ANNOUNCING THE FIRST TEXTBOOK
ON ENTERPRISE MODELLING AND INTEGRATION

Enterprise Modeling and Integration:
Principles and Applications

Francois B. Vernadat,
Universite de Metz
vernadat@poncelet.univ-metz.fr

Enterprise modeling is concerned with assessing various aspects of an enterprise in order to better understand, restructure or design enterprise operations. It is the basis of business process re-engineering and the first step to achieving enterprise inte gration. Enterprise integration is a rapidly developing technical field which has already shown proven solutions for system interconnection, electronic data interchange, product data exchange and distributed computing environments. This book combines thes e two methodologies and advocates a systematic engineering approach called Enterprise Engineering, for modeling, analysing, designing and implementing integrated enterprise systems.

Three main themes are explored in the book :

• firstly, the most significant enterprise modeling and integration architectures are presented
• then enterprise modeling principles are introduced and state-of-the-art methods to model various aspects of an enterprise system are discussed and compared
• the final part is devoted to enterprise integration priciples and techniques

Francois B. Vernadat, now a professor in automatic control at the University of Metz, France, previously worked on enterprise modeling and integration at INRIA, France.

Chapman & Hall, 1996. 496 pp. Hardback: 0-412-60550-3
For more information, please consult: http://www.chaphall.com/chaphall.html

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