In recent years there has been an increased focus on improving the capability and flexibility of organisational information systems through improving, and where necessary, re-engineering inter and intra-organisational information flows. In doing so, many firms have realised that the cornerstone...

It is widely accepted that Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) can provide organizations with efficiency and productivity gains, in terms of aggregating and streamlining internal business processes. It is also well understood that embarking upon the implementation of such an IT project, also...

Architecting and implementing e-Business supply chain solutions across and within the modern day enterprise, is now becoming a necessity in order to maintain competitive and be adaptable to market needs. As such, the integration of information and processes is a vital step, using technologies...

In addressing enterprise integration problems, a diversityof technologies such as CORBA and XML werepromoted, yet no single integration technology solves allintegration problems. As a result, a new generation ofsoftware called Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)is emerging to addresses many...