Cloud computing allows enterprises to incorporate applications and computational resources as services, thus, can concentrate on their business processes, without concerning the development, configuration maintenance of these resources. Integration platforms are one services that allow integrate in order reduce costs operations integration on-premises platforms. However, high performance offere...

This paper explains how we have designed a service-oriented architecture by combining and extending several open source environments. We show how the IT architecture of the National Family Benefits Fund in Luxembourg got systematically modernized by solving issues related to Enterprise Application Integration, before introducing concepts like Enterprise Service Bus which was extended to offer s...

Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) technology has emerged to overcome integration problems at different levels such as process and data. Although, many public and private organisations have successfully implemented EAI solutions, the adoption of EAI in healthcare organisations is slow and problematic. The research that has been published in this area remains limited and has mainly focused...

Als illustrierende Beispiele dienen einige große betriebswirtschaftliche Informationssysteme sowie Framework-und EAI-Projekte.

The Virtual Enterprise model relies on dynamically reconfigurable collaborative networks, with extremely high performances, strongly timeoriented while highly focused on cost and quality, in permanent alignment with the market, and strongly supported by information and communication technology. Networking and reconfiguration dynamics are the main characteristics of this model, which claim for e...

This chapter describes an architecture for the eMarketplace that integrates the interests of autonomous enterprises in a single open-market environment. The environment encompasses several systems and business issues, such as the many-to-many relationships between customers and suppliers, systems, and business-related services. The architecture for this integrated environment is business-centri...