One of the major challenges for European governments is to solve the dilemma of increasing the security and reducing fraud in international trade, while at the same time reducing the administrative burden for commercial as well as public administration organisations. To address these conflicting...

Introduction to business rules -- Business rules in practice -- Agile Business Rule Development -- Rule Harvesting -- Prototyping and Design -- Rule engine technology -- Issues in designing business rule applications -- IBM Websphere ILOG JRules -- Issues in rule authoring -- Rule authoring...

Noch immer besteht in der betriebswirtschaftlichen Theorie und Praxis eine Lücke zwischen der Organisations- und der IT-Systemgestaltung. Christian Horstmann stellt auf der Basis eines systemtheoretischen Ansatzes einen Zusammenhang zwischen der Integration und Flexibilität des...

This document presents the technological solutions supporting inter-organizational processes, as well as the leading suppliers on the market. Its purpose is not to present an "ideal"" architecture, but to sum up for the manager concepts usually used in technical outlets. The characteristics of...