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Virtual enterprise — Information system and networking solution

✍ Scribed by Kyung Hye Park; Joël Favrel

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
274 KB
Volume
37
Category
Article
ISSN
0360-8352

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✦ Synopsis

The term "virtual enterprise" has been used in articulating the strategy for the 21 st century global manufacturing enterprises. One of the key requirements is to develop an Information System infrastructure to integrate and control the interoperability of the distributed, heterogeneous and concurrent systems in the participating organizations. This article presents an innovative Information System infrastructure and it's Networking Solution to help describing global information technology support for inter-organizational enterprises with the background of modem information and communication technology. Three types of technology are focused on : Data warehouse, Process warehouse and Intranet/Extranet. A project of a "Plug-and-Play" Virtual Enterprise is also presented.

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