Small and medium-sized enterprises, besides science and technology, may be a decisive factor in transforming a national economy. SME are not only a new social pattern, but they won a well-defined position, especially due to their adaptation possibilities, the large number of jobs provided, the...

Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) increasingly consider information as an important resource. The challenge consists in using all the integration techniques of the day - whether they are information, data, application systems or even business-process integration - to build an Information...