eBusiness systems integration a systems perspect

Authors: Song Wang Ling Li Kanliang Wang James D Jones

Publish Date: 2012/04/17

Volume: 13, Issue: 4, Pages: 233-249

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Abstract

Systems science has emerged as a metadiscipline and a metalanguage correspondingly which can be applied to discuss issues in ebusiness systems and relevant enterprise architecture and enterprise integration A lot of researches on enterprise architecture and enterprise integration in ebusiness systems have their theoretical findings and effective practices naturally influenced by systems theory and relative methodologies This paper strives to review the contribution of systems theory to enterprise architecture and integration It also tries to summarize methods or tools applied on enterprise systems level and to investigate many crucial scopes concepts and their interrelationship in ebusiness systems integration activities Finally this paper presents new prospects in enterprise architecture and integration for ebusiness systems All of these may be useful to deal with the increase complex informatics issues of modern enterprisesThis project was partially supported by the NSFC National Natural Science Foundation of China Grant 71132008 70890080 70890081 and 70971107 Changjiang Scholar Program of the Ministry of Education of China and the US National Science Foundation Grant 1044845

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