TY - JOUR
T1 - Design of a Meta Model for integrating enterprise systems
AU - Wang, Chin Bin
AU - Chen, Tsung Yi
AU - Chen, Yuh Min
AU - Chu, Hui Chuan
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the National Science Council, Taiwan, ROC for financially supporting this research under Contract No: 92-2622-E-006-121-CC3.
PY - 2005/4
Y1 - 2005/4
N2 - In the rapidly changing environment of the knowledge economy, an enterprise must respond to potential future changes when developing and implementing enterprise systems, which must be thus flexible and integrateable. The paper presents a method for integrating distributed Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) with the backend of enterprise systems developed by various software vendors. This method, with a Meta Model as the core integration technology, will enable enterprise systems to meet the demands of system integration, and to achieve, based on XML document standards, information integration. The method of integration is sufficiently flexible and expandable to integrate existing enterprises systems as well as systems that may be introduced into enterprises in the future. The study, which takes an on-line purchase system for electronic commerce as an example of the use of the proposed Meta Model, addresses the integration of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to achieve enterprise resources sharing, shorten purchase time and lower operation cost.
AB - In the rapidly changing environment of the knowledge economy, an enterprise must respond to potential future changes when developing and implementing enterprise systems, which must be thus flexible and integrateable. The paper presents a method for integrating distributed Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) with the backend of enterprise systems developed by various software vendors. This method, with a Meta Model as the core integration technology, will enable enterprise systems to meet the demands of system integration, and to achieve, based on XML document standards, information integration. The method of integration is sufficiently flexible and expandable to integrate existing enterprises systems as well as systems that may be introduced into enterprises in the future. The study, which takes an on-line purchase system for electronic commerce as an example of the use of the proposed Meta Model, addresses the integration of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to achieve enterprise resources sharing, shorten purchase time and lower operation cost.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.compind.2004.10.003
DO - 10.1016/j.compind.2004.10.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:14844338616
VL - 56
SP - 305
EP - 322
JO - Computers in Industry
JF - Computers in Industry
SN - 0166-3615
IS - 3
ER -