Abstract
The fragmentation of current research activities in enterprise integration leads to multiple sub-solutions with many overlaps and even contradictions. This prevents potential users from employing the research results on a sufficient scale in their day-to-day operation and in turn reduces the interest of ICT1 vendors to invest in the necessary support technology for enterprise integration.
Starting from the needs for enterprise integration and discussion of the state of the art the paper tries to define a base for building consensus on the EI issues. The GERAM framework (IFAC/IFIP task force) is proposed for identifying the position and the relations of the different ongoing research activities in the area of enterprise engineering and integration (EEI). Discussions on tools and infrastructures complement this part allowing identification of the ICT requirements.
Last but not least the user community needs to become aware and accept enterprise integration. Only with a user community convinced of the benefits of enterprise integration will the ICT vendors invest in such a market and will all the many research and development efforts bear fruit.
The vision: Enterprise engineering and integration to support the enterprise operation in ist day-to-day decision making across the entire operation from customer order acceptance and asset management to customer support. EEI tools will link decision makers on all organisational levels to relevant and real time information across organisational boundaries. Such tools will enable new cooperation paradigms like extended and virtual enterprises to become reality on a broad scale and in the long run will support operation control and monitoring.
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Kosanke, K. (1997). Enterprise Integration — International Consensus: A Europe — USA Initiative. 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_8
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