Economic globalization has put pressure on companies to strive for cost reductions, increases in quality and shorter production cycles. Similar economic and technological trends have stimulated and determined the emergence of new management paradigms. Business process integration (BPI) is...

The purpose of this paper is to extend knowledge of enterprise architecture and the importance of the operating model of a firm through a Dynamic Capabilities perspective. First, the authors attempt to position Private Educational Institutions in an operating model. They propose a model that...

Organisations are facing a major transformation from application-based to service-oriented architecture. It is the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that are especially confronted with both the opportunity and increasing pressure to establish efficient business-to-business (b2b) integration...

With the growing number of marketplaces and trading partners in the e-commerce environment, software tools designed to act on behalf of human traders are increasingly being used to automate trading activities. This paper describes a model for constructing trading engines which are capable of...

Integration of enterprise applications (EAI) and e-business integration are time-consuming and expensive. This thesis proposes pattern mining to determine identical object classes. Processes are integrated based on declared integration goals and known software behavior. A model-driven approach...

Purpose - This paper analyses how manufacturers and transport-logistics service providers (TLSPs) work together and integrate their business processes. The information technologies used to support the integration, the processes currently integrated, and the expected future integration, are...