An Enterprise Integration Methodology

Publication Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

3-2004

Abstract

As more and more organizations pursue the benefits of e-business, they are looking to a process called enterprise integration, or EI, as a key technical enabler in transforming their business processes. A typical form of EI is Webification; in this scenario, a company wants to offer its existing products and services over the Internet, so it builds Web front-end systems and integrates them to its backend legacy systems. (In this article, we use legacy system to mean any IT system already in operation.) A more complex El scenario involves enterprise application integration. By this process, the organization links up previously separate and isolated systems to give them greater leverage. For example, an organization might integrate a customer-relationship-management system, a call center system, and legacy customer account systems to give the organization a consolidated view of its customers. An emerging EI scenario is business-to-business (B2B) integration (also called extended enterprise models), which occurs when an organization integrates its own business processes with those of its business partners to improve efficiency within a collaborative value chain.

Discipline

Software Engineering

Research Areas

Software Systems

Publication

IEEE IT Professional

Volume

6

Issue

2

First Page

40

Last Page

48

ISSN

1520-9202

Identifier

10.1109/mitp.2004.1278864

Publisher

IEEE

Additional URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mitp.2004.1278864

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