An asynchronous relationship is a type of integration between two or more systems, or components within a system, that enables data to be exchanged without requiring an immediate result or action to be performed; a result is expected at some…

Keep It Simple: a good and elusive goal. The expression has never been so relevant or important as applied to enterprise software development. This special kind of software is both highly complex and highly abstractable, because of it’s many and diverse…

As defined in Enterprise Information Systems: Contemporary Trends and Issues (Olson and Kesharwani, 2010): An enterprise information system (EIS) is any kind of information system which improves the functions of an enterprise business processes by integration. This means typically offering high quality of service, dealing with large…

Enterprise software differs from other forms of software mainly in the number of stakeholders and the diversity of their perspectives. The characteristics that make that software valuable and useful are, as a consequence, also many and diverse. For the organization…

  In business terms, an enterprise is a large group of people that can come together to form an effective business on a large scale. In fact it is more like a grouping of groups. Technology has been instrumental in…

Actually this is not the first post. But it is a restatement of the original. IT, Information Technology, is not quite the right monikor for what this common area- in telecom and communications, health care, manufacturing, entertainment, etc. has evolved…

This is the first post on this site. The purpose is to provide a location for articles detailing my approach and experience in enterprise software, particularly regarding operation support systems and the strategic role they can play.