MANAGING INFORMATION FLOW DYNAMICS WITH AGILE ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURES

Nancy Alexopoulou, Panagiotis Kanellis, Drakoulis Martakos

2004

Abstract

New organization forms and ways of conducting business require architectures for enterprise systems that can support and not hinder entrepreneurial activities. Primarily this means that the information flow between both internal as well as cross-enterprise processes must be managed by underlying systems that offer a high level of automation as well as being highly flexible and integrated. In this respect, we present an agile architecture that offers a coherent and high level conceptualisation of the above properties that enterprise information systems should display, consider a number of technologies as potential implementation candidates and demonstrate how the architecture addresses node density, velocity, viscosity and volatility as parameters for managing and controlling the dynamics of information flows.

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in Harvard Style

Alexopoulou N., Kanellis P. and Martakos D. (2004). MANAGING INFORMATION FLOW DYNAMICS WITH AGILE ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURES . In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-00-7, pages 454-459. DOI: 10.5220/0002612204540459


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis04,
author={Nancy Alexopoulou and Panagiotis Kanellis and Drakoulis Martakos},
title={MANAGING INFORMATION FLOW DYNAMICS WITH AGILE ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2004},
pages={454-459},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002612204540459},
isbn={972-8865-00-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - MANAGING INFORMATION FLOW DYNAMICS WITH AGILE ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURES
SN - 972-8865-00-7
AU - Alexopoulou N.
AU - Kanellis P.
AU - Martakos D.
PY - 2004
SP - 454
EP - 459
DO - 10.5220/0002612204540459