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This paper briefly reviews the state of enterprise system architecting (ESA) and concludes that assumptions of incremental technical evolution (overlaid by selective organizational changes such as mergers or business growth/failure) are a driving force for ESA design. The paper proposes that ESAs evolve through a punctuated view of development - that new capabilities arise because of environmental,...
Increasingly, collaborative activities in science are using the concept of virtual organization as an organizing principle. One benefit of viewing these collaborations from an organizational perspective is that there is a long history of studying how organizations can be structured to function effectively. Many of these organizational principles have been reflected in the design of enterprise architectures...
Aim at the characteristics of virtual enterprise general organization and operating, an organizational structure model of virtual enterprises was proposed, and the basic work process of virtual enterprise was extracted from the model. The workflow network structure model of virtual enterprise was put forward and the soundness of the model was analyzed by the introduction of SWF-net theory. Virtual...
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that can effectively reduce product cost, improve customer service experience, and increase enterprise competitiveness is one of the most significant information systems for Chinese enterprises. However, the successful implementation rate of ERP system is much lower than initially planned and many enterprises did not achieve their intended goals. There are...
Dynamism in business has led to leaner organizations and multi-tasking role expectations. Software project planning and analysis durations are shorter. Developers are expected to play a larger role in planning, analyzing, elaborating and defining requirements. Developerspsila current methodologies and tools provide weak support in this role. They are especially inadequate for relating to, and for...
The Open Distributed Processing Reference Model (ODP-RM) provides viewpoints and abstract infrastructure guidelines that can be used for a basis for enterprise architecture, especially for an inter-enterprise architecture. The ODP-RM does not prescribe methodology for modeling itself, but provides common vocabulary and focus for description. This paper performs a brief analysis of the ODP-RM (and...
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