Handbook of Enterprise Integration

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.

Figures Tables 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