Stores of data and information can be the most important assets of an enterprise. Once the advent of e-commerce, eroding geographical boundaries, developing of mobile systems, increasing number of web application, distributed database systems have become reality and are widely applied in...

The e-business ecosystem generates pressure on modern companies to invest massively in technologies that can bring them into the digital world of business-to-business collaboration. In their race to become a player of the global information system, companies have accumulated many layers of...

One of the most exciting buzz-words in (e-)business literature of the last decade is virtual organization. The term "virtual" can be found in all sorts of combinations regarding the business world. From virtual products to virtual processes or virtual teams, everything that is "touched" by the...

<P>This book gathers together a critical body of knowledge on what enterprise architecture (EA) is and how it can be used to better organize the functions of systems across an enterprise for an effective business-IT alignment. The chapters provide a solid foundation for a cross-disciplinary...</p>

Model-driven engineering (MDE) is the automatic production of software from simplified models of structure and functionality. It mainly involves the automation of the routine and technologically complex programming tasks, thus allowing developers to focus on the true value-adding functionality...