Enterprise Integration by Market-Driven Schema Evolution

Abstract

The way enterprises are organizing their processes is ultimately dictated by the requirements of their markets Enterprises serving slowly changing markets prefer a functional decomposition of their work force into departments with information flows along the hierarchy Quickly changing markets require quick redefinition of implemented functions and information flows in the distributed information systems of the enterprise This paper proposes conceptual modeling facilities and a trader architecture which enable a bottom-up market-driven evolution of the information system schemes A case study has been undertaken in the area of distributed quality management The trader has been im plemented with the meta database manager ConceptBase The information systems realize the information flows via federated SQL servers