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IT Infrastructure to Enable Next Generation Enterprises

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Next Generation Enterprises (NGEs) rely on automation, mobility, real-time business activity monitoring, agility, and self-service over widely distributed operations to conduct business. It is important to study and analyze such enterprises because they will drive the future industry and job markets. This paper gives a quick overview of NGEs and proposes a conceptual framework for analyzing the IT infrastructure needed to support the NGEs. A systematic discussion and analysis of key building blocks, their interrelationships, and main trends is presented with an emphasis on monitoring and split-second reaction times needed across widely distributed business units of such enterprises.

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Umar, A. IT Infrastructure to Enable Next Generation Enterprises. Inf Syst Front 7, 217–256 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-005-2768-1

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