Enterprise integration with ERP and EAI

• Main Authors: LEE, Jinyoul, SIAU, Keng, HONG, Soongoo
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2003
• Subjects: Degree of communication; Enterprise application integration (EAI); Externalization; Internalization; Digital Communications and Networking; Hardware Systems; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/9589; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/10589/viewcontent/Enterprise_integration_with_ERP_and_EAI.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The Integration of enterprise with the ERP (enterprise resource planning) and EAI (enterprise application integration) is discussed. The ERP supports the centralized business strategy while EAI accomodates the decentralized business processes. The changes brought in by the internet technology led the internalization and extrenalization to move together. The agility and the flexibility in the organizations would be achieved by a greater degree of communication, coordination and cooperation in human factors and information technologies. The enterprise integration fulfills the needs of both internal business processes and external customer by internalization and externalization.