We use the formal enterprise models being developed as part of the Toronto Virtual Enter...

Experiences from enterprise-wide integration initiatives during more than four decades indicate that industry-wide information integration could render substantial benefits. Two ways in which industry-wide integration differs from enterprise-wide integration are that there is no common management level and the economic units in the integration are the constituent units, not the industry. Manage...

Mergers and acquisitions are important business strategy for growth. Many mergers and acquisitions have failed, however, due to a mismatch between strategic, organizational, and increasingly, information systems factors. Given that a large number of enterprise systems have been deployed in the last decade, their integration post merger is crucial to organizations that pursue mergers and acquisi...

Several middleware for grid computing have been proposed aiming at providing means to access resources in a uniform and secure way, hiding the idiosyncrasies of heterogeneous resources. In this work we present the Enterprise Grids from the Xgrid perspective and the Global Grids perspective from Gridbus. We also present the integration of Enterprise and Global Grids by proposing the integration ...

Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) are a collection of widely used stencils for integrating enterprise applications and business processes. These patterns represent a “de-facto” standard reference for design decisions when integrating enterprise applications. For each of these patterns we present the integration semantics (model) and the conceptual translation (syntax) to the Business Proces...

The paper takes the shipbuilding enterprise as the subject of study, analyzes the market pattern of world shipbuilding enterprise, presents shipbuilding virtual enterprise based on agile manufacturing according to the present situation and development trend of our shipbuilding enterprise, and describes the solution scheme of shipbuilding virtual enterprise information integration platform. The ...

Business-to-Business integration (B2Bi) is considered to be not merely an IT-issue, but also a business problem. This paper draws attention to the challenges companies within an Extended Enterprise are confronted with when integrating their systems. We primarily pay attention to coordination problems that may arise. To overcome these problems we propose the use of Enterprise Architecture descri...

Enterprise information systems, such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), have often been criticized for their rigidity. Alternatively, global, matrixed enterprises often follow a federated information systems approach. The first type of enterprises, which we call the standardized enterprises, lack flexibility, while the second type, which we call decentralized enterprises, lack visibility. T...