Name
Title | ||
|---|---|---|
A Flexible Enterprise Needs an Adaptable e-Business Architecture in order to Satisfy Naturally Evolving Requirements |
Abstract | ||
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Standards for exchange of purchasing information, such as ANSI X-12 for EDI, have been used by large industries (e.g. retail and auto) for almost 30 years. Newer web-based tools and new standards hold the promise of reduced cost and wider applicability. For many small to medium sized enterprises, the cost and rigidity o f existing tools out weight t he prospective gains, which must be amortised over comparatively few transactions. In this paper, we describe the development of an N-tiered, object-oriented, architecture for interacting with suppliers based on emerging web tools. We explore the ways in which the project was required to adapt to existing purchasing systems and the ways that the project evolved du ring its development. We identify patterns in the inevitable evolution of requirements during the implementation, and we describe the ways that the architecture facilitated the satisfaction of t hese changing requirements. By analysing the major "transition points" during the development, we attempt to document t he fundamental nature of evolving requirements and the need to explicitly reflect them in adaptable e-business architectures. |
Year | Venue | Keywords |
|---|---|---|
2000 | european conference on information systems | i. current business-to-business standard solutions |
Field | DocType | Citations |
Architecture,Electronic business,Enterprise architecture,Computer science,Knowledge management,Business requirements,Business architecture | Conference | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 2 | 5 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vincenzo D'Andrea | 1 | 250 | 29.98 |
| Alessandro E. Narduzzo | 2 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Arthur B. Baskin | 3 | 29 | 10.22 |
| Gianni Jacucci | 4 | 123 | 38.26 |
| Enrico Zaninotto | 5 | 3 | 1.09 |