INTRODUCTION With the rapid growth in the modern day enterprise comes explosion of information, diversity in formats and the sources where they are located. Present day Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Systems manage this disparity through what is known as Syntactic Integration. This is done through techniques like Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and Enterprise Information Integ...

In an eloquent article called "United We Stand," [1] Michael Stonebraker offered a viewpoint on the "islands of information" problem. He defined Enterprise Integration as ". . . the ability to read from and write to all of the applications and data sources across the enterprise." And he indicated: "Such integration supports unified views of information and lets you update synchronously across s...

Most of the enterprise operations require information from several systems within and outside the enterprise(s). The past few years have seen explosive growth in direct program to program interaction for application integration, removing manual steps yielding tremendous improvements in reliability and efficiency. This paper addresses the practical approach for the design and implementation of E...

Chapter Summary 1. Corporations grow, and as they grow the need for integration across the enterprise increases. Integration can be accomplished through various means. 2. Consistent with the theme of this book, the need for alignment – integration is really a business need, and the technology mechanisms won't help without the proper organizational structures, goals, and incentives. Both organiz...

We present a framework for enterprise engineering that encompasses the formalization of knowledge in an enterprise, its integration into a software tool, and the visualization of the enterprise.

Towards a Service-Oriented Enterprise: The Design of a Cloud Business Integration Platform in a Medium-Sized Manufacturing Enterprise Paul J. Stamas Syracuse University, 2013 This case study research followed the two-year transition of a medium-sized manufacturing firm towards a service-oriented enterprise. A service-oriented enterprise is an emerging architecture of the firm that leverages the...

Integration is a significant parameter that influences the success of ebusiness applications and supports organisations to achieve competitive advantage. Traditional approaches to interorganisational integration such as Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) have proved insufficient and complex. Recently, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) has emerged to address enterprise and cross enterprise...

A major aspect of complex Enterprise Architectures is the integration of existing heterogeneous IT-systems in a business process oriented way. Based on an empirical study the authors of the paper proved that there is no significant process orientation in information system integration projects today. Among other reasons this is due to deficits in mastering integration methodologies and technolo...

This paper presents an interoperability framework for enterprise applications and software systems. The framework provides a foundation for model-driven development of software systems supporting the business interoperability needs of an enterprise. This is achieved through a set of reference models that addresses interoperability issues for conceptual integration, technical integration and app...