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Towards a Support Framework for Enterprise Integration

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Knowing ‘what to do next’ and what artefacts to use so as to achieve the desired future state of an enterprise is a recurring management conundrum. This paper describes a framework (and a possible application) aimed to support the efforts to achieve and maintain enterprises (or networks thereof) in a state where the flows of material and information are seamlessly integrated so as to achieve the internal and external synergy and agility required to survive but also to thrive in today’s fast-evolving business environment. The framework is based on the integration of a structured repository containing architecture framework elements and a set of steps guiding the creation of specific enterprise engineering tasks. An outline of the theoretical foundation is followed by a high-level description of the requirements and architectural design descriptions of the proposed support framework and its potential application as a decision support system.

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    Ovidiu Noran

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    Robert Meersman

  2. Curtin University of Technology, DEBII - CBS, De Laeter Way, 6102, Bentley, WA, Australia

    Tharam Dillon

  3. Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo S/N, 28660, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain

    Pilar Herrero

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Noran, O. (2010). Towards a Support Framework for Enterprise Integration. In: Meersman, R., Dillon, T., Herrero, P. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2010 Workshops. OTM 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6428. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16961-8_37

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