Advances in Enterprise Information Systems II – Møller & Chaudhry (eds)
© 2012 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-0-415-63131-0
Optimistic integration of Enterprise Information Systems
Jochen Kokemüller
Fraunhofer IAO, Stuttgart, Germany
ABSTRACT: The integration of Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) is one of the most impor-
tant, yet challenging tasks. Unfortunately, there is very few IT-integration implemented by small
and medium sized enterprises (SME). In the analysis of SME B2B Integration literature we identify
three important inhibitors: high costs, lack of adequate consultancy modes, and unsuitable techni-
cal structures. We thus design the paradigm of optimistic integration and show how it is applied in
a novel loosely coupled integration ...