Integrating enterprise system has become an issue of sharing information rather than transforming information due to the increasing complexity and the heterogeneity of the applications. The transition from application centric to integration centric enterprise application integration (EAI) requires methods and technologies that will enable and facilitate the definition of shared information. The...

Increasingly Command and Control (C2) systems require the ability to respond to rapidly changing environments and intelligence. C2 systems must be agile, able to integrate new sources of information rapidly for enhanced situational awareness and response to real-time events. Data from varied sources across the world must be integrated and transformed into knowledge that can be leveraged. Machin...

An emerging trend in the engineering of complex systems is the use of component integration frameworks. Such a framework prescribes an architectural design that permits exible composition of thirdparty components into applications. A good example is Sun Microsystems' Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) framework, which supports objectoriented, distributed, enterprise-level applications, such as account ...

Even though SOA provides real contribution, it is not adequate to implement enterprise integration. There are still problems in the implementation of enterprise integration in SOA environment, they are 1) the absence of modeling language support, 2) the absence of guideline of the services implementation produced by services identification, and 3) service orchestration that uses only Web Servic...

Purpose – The need for an integrated enterprise-wide approach to management information pronounced data warehousing (DW) the “hot topic” of the early-to-mid-1990s. However, it became unfashionable in the late 1990s, with the widespread implementation of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. With ERP managers were led to believe that they would derive informational as well as operational b...

Since software integration research has yielded a variety of different concepts, we survey and discuss EAI (Enterprise Application Integration terminology, in the domain of the quality properties, known as Quality of Services (QoS) offered by the EAI middleware. The main goal of this work is to establish a correspondence or mapping between the ISO standard definitions and the terminology used i...

During the last decades of the 20 Century the main task of the IT-specialists was to develop applications supporting different business functions and processes. For today the enterprises are well equipped with IT-devices and applications but in most cases these run separately: in various business units, on different platforms and also they are working with data formed and stored in other ways. ...

A current major focus in the DoD involves the integration of information across the different military branches for operations. Network-centric information methods will enable efficiencies through the integration of best-of-breed software and hardware from each branch of the military, together with the latest advances from government laboratories and the private sector. Information merging will...

European Journal of Information Systems (2005) 14, 107–109. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000534 This special issue of the European Journal of Information Systems presents a diverse collection of papers that address the very important issue of Making Enterprise Systems Work. This issue is largely concerned with how technology can facilitate, support, and enable the automation and integration of th...

Providing a unified enterprise-wide data platform that feeds into consumer applications and meets the integration, analysis and reporting users’ requirements is a wish that often involves significant time and resource consumption. As an alternative to developing a data warehouse for physical integration of enterprise data, the article presents data virtualization technology. There are presented...