While early cited benefits of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or enterprise systems remain for the most part highly desirable, it is often the case that the promise of delivery differs from reality. Many now agree that achieving enterprise systems benefits is complex, cumbersome, risky and expensive. Furthermore many ERP projects do not fully achieve expectations. This paper takes a critical...

today, the shortage of information about the different sections of organization is not the main challenges of managers and organizations. but, the ways to handle the huge amount of generated information for solving different problems of organization and decision making are main difficulties. information technology (it) can provide effective tools that help organizations to address such problem....

An enterprise cooperative environment is combination of emerging technologies and methodologies on which both enterprise employee and customers can perform necessary business activities. A business activity will involve many systems of an enterprise. Integration between those systems becomes a critical issue because inter-/intraenterprises will have heterogeneous systems. Recently, many new tec...

Enterprise Architecture (EA) has undergone many changes since the IT has found its way into enterprises. At the moment the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is being hyped but has also gained some importance. Implementing SOA can have many implications for an enterprise, depending on how visionary the implemented architecture is. This paper provides the description of an enterprise architectu...

Many of the challenges that the society faces today are enterprise problems. Enterprise systems consist of technological, organizational, and social elements where there is no locus of control. Due to the complex nature of enterprise systems, they are particularly difficult to model and analyze in support of policy analysis. There is a need for accessible methods and approaches to aid those tas...

This article presents a novel method and development paradigm that proposes a general template for an enterprise information structure and allows for the automatic generation and modification of enterprise workflows. This dynamically integrated workflow development approach utilises a conceptual ontology of domain processes and tasks, enterprise charts, and enterprise entities. It also suggests...

This article presents a novel method and development paradigm that proposes a general template for an enterprise information structure and allows for the automatic generation and modification of enterprise workflows. This dynamically integrated workflow development approach utilises a conceptual ontology of domain processes and tasks, enterprise charts, and enterprise entities. It also suggests...

The chapter discusses both the complementary factors and contradictions of adoption ERP-based systems with Enterprise 2.0. ERP is well known as IT’s efficient business process management. Enterprise 2.0 supports flexible business process management, informal, and less structured interactions. Traditional studies indicate efficiency and flexibility may seem incompatible because they are differen...

The Chinese Enterprise entered in the transnational enterprise and the supply chain by the way of OEM(original equipment manufacture), the things made in China like the electric appliance、 clothes、toy, the productions have occupied the important share in the global market, but this is still insufficient to cause the Chinese enterprise to enter the transnational enterprise's ranks ,because the C...

Enforcing correct reachability is crucial for an enterprise network to achieve access control, privacy, security and so on. Many sophisticated mechanisms such as router ACLs and firewalls have been developed to enforce the desired reachability. In addition, many other factors such as network dynamics can also impact the network reachability. Thus it is challenging to configure the reachability ...