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ICT-Support for Enterprise Integration — Where Are We?

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Enterprise Engineering and Integration

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Abstract

Globalisation of markets, enhancements in information and communication technology (ICT) and world-wide competition of companies have led to significant changes in the requirements of organisations for ICT-support. The need to enhance effectiveness and efficiency in enterprises and the need to be closer to the customers reanimates the topic of CIM in a broader sense. Companies are urged now to implement integrated but open solutions together with workflow support. This has to be closely coupled to what is called warehouse technology — the transparent access to distributed information. The resulting requirement is an integrated information and process support, based on heterogeneous distributed ICT-components. In this area a lot of effort has been made in the last decade on enterprise modelling and integration as a supporting technology for enterprise engineering. In this paper we try to give an overview about the status of ICT-support for enterprise integration (EI) with special focus on integrating architectures. Integrating architectures (or frameworks) describe software technologies to implement a development and execution platform for client/server applications, data and processes in distributed heterogeneous environments. Some thoughts about future research directions and exploitation actions will be presented as well.

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  1. CIMOSA Association, Stockholmer Str. 7, D-71034, Böblingen, Germany

    Kurt Kosanke

  2. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Bldg. 220, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899, USA

    James G. Nell

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Solte, D. (1997). ICT-Support for Enterprise Integration — Where Are We?. In: Kosanke, K., Nell, J.G. (eds) Enterprise Engineering and Integration. Research Reports Esprit. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60889-6_27

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