Introduction

Enterprise integration enables delivery of the right information to the right user in a timely manner, giving businesses a competitive edge in today's global manufacturing and services market. Effective and efficient information systems ensure informed decision making by the management of an enterprise, production of high-quality products on schedule, and delivery of satisfactory services to the customers. However, many existing information systems support only individual business units; they were developed and deployed using ad hoc rather than well-defined enterprise integration approaches, resulting in information silos that make data sharing and information integration difficult. Consequently, enterprises spend up to 35 to 40 ...

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