Enterprise integration

[1] It is a concept in enterprise engineering to provide the relevant information and thereby enable communication between people, machines and computers and their efficient co-operation and co-ordination.

[3] Enterprise Integration is focused on optimizing operations in a world which could be considered full of continuous and largely unpredictable change.

Changes occur in single manufacturing companies just as well as in an "everchanging set of extended or virtual enterprises".

It enables the actors to make "quick and accurate decisions and adaptation of operations to respond to emerging threats and opportunities".

The state of the art in enterprise engineering and integration by the end of the 1990s has been rather confusing, according to Jim Nell and Kurt Kosanke (1997): Workflow modelling, business process modelling, business process reengineering (BPR), and concurrent engineering all aim toward identifying and providing the information needed in the enterprise operation.

[6] The figure illustrates the concept of an integrating infrastructure linking the enterprise model to the real world systems.

Integrating services act as a harmonising platform across the heterogeneous system environments (IT and others) and provide the necessary execution support for the model.

Concept of enterprise integration
Evolution in Enterprise Integration: This figure summarizes these developments indicating the shift of emphasis from systems integration to enterprise integration with increasing focus on inter enterprise operations or networks.
Generalised Enterprise Reference Architecture and Methodology (GERAM) Framework for Enterprise Integration.
Example of Enterprise integration: the US National Business Center 's Human Resources Line of Business, Innovative Future Direction.