Enterprise architecture and integration methods, implementation, and technologies /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Lam, Wing Hong., Shankararaman, Venky.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2007.
• Subjects: Management information systems.; Business enterprises > Computer networks.; Information technology > Management.; Software architecture.; Application integration; Business process integration; Business process modeling; Development of integrative business applications; Dissolving organizational and technological silos; Enterprise application integration; Enterprise integration and process improvement; Implementing SOA; Information systems integration; Mobile working environments; Performance indicators; Process integration through hierarchical decomposition; Realizing the promise of RFID; Social matters; Success factors; Standards-based integration platform; Supply chain integration; Visual environment; Web services hybrid dynamic composition models
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"This book provides a detailed analysis of the important strategies for integrating IT systems into fields such as e-business and customer-relationship management. It supplies readers with a comprehensive survey of existing enterprise architecture and integration approaches, and presents case s...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Dissolving organisational and technological silos : an overview of enterprise integration concepts / Wing Lam and Venky Shankararaman
• 2. Success factors and performance indicators for enterprise application integration / Alexander Schwinn and Robert Winter
• 3. ... and the social matters / Amany R. Elbanna
• 4. Precontract challenges : two large system acquisition experiences / Ayça Tarhan, Çiğdem Gencel, and Onur Demirors
• 5. Process integration through hierarchical decomposition / Ayesha Manzer and Ali Dogru
• 6. Using a standards-based integration platform for improving B2B transactions / Andrew P. Ciganek, Marc N. Haines, William (Dave) Haseman, and Lin (Thomas) Ngo-Ye
• 7. The changing nature of business process modeling : implications for enterprise systems integration / Brian H. Cameron
• 8. Business process integration in a knowledge-intensive service industry / Chris Lawrence
• 9. A systematic approach for the development of integrative business applications / Michalis Anastasopoulos and Dirk Muthig
• 10. Visual environment for supply chain integration using Web Services / Guillermo Jiménez-Pérez and Javier Mijail Espadas-Pech
• 11. A framework for information systems integration in mobile working environments / Javier García-Guzmán, María-Isabel Sánchez-Segura, Antonio de Amescua-Seco, and Mariano Navarro
• 12. Enterprise application integration from the point of view of agent paradigm / Min-Jung Yoo
• 13. Web services hybrid dynamic composition models for enterprises / Taha Osman, Dhavalkumar Thakker, and David Al-Dabass
• 14. Case study : enterprise integration and process improvement / Randall E. Duran
• 15. Case study implementing SOA : methodology and best practices / Gokul Seshadri
• 16. Application integration : pilot project to implement a financial portfolio system in a Korean bank / So-Jung Lee and Wing Lam
• 17. Case study : service-oriented retail business information system / Sam Chung, Zachary Bylin, and Sergio Davalos
• 18. Realizing the promise of RFID : insights from early adopters and the future potential / Velan Thillairajah, Sanjay Gosain, and Dave Clarke.