Title: Integrating e-business transactions across extended enterprises

Authors: Thomas R. Gulledge, Rainer A. Sommer

Addresses: George Mason University, School of Public Policy, 4400 University Drive MS 3C6, Finley Building, Fairfax VA 22030, USA. ' George Mason University, School of Public Policy, 4400 University Drive MS 3C6, Finley Building, Fairfax VA 22030, USA

Abstract: International e-business, with the exception of international finance, is still in its infancy. Connectivity is quite common via such mechanisms as the internet and private networks, but application-to-application integration at the business process level is not well developed. This paper draws on our current implementation projects and presents a realistic assessment of e-business integration for the present. We extend the assessment by providing a pragmatic forecast for how the e-business integration model will evolve over the next few years.

Keywords: enterprise resource planning; ERP; supply chain; extensible markup language; XML; electronic data interchange; EDI; value added network; VAN.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMED.2004.004386

International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development, 2004 Vol.1 No.2, pp.89 - 101

Published online: 10 May 2004 *

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