Enterprise Integration and Information Architecture

Chapter 5

Information Architecture for Enterprise and Supply Chain

A New Discipline of Industrial Information Integration

Today’s business takes place in a collaborative environment. Collaboration can take a variety of forms, including intra- and interorganizational collaborations. To realize the collaboration, enterprises recognize the necessity to implement integrated enterprise systems, which can integrate their intra- and interorganizational business processes. During the past decade, enterprise systems have emerged as a promising tool for integrating and extending business functions and processes across the boundaries of organizations. In general, enterprise processes that were not designed as interoperable need to be integrated on an intra- ...