Empowering enterprises through next-generation enterprise computing
Empowering enterprises through next-generation enterprise computing
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DOI：
10.1080/17517575.2010.528802
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发表时间：
2011-02
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
M. V. Sinderen;J. P. Almeida
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作者：
M. V. Sinderen;J. P. Almeida
企业计算关注的是利用互联的计算机来提高大型公司的效率和效力。这类公司形成商业组织，管理各种信息，这些信息由位于不同地理位置的不同人群使用。这促使了基于计算机的信息系统的使用，不仅是为了降低成本和提高生产率，也是为了实现新颖的商业模式。由于企业计算对商业组织的重要性，信息系统已经大量部署。为了解决遗留问题和异构性问题以及由此导致的互操作性缺乏问题，在单个组织范围内或跨组织边界对原本孤立的系统进行集成方面已经投入了大量的研究努力。这催生了一些重要的发展，包括企业应用集成（EAI）、业务流程管理（BPM）、企业对企业集成（B2Bi），以及最近的面向服务的架构（SOA）。在这篇社论中，我们思考当前和未来的企业计算发展，这些发展将进一步增强企业的能力。我们受到本期特刊文章的启发来进行思考，这些文章是2009年9月1日至4日在新西兰奥克兰举行的第13届IEEE国际企业分布式对象计算会议（EDOC 2009），即“企业计算会议”所选最佳论文的修订版。此外，我们讨论一种由新技术驱动的范式，它可能对企业计算并因此对企业的未来产生重大影响。
Enterprise computing is concerned with exploiting interconnected computers to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of larger companies. Such companies form business organizations that manage various sorts of information, used by disparate groups of people, who are situated at different geographical locations. This motivates the use of computer-based information systems, not only to reduce costs and increase productivity, but also to enable novel business models. As a result of the importance of enterprise computing to business organizations, information systems have been massively deployed. In order to cope with legacy and heterogeneity problems and consequently with lack of interoperability, considerable research efforts have been spent on integration of otherwise isolated systems either within the scope of a single organization or across organizational boundaries. This has spawned a number of important developments, including Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Business Process Management (BPM), Business-to-Business integration (B2Bi), and, more recently, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). In this editorial we reflect on current and future enterprise computing developments that would further empower enterprises. We do this inspired by the articles in this special issue, which are revised versions of selected best papers of the 13th IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2009), “The Enterprise Computing Conference”, held on 1-4 September 2009 in Auckland, New Zealand. In addition, we discuss a new technology-driven paradigm that may have considerable impact on enterprise computing and hence on the future of enterprises.