1st Edition

Handbook of Enterprise Integration

By Mostafa Hashem Sherif Copyright 2010
    728 Pages 169 B/W Illustrations
    by Auerbach Publications

    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.

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    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

    Index

    Biography

    Mostafa Hashem Sherif