Traditional integration practices like Enterprise Application Integration and Enterprise Information Integration approaches typically focus on the application layer and the data layer in software systems, i.e., on limited and specific development aspects. Current web mashup practices, instead, show that there is also a concrete need for (i) integration at the presentation layer and (ii) integra...

The Internet is the underlying network infrastructure that will allow enterprises to create new business structures and to reconfigure existing ones. This trend, which is known as business networking, requires enterprises to be able to integrate and coordinate business processes that extend across autonomous business partners. Traditionally, the problem of integration has been addressed by the ...

There is a need to create world-class medical infrastructure in India and to make it more accessible and affordable to a large cross section of our people. With this intent, this paper attempts to present software design patterns for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and its related technologies for integrating both intra and inter enterprise stovepipe applications in healthcare enterprise to...

In order to remain competitive, the integration of their information systems is an imperative for many large organisations. Applications that originally have been developed independently are now required to interoperate to support new or different functions of the enterprise. Although the mechanisms for application interoperation exist provided by the technology, due to the sheer number and com...

In the dynamically moving context of mass-customization of products, new manufacturing control architectures, based on the consideration of highly distributed, autonomous, adaptable and efficiently cooperating units integrated by a plug-and-operate approach, seem to be efficient alternatives. Amongst them, the concept of a product-driven distributed control promotes an active role of the produc...

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Enterprise integration in a manufacturing environment can give way to new possibilities that allow a company to prosper and stay current with what customers want. EA is a structured framework with each company moving through the 4 stages, which are business silos, technology standardization, core-business optimization, and business modularity. ERP, IERP, and SCM software has allowed manufacturi...

Organizations are challenged with rapidly changing business requirements and an ever-increasing volume respectively variety of information. Enterprise Architecture (EA) and its respective management function are considered as means to overcome these challenges. Appropriate tool support to this end is an elementary success factor to guide the EA management (EAM) initiative. Nevertheless, practit...

This paper addresses the issue of integrating agents with a variety of external resources and services, as found in enterprise computing environments. We propose an approach for interfacing agents and existing message routing and mediation engines based on the endpoint concept from the enterprise integration patterns of Hohpe and Woolf. A design for agent endpoints is presented, and an architec...

Data integration in large enterprises is a crucial but at the same time costly, long lasting and challenging problem. While business-critical information is often already gathered in integrated information systems, such as ERP, CRM and SCM systems, the integration of these systems itself as well as the integration with the abundance of other information sources is still a major challenge. In th...