Today’s organizations consume an increasing share of their computing resources as computing services, using an ondemand model and paying only for what they use. They consume cloud business applications and processes, and store and analyze vast amounts of information on cloud provisioned resources. Cloud computing is dramatically reducing the capital required to support IT operations, while brin...

Received: 17 December 2007 Revised: 21 April 2008 2nd Revision: 11 March 2010 3rd Revision: 20 December 2011 Accepted: 8 February 2012 Abstract This paper, based on a cross-sectional empirical study of information system (IS) architectures within 143 small to medium enterprises (SMEs) in France, reports findings on how SMEs architect to achieve IS integration and interoperability. This research...

This paper describes PERA (the Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture) and shows its relationships to GERAM (the Generalized Enterprise Reference Architecture and Methodology). PERA was developed at Purdue University during the period 1989-94. GERAM was developed by the IFAC/IFIP Task Force to illustrate that all “complete” enterprise reference architectures should map together and have compa...

This paper presents practical integration of enterprise Unified Communications system with telecommunication service provider Service Delivery Platform. System implemented in Orange Labs, enables sending SMS and USSD messages geo-localizing of user mobile terminal directly from user interface of Unified Communications system. This article presents also statement regarding further investigations...

Currently, the companies overcome its organization barriers stimulated by the necessity of market expansion, minimize the enterprise costs, search for competitive advantages and need to absorb the fast market changes. New forms of organizations arise and are called extended and agile enterprises with new factors to be observed in the implementation of the integrated systems such as enterprise r...

Enterprise Architecture defines the overall form and function of systems across an enterprise involving the stakeholders and providing a framework, standards and guidelines for project-specific architectures. Project-specific Architecture defines the form and function of the systems in a project or program, within the context of the enterprise as a whole with broad scope and business alignments...

There are currently multiple different classifications of product descriptions used in enterprise-internal applications and cross-enterprise applications, e.g. E-procurement systems. A key problem is the running of applications developed for one catalogue on product descriptions that are stored in a different classification. A common solution is that a catalogue specialist manually maps differe...

A performance measurement system (PMS) is a decision support system that through a set of indicators allows an analysis the current state of an enterprise and to compare it with the strategic objectives. It is therefore a fundamental tool for management control in business.

J2EE offers “Write Once, Run Anywhere” platform, and takes advantage of JDBC API for database access, CORBA technology for interaction with existing enterprise resources, a security model that protects data in Internet applications. Building on this foundation, J2EE offers Enterprise JavaBeans(EJB), JavaBeans, Java Servlets API, and JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology. Enterprise JavaBeans and Ja...

As every information system becomes connected to every other information system, they form the so-called "information utility". This is the domain in which contemporary distributed systems have to evolve. New applications have to be evolved on this platform of existing systems that may hold inconsistent information. Consequently, solutions have to be able work in a world of only partially corre...