Middleware Integration of DDS and ESB for Interconnection between Real-Time Embedded and Enterprise Systems

Information system of motor transport enterprise is one of the most important components of its activity. The perfection of this system strongly affects the efficiency of the enterprise. The purpose of the article is to develop proposals for improving the existing information system taking into account the characteristics of the enterprise. To achieve the objectives of the article, the following methods were used: information on approaches to defining the concept of information system was analyzed and synthesized, the existing approaches to the design of information systems were sassessed. Using a logical approach, the components of the information-logical model of the “Travel Letter” database were identified. The study also widely used the methods of comparative analysis, graphical method and the method of operagrams to study the document flow of the enterprise. In the article the information system of the motor transport enterprise which, unlike existing ones, takes into account current condition of the information flows, which provide effective management of the enterprise and optimizes the routes of document movement was further developed. The proposed improvements will allow MTE to achieve their goals more systematically, increase the speed of information flows, ensure their quality and efficiency. The obtained results, which include the development of an improved information system of the enterprise, allow to carry out further research on the document flow of all divisions and services of MTE and to develop their improved information systems on the basis of research results.

Building their companies into successful e-businesses has become an important objective for today’s enterprises. Conceptually, it embodies the enabling of the business with such capabilities as global networking, streamlining business processes, sharing information, agility in responding to the market, and intelligent decision making. But how can these concepts be implemented in actual enterprises? Why do these desirable attributes of business systems suddenly become the definition of competency of companies large and small? This paper describes the framework for building an e-business from the enterprise information systems’ perspective. Increasingly enterprise systems have extended beyond the traditional business functions and include such new features as supply-chain management, customer relationship management and electronic commerce. The shifting focus is driven by the adoption of the Web as a new channel for product distribution, marketing, and interacting with customers. The integration of the traditional as well as the Web-oriented functions is the cornerstone for a successful e-business. This paper presents a framework for e-businesses that on one hand build on the enterprise systems but on the other hand encompasses the new e-business dimensions.

Companies around the world are using enterprise systems. Universities are following the trend by integrating enterprise systems into their curricula. The main role of enterprise systems is to support business operations ef?ciently and effectively and to create competi-tive advantage. Nevertheless, to reap the bene?ts of using enterprise systems, it is essential to align the information technology goals with business goals and to establish appropriate enterprise architecture (EA) and enterprise information architecture (EIA) support. For students to understand the linkage between the EA and EIA and to learn the subject, a hybrid academic and industrial approach to teach EA and EIA is proposed. This proposed hybrid approach covers theory, framework, principles, and best practices of the EA and EIA in the beginning, evolving to a practical and comprehensive approach in delivering the subject matter–EA and EIA. A real world EA and EIA project is used to illustrate the ef?cacy of these architectures.

The continuous modification of business processes finally result in a situation where several software systems have to collaborate in a way that was never anticipated in their original design. The emerging technologies and standards drive enterprises into modernising their stand-alone legacy assets and leveraging them into an integrated platform for interoperation. At the same time, enterprises are under tremendous pressure to evolve their existing systems to better respond to marketplace needs and rapidly changing technologies. This constant pressure to evolve is driven by escalating expectations of the customer for new enterprise standards, new products and system features, and improved performance. With emerging standards which simplify the interoperation in enterprise information infrastructure, an Enterprise Integration (EI) architecture is described in this paper. The dependability requirement is discussed to prevent architectural mismatches and avoid the standard conflict in the architecture. Based on the integrated architecture, the approach of legacy reusing is explored in order to leverage and reuse legacies.

Introduction. In the course of development of the sixth technological order in Russia, based on the assumption that automation, digital technologies and artificial intelligence will become the main engines of economic growth, significant changes will occur in the service sector. This, in turn, will change the business processes of production and consumption of goods and services, and will also affect the role and functions of the management system in organizations and enterprises. Goal. The purpose of the study is to solve problems of competent and logical construction of business processes, as well as the formation of new organizational and economic mechanisms for increasing the management tools of service enterprises. Materials and methods. The authors of the study, within the framework of a systems approach, using the historical method, comparative analysis and synthesis, reveal the management specifics of the digital transformation of business processes of service enterprises, using formal logic to clarify the methods and forms of digital transformation of business processes. The methods of induction and deduction made it possible to clarify the management tools in the digital adaptation of business processes at service enterprises. Results and discussion. The article analyzes the categories, characteristics of the features of digital transformation of business processes at service enterprises. Approaches to adapting business processes to the realities of the service sector are formulated. Methods for analyzing and evaluating the effectiveness of digital changes in business processes of service enterprises are clarified and grouped. The management tools recommended for digital transformation of business processes at service enterprises are clarified and grouped. The authors offer their individual interpretation. Organizational and economic tools for the development of the mechanism for digital transformation of business processes at service enterprises are formulated. Conclusion. As part of improving organizational and economic tools for the development of the mechanism for digital transformation of business processes at service enterprises, proposals have been formed for the stages of development of digitalization of the management system, which in practical terms will serve as a real basis for the formation of management competencies of the management team of enterprises.

This paper proposes an agent-based enterprise information architecture called AbEIA to the handle technical and organizational problems faced by current enterprise information systems (EISs). AbEIA is composed of an information infrastructure layer, business process layer and a user interface layer. Seven types of agent are used in the new architecture to facilitate setting up information systems in enterprises. We also demonstrate how AbEIA is applied to the EIS of 3PL.

With booming of distribution requirements from e-commerce in China, logistics information systems in enterprises tend to be more integrated. Information of various types of terminals from Internet of Things, Mobile Internet, GIS, GPS needs to be handled quickly in the system. It is not accidental for major express enterprises to plan their transformation to integrated logistics information system. But how to evaluate the effect of the system? This study constructs the evaluation model for integrated logistics information system of logistic enterprises and test it. The results show that the evaluation model is effective to evaluate the efficiency of the information system.

Organizations are keen to obtain as much value as they can from their information systems (IS) investments. While the first-order benefits of new information systems are usually obtained when they are used routinely, the full potential of new systems is only unlocked when they are used deeply. While the support of managers and peers can encourage individuals to use systems more deeply, the latter’s lack of technical know-how means that they may not be able to allay fears or doubts that arise as they improvise and experiment with new systems to infuse them into their work processes. We use social cognitive theory to frame infusion as a learning process, where individuals model their behavior based on the behaviors of others they observe in the environment and the resources available. We argue that individual users succeed in infusing new systems into their work when they interact with IS professionals. This interaction allows users to observe the actions of IS professionals and receive knowledge and guidance from them. The results of our study show that the discretionary behaviors exhibited by IS professionals positively affect users’ perceptions of the levels of usefulness and ease of use of new systems, encouraging them to use the systems as fully as possible. This study extends our understanding of the role that the discretionary behavior of IS professionals plays in enhancing the value that organizations obtain from their new IS investments.

Engineering Changes (ECs) are inevitable and frequent in manufacturing enterprises. The primary challenge in efficient management of ECs arises because the sources as well as the effects of an EC are spread across different phases of the product lifecycle. With the application of information systems in enterprises, it becomes an urgent problem to run integrated engineering change management based on information systems. In this paper, we analyze the state-of-the-art in the context of current information management application environments. Problems are defined and solving strategies are presented from the viewpoint of information integration. The overall goal is to enable a streamlined enterprise change management environment, which aggregates all required product information.

Business Process Management is one of the most important components of a process-driven organization that we perceive as a sum of processes that are more or less follow-up. By adjusting and managing these processes, we can greatly influence the organization's performance, efficiency, flexibility and competitiveness. Business Process Management is important to support the technical infrastructure of modern information systems and communication technologies. These systems are part of the overall enterprise information system. The following article focuses on information and communication technologies for the proper and efficient functioning of process management in agro sectoral companies. This article presents a summary of theoretical knowledge and practical recommendations for creating and maintaining a process management system in enterprises with the support of information and communication technologies. For a more detailed analysis of this issue, statistical research, the partial results of which are subjected to statistical testing, are presented in the following article.

The purpose of this study is to define generic service processes, their system, and a scope of service science developed originally by the author. In the presented approach, the main criterion is the class of serviced users, since this leads to the six kinds of process recognition and eventually helps in planning e-service systems’ architecture. E-service system (e-SS) is defined as a mission-goal-strategy-driven configuration of technology, organizational processes and networks designed to deliver HTservicesTH that satisfy the needs, wants, or aspirations of customers. Marketing, operations, and global environment considerations have significant implications for the design of an e-service system. Four criteria which impact e-service systems’ architecture have been defined as: service business model, customer contact and level of involvement (Service User Interface), service provider’s enterprise complexity (Enterprise Systems and Networks), and scope of goods involved in service. It was proved that the e-service system is the intermediary layer between Service User Interface and Enterprise Systems and Networks. Two examples of e-SS have been modeled.

Post-merger integration is one of the most challenging problems facing corporate acquirers. Empirical research shows that the majority of mergers fail to realize expected synergies. One primary cause of this underperformance is delays in the integration of enterprise systems. Sequential integration takes a lot of time and is not as effective. The Platform-Led Accelerated Integration Framework reframes post-merger integration as an enterprise architecture transformation instead of consecutive system migrations. It applies parallelized workstream orchestration, enterprise data architecture unification, and formalized cross-functional alignment mechanisms to deliver post-merger synergies in months rather than years. Core principles included a unified platform architecture over point-to-point migration, Day-One readiness, and compliance-first design. The Integration Platform Layer consisted of a canonical data model, process orchestration engine, API gateway, and centralized compliance services serving both the legacy and new entity. The enterprise architecture capability in particular is an enabler to integration success. IT flexibility and IT standardization were found to have positive impacts. High-performing acquirers employ appropriately qualified and experienced team members for integrations and have fit-for-purpose executive oversight in the governance of the integration. The framework applies to clean energy, mobility, healthcare and financial services. Accelerated integration enables realization of synergy value earlier, a reduction of extended exposure to risk, and the establishment of scalable digital foundations.

Continuous auditing requires that information systems (IS) are developed not only to fulfill business requirements but also to continuously monitor transactions and fulfill compliance and pervasive control requirements. The integration of enterprise systems and their controls within a process-centric logic necessitates a likewise integration of their development processes. Subsequently existing tools and techniques for requirements analysis need to be recast within a hybrid and integrated approach dubbed requirement analysis for process-centric continuous monitoring or RA-PCCM, which consists of the concurrent analysis of operational systems, IS, the control system and the management system. RA-PCCM offers a working model for the concurrent development of enterprise systems and their internal controls, hence ensuring the continuous monitoring of transaction processing and compliance with pervasive controls. Consequently, auditing assumes the role of control monitoring assurance rather than the substantive testing of enterprise system process and output.

Modern enterprises are facing more and more uncertainties and challenges from insecurity and context sensitivity. In view of information security, an enterprise is considered as a collection of assets and their interrelationships and how users use their rights to access the enterprise. These interrelationships may be built into the enterprise information infrastructure, as in the case of connection of hardware elements in network architecture, or in the installation of software or in the information assets. As a result, access to one element may enable access to another if they are connected. An enterprise may specify the conditions on how to access certain assets in certain mode (read, write etc.) as policies. The interconnection of assets, along with specified policies, may lead to vulnerabilities in the enterprise information system if misused. This paper presents a formal methodology for detection of vulnerabilities and threats to enterprise information systems.

Enterprise systems design, implementation, and integration are focal points for business and information technology. Businesses must change processes, environments, and technologies as organizations strive to become more integrated and break down traditional silos of information systems and responsibility. These challenges require a new type of technical professional: one with the training and perspective of an enterprise architect with general technical expertise as well as business strategy and planning skills. Some college and university programs have risen to this challenge in recent years, and the joint ACM/Association for Information Systems Task Force developed the MSIS curriculum model to establish the fundamentals of enterprise information systems in response to the increasing demand for university-trained graduates in an information economy (Gorgone, Gray, & Feinstein, 2000). Recently, the Association for Open Group Enterprise Architects called for industry and academia to work together to craft new enterprise systems curricula that are relevant to today’s global business environment and developed from the perspective of an enterprise architect. Today’s globally competitive environment requires technical professionals to move beyond technical expertise and contribute to the strategy and development of dynamic IT systems that are able to support changing business objectives. To be prepared to meet such expectations, IT students must have broad experience in the design, implementation, and integration of such systems. This education is typically offered in a layered fashion, teaching students about databases, networks, and applications in different courses devoted to single topics (Nickerson, 2006). While this method allows universities to assign faculty with specific expertise to particular courses, it does not adequately prepare students for the work environment of the enterprise architect, where all of these different layers must be combined to support and align with business strategy. Students trained in a specific, narrow layer may fail to anticipate certain trends or requirements, such as a database designer overlooking the need for remote replication (Nickerson). To meet this need, many information technology programs are incorporating enterprise systems curricula for senior students. These courses are often referred to as “capstones” in the curriculum, and must focus on a wide variety of educational goals including understanding the enterprise as a whole, understanding how technology can provide a competitive advantage, learning to design complex integrated systems, learning concepts underlying technical systems integration, learning how to assess the requirements of an integrated system, and learning how enterprise architecture design is practiced as a profession.