Towards a Service-Oriented Enterprise: The Design of a Cloud Business Integration Platform in a Medium-Sized Manufacturing Enterprise

This case study research followed the two-year transition of a medium-sized manufacturing firm towards a service-oriented enterprise. A service-oriented enterprise is an emerging architecture of the firm that leverages the paradigm of services computing to integrate the capabilities of the firm with the complementary competencies of business partners to offer customers with value-added products and services. Design science research in information systems was employed to pursue the primary design of a cloud business integration platform to enable the secondary design of multi-enterprise business processes to enable the dynamic and effective integration of business partner capabilities with those of the enterprise. The results from the study received industry acclaim for the designed solutions innovativeness and business results in the case study environment. The research makes contributions to the IT practitioner and scholarly knowledge base by providing insight into key constructs associated with service-oriented design and deployment of a cloud enterprise architecture and cloud intermediation model to achieve business results. The study demonstrated how an outside-in service-oriented architecture adoption pattern and cloud computing model enabled a medium-sized manufacturing enterprise to focus on a comprehensive approach to business partner integration and collaboration. The cloud integration platform has enabled a range of secondary designs that leveraged business services to orchestrate inter-enterprise business processes for choreography into service systems and networks for the purposes of value creation. The study results demonstrated enhanced levels of business process agility enabled by the cloud platform leading to secondary designs of transactional, differentiated, innovative, and improvisational business processes. The study provides a foundation for future scholarly research on the role of cloud integration platforms in enterprise computing and the increased importance of service-oriented secondary designs to exploit cloud platforms for sustained business performance

INTEGRATING MOBILE IT/CLOUD INTO ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Since the year 2000, Enterprise Architecture has been the object of focus as a method for promoting an IT architecture that establishes consistency between corporate business and IT strategies, and it has been applied mostly in global corporations. On the other hand, with the recent progress in Mobile IT technology and Cloud computing, in the IT systems of global corporations, the shift from conventional on premise server-based IT systems to Cloud computing, such as Software as a Service (SaaS), Hybrid Cloud, and connected Mobile IT systems, has become more pronounced. In promoting Enterprise Architecture, EA based upon an approach compatible to the cutting-edge IT technologies of Mobile IT/Cloud computing will be required by global corporations. This paper elucidates key points for EA methods to respond to the cutting-edge IT technology that will be required in the future by conducting a comparative analysis of the support environments of Mobile IT elements and related Cloud computing technology in each EA framework currently used widely in many global corporations

Using the academic clouds in the future computer science teachers training

Розглянуто поняття, пов'язані з застосуванням хмарних технологій у вищому навчальному закладі, зокрема проаналізовано поняття «віртуальна лабораторія», визначено хмарну платформу, на основі якої можна її розгорнути. Описано досвід організації навчального проекту для практичної підготовки майбутніх учителів інформатикиThe thesis investigated the concepts of «academic cloud» and «virtual laboratory». This paper describes the experience of the deployment enterprise cloud and it used in the process of future computer science teachers trainin

Cloud Computing Technology: Leveraging the Power of the Internet to Improve Business Performance

In recent years, Cloud Computing Technology (CCT) has emerged as a meaningful technology that could contribute to operational efficiency of an IT platform by providing infrastructure and software solutions for the whole IT needs of an enterprise via Internet. The cloud has revolutionized IT infrastructure. It is predicted that 2017 will mark the rapid proliferation of enterprises transitioning to the cloud-based computing technology. The utilization of this innovative technology makes collaboration easier among companies and has the potential to create financial and operational benefits. This study discusses potential strategic benefits of this technology, highlights its evolving technologies and trends and their future impact, reviews different phases necessary to deploy the technology, highlights key adoption factors, and surveys its potential application in different industries

The Future of Accounting Profession in an Era of Start-Ups

With the help of the advancements in the field of communication and information technologies, the number of IT-based software has rapidly increased and the capabilities of high-budget enterprise resource planning (ERP) software widely used by large enterprises have begun to be offered to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In this chapter, cloud computing and other information technologies based accounting start-ups are covered, and the effects of these highly increasing start-ups on the profession of accounting have been addressed. In conclusion, it has been predicted that technology-based accounting start-ups with both accounting professionals and entrepreneurs having an expertise on information technologies will come together and will increase in the future, and cloud-based accounting initiatives will shape the future of the profession

Reseach on Cloud Computing Service Oriented Architecture (雲端運算服務導向架構之研究 楊建民 1 蔡鈞華 2 劉俊宏 3)

With the development of cloud computing infrastructure, how to combine enterprise information services with external cloud computing resources is an important issue important research topic. At present, some major service providers in the market, such as Google, IBM and HP, etc. It strives to promote and provide powerful cloud computing capabilities and a complete application service environment; however, the current cloud computing The overall application and data are placed on an external platform, causing doubts about the transfer of control rights and information security when enterprises introduce cloud computing. consider.. This research adopts Google Cloud Computing Environment, combines Cloud Computing and Service Oriented Architecture to develop a four-dimensional Layered service platform, in which the application interface layer takes advantage of the open platform to reduce the burden of service interface development. center The control layer connects the service provider and the service demander, controls the complete service process, and uses external cloud computing and Resources in the Data Center. The service supply layer combines various application services and data sources, by separating computing and data This method allows service demanders to maintain control over data, so as to solve the doubts about information security when enterprises introduce cloud architecture. consider. The infrastructure layer can be connected to cloud computing resources, and the service architecture and computing proposed by various cloud operators can be used in the future Capability and storage resources, and according to the advantages and characteristics of individual platforms, give full play to the benefits of cloud computing architecture. Finally, this study demonstrates the feasibility and integration of this service platform by developing the application of digital learning community websites The advantages of external cloud computing services, and future research directions