Design of a Meta Model for integrating enterprise systems |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Information Management, Nan Hua University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, ROC;2. Institute of Manufacturing Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, ROC;3. National University of Tainan, Tainan, Taiwan, ROC;1. IBM Research, Nairobi, Kenya;2. IBM Research, Bangalore, India;1. Department of Industrial Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Republic of Korea;2. Statematics Consulting, 4 Sylvan Terrace, New York, NY 10032, USA;1. Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Paris, France;2. Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic;3. Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Potsdam, Germany;4. University of Geneva, Carouge, Switzerland;5. BITS Goa, Sancoale, India;6. NOVA LINCS Research Center, Lisbon, Portugal;7. Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States;1. International Computer Institute, Ege University, Bornova, 35100 Izmir, Turkey;2. Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, Smetanova 17, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia;1. IBM Research, Zurich, Switzerland;2. University of Innsbruck, Austria;3. Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands;4. Perceptive Software, The Netherlands;1. National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China;2. Visual Computing Center of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia;3. Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA |
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| Abstract: | 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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