Handbook of Enterprise Integration
Features
- Addresses systems integration technologies—including telecommunication infrastructure, software architectures, applications, and project management techniques
- Examines ways to leverage applications for successful customer relationships
- Details recent advances and best practices
- Supplies practical information on integration standards for integrated manufacturing, B2B, and international commerce
- Illustrates the state of the art with case studies and over 160 Figures and 40 Tables
- Includes an extensive list of reference articles and publications
Summary
Maintaining compatibility among all affected network and application interfaces of modern enterprise systems can quickly become costly and overwhelming. This handbook presents the knowledge and practical experience of a global group of experts from varying disciplines to help you plan and implement enterprise integration projects that respond to business needs quickly and are seamless to business users.
The Handbook of Enterprise Integration brings together the latest research and application results to provide infrastructure engineers, software engineers, software developers, system designers, and project managers with a clear and comprehensive understanding of systems integration technologies, architectures, applications, and project management techniques involved in enterprise system integration. The text includes coverage of mobile communications, standards for integrated manufacturing and e-commerce, RFID, Web-based systems, and complete service-oriented enterprise modeling and analysis.
Practitioners will benefit from insights on managing virtual teams as well as techniques for introducing complex technology into businesses. Covering best practices in enterprise systems integration, the text highlights applications across various business enterprises to help you:
- Bring together existing systems for business processes improvement
- Design and implement systems that can be reconfigured quickly and easily in response to evolving operational needs
- Establish procedures for achieving smooth migrations from legacy systems—with minimal disruption to existing operations
Complete with case studies, this book illustrates the current state of the art in the context of user requirements and integration and provides the up-to-date understanding required to manage today’s complex and interconnected systems.
Table of Contents
Figures
Tables
Introduction
Editor
Contributors
INTRODUCTORY CHAPTERS
Defining Systems Integration, M.H. Sherif
The Dawn of a New Ecosystem of Communications, R. Saracco
TECHNOLOGIES FOR NETWORKING, NETWORK MANAGEMENT, AND QUALITY ASSURANCE
Fundamentals of Enterprise Networks, M.Ulema
Next Generation Networks in Enterprises; K. Asatani
Mobile Middleware in Enterprise Systems, D. Bruneo, A. Puliafito, M. Scarpa, and A. Zaia
Secure Wireless Access to Services in Enterprise Networks, P. Bellavista, A. Corradi, and A. Toninelli
An Introduction to Network and Service Management, R. Boutaba and J. Xiao
Monitoring Quality of Service in Enterprise Multicast Networks, E. Al-Shaer
Platforms for Enterprise Servers, B. Kurt and Z. Cataltepe
Software Reliability and Risk Management, X. Zhang
SOFTWARE AND SERVICE ARCHITECTURES
Software Architectures for Enterprise Applications, Y. Doganata, L. Kozakov, and M. Jahn
Service-Oriented Enterprise Modeling and Analysis, C. Huemer, P. Liegl, R. Schuster, M. Zapletal, and B. Hofreiter
Granting Flexibility to Business Process Management, D. Bottazzi and R. Montanari
Architectures for Cross-Enterprise Business Integration, J.P. Müller, S. Roser, and B. Bauer
Enterprise Application Integration and Service-Oriented Architecture Integration Scenarios, B. Fricke and K. Turowski
Enterprise Applications
Integrating the Web and Enterprise Systems, C.-Y. Lin
Enterprise Systems Integration in Telecommunications, L. Lin and P. Lin
Leveraging Applications for Successful Customer Relationship, K. Naasz
Radio Frequency Identification Technology, M.-V. Bueno-Delgado, E. Egea-López, J. Vales-Alonso, and J. García-Haro
Radio-Frequency Identification Applications and Case Studies, D.A. Rodríguez-Silva, S. Costas-Rodríguez, F. Javier González-Castaño, and F. Gil-Castiñeira
Standards
Information Modeling in Production Management: The ISO 15531 MANDATE Standard, A.-F. Cutting-Decelle, J.-L. Barraud, B. Young, J.-J. Michel, and M. Bigand
Standards for International Trade and Enterprise Interoperability, G.L. Potgieser
Standards for Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce, M.H. Sherif
Management of Integration
Managing Implementation issues in Enterprise Resource Planning Projects, P. Kumar Dey, B. Clegg, and D. Bennett
Introducing Complex Technologies into the Enterprise: The Case of RFID, M. Bourgault and Y. Bendavid
Managing Virtual Project Teams: Recent Findings, N. Drouin, M. Bourgault, and C. Gervais
Salvaging Projects in Trouble, J.P. Murray
Conclusions
The Future of Enterprise System Integration, M.H. Sherif
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