Enterprise Systems Integration: Evolution, Theory, and Application

This report delves into the multifaceted domain of Enterprise Systems Integration (ESI), providing a comprehensive overview of its core concepts and evolution. It begins by defining ESI as a crucial discipline for combining processes, procedures, and system management, particularly in the context of complex, large-scale systems. The report traces the evolution of Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) over the past half-century, highlighting the shift towards unified work processes and the rise of new organizational structures. It then examines the application of systems theory and systems thinking within EIS, emphasizing the integration of business processes into digital systems. The report also explores the different modes of enterprise integration, including peer-to-peer, broker-based, and business-process integration, along with the application of application logic and data logic for effective business management. Finally, the report concludes by summarizing the key aspects of ESI, emphasizing the significance of systems thinking and the multi-dimensional vision it provides for the effective implementation of EIS.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Enterprise system integration.....................................................................................................2
Evolution of Enterprise information system..............................................................................3
Systems theory and Systems thinking in Enterprise information system..................................4
Enterprise integration and the application of systems theory....................................................5
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6
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Introduction
The Communication and information has been the pillar for the organizations in the
world (Bi, Da Xu and Wang 2014). The integration is very important for the development of
the systems in the organization and also helpful for meeting the demands of the customers of
the organization. The report has been used for the description of the Enterprise information
system and the different aspects of the Enterprise Integration system has been described in
the report.
The report includes the description of the Enterprise System Integration, The
Evolution of the Enterprise information system, the system theory and the system thinking of
the Enterprise Information System and the enterprise integration and the application of the
systems theory.
Enterprise system integration
Enterprise system integration is a disciple that would be helpful in the combination of
the processes and the procedures for the systems and the management of the system
(Gaichetti 2016). The development of the product and large-scale, complex system that
would be involving the software and the hardware which are based on the existing system for
the organization for which the systems are to be coupled with the newer requirement to add
the functionalities significantly. In this digital era the information system has been developed
in the different areas for creating complex environments and specially in the large scale
enterprises. In addition to this, the system integration is a very challenging task due to the
difficulties in the technical aspects of the system. It involves a number of organizations and
the different type of organizational structures to be incorporated into a single system and the
technical and the non-technical aspects of the systems are also managed efficiently by the

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system (Panetto et al. 2016). It is also to be seen as a continuous process where the business
is evolving continuously.
Evolution of Enterprise information system
In respect to the historical context it has been almost about half of a century that the
Enterprise Information systems have been spanned across over more than half of the
companies of the world (Feldman et al. 2015). The material requirement, manufacturing
requirement and enterprise resource planning has been developed and additionally there has
been wide implementations for controlling the production and planning activities within the
manufacturing enterprises of the modern world. In addition to this, the organizations have
been facing a world-wide competition for over a longer period of time. There has been a huge
amount of expectation that has been imposed on the organizations and the enterprises are
compelled to unify the work and achieve the success that is expected of them. The main goals
for the organizations vary however there is common goal to reduce costs and increase
efficiency (Hoag, Molla and Poon 2016). There have been new forms of organizations that
follow the newer procedures such as the extended enterprise organizations and the virtual
enterprises.
The information systems were built traditionally to support the procedures of the
organizations so that the automation of the procedures in the organization can take place
efficiently and the execution of the complex procedures involved in the businesses can be
conducted very easily (Ghazali, Ahmad and Zakaria 2015). The business enterprises are
generally viewed as a network of multiple number of heterogeneous sources of information
which would be helpful in the accommodation of the automated business functions, which are
performed by other business functions. Once the systems are automated then the enterprise
typically ends up with a large number of stand-alone systems and in between this system the
related information are distributed and not all information are shared (Laudon and Laudon

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2015). In the current business scenario, the business modellers are not provided by the system
architects and a formal system is formed theoretically and the it is later realized using the
business perspective (Berente et al. 2016). Using these perspectives, various businesses are
an analysed and the overall evaluation of the business is formed. The gap in the business is
serious and the results in the change of the process logic before the system.
Systems theory and Systems thinking in Enterprise information system
The concept of system thinking helps in the obtaining an important insight to the role
of the information systems for the organizations, and the process from the knowledge in the
data (Buckley and Ghauri 2015). The information system, are generally created for the
organizations to support their business and the process within the organizations. The
enterprise information system thinking involves the concept of the integration of the business
process into the digital system and the implement the thinking and ideas using the functions
and the methods for any type of organizations. The integration of one or more systems in the
organization helps them in supporting each other and are also helpful in fetching results from
of collaborative process executed from each system individually (Yeow et al. 2018).
However, in case of a certain system supporting another system for fetching the result, it has
been thought necessary that the system servers the nature of it.
The concept of information is more comprehensive than the concept of a mere data
processing system and the it is used efficiently for addressing the type of computations that
are going to take place and the process of transaction taking place for the systems. The
information systems are also indicated as the knowledge attribute system that provides the
data for the queries from the different source of the users (Moones et al. 2015). The results
fetch meaningful reports both for the individuals and the organizations. One of the very
crucial factor for the EIS is the government of the people who are within the organization and
control their activities and monitor them.

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The construction of the information system adopts a number of approaches such as
the structural design and the bottom-up processes (Romero and Vernadat 2016). The
information system development is to be accomplished in a systematic process and there is
various type of order in which the order of the tasks is completed. In addition to this, there are
consequent processes in which are managed in phases and the steps are required for building
and shaping up the new IT systems. Each of the phase are to completed by different sets of
experts and personnel who are within the organization. The core theory involves the
conventional approaches taken for the development of the systems. There has been a rapid
renewal in the software and hardware the network formed for the organization is basically a
distributed one and hence, there has been an evolution in this aspect and so the ISD would
work with great agile methodology. The human-centric process influences the information
system very heavily and a generic approach is adopted for the systemic network and the
thinking is to done on the same basis.
Enterprise integration and the application of systems theory
Integration can be defined as the information required by each of the activity which is
available on a timely basis and accuracy in the format is also required by the and it is
assumed implicitly that there are broader concepts about integration (Busch 2015). The
Enterprise Information system is viewed as the federal aggregation for the multiple
components of the system such as the applications, services or the modules. The basic
integration modes of the integration of an y application are basically three, firstly there is the
peer to peer mode, secondly, the broker based integration and thirdly the business-process
integration. In the peer to peer integration the communication is linked directly and the users
make full use of the interfaces. The in the broker-based system the broker acts as the hub for
the integration of the middleware and the IT applications. The business process integration is

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used as an extension of the broker-based integration system, with inheritance of the
knowledge about the business procedures.
The business models are basically used for capturing the activity in between the
humans and the IT applications (Da Xu 2014). The application logic dimensions are used for
obtaining the ability to manage the interactions in between the applications system and
various presentation interfaces of the application, such as the web browsers and the mobile
computing devices are used as the terminals to the interface of the information systems. The
data logic is basically used for the mapping the data and accessing the same from the
different sectors of the information system designed for the organization (Hung et al. 2015).
This would be very helpful for the management of any business for the organizations.
Conclusion
For conclusion it can be said that the report has been used up to describe some of the
aspects of the Enterprise information system. The description of the Enterprise System
Integration, The Evolution of the Enterprise information system, the system theory and the
system thinking of the Enterprise Information System and the enterprise integration and the
application of the systems theory has been included in this report. The system thinking and
the system theory concepts have also been focused upon in this report and the theory provides
a multi-dimensional vision for the system and also provides a hierarchy for the demonstration
of the Enterprise information system in this report. A concrete support for the system has also
been described in this report. Hence the reader would be easily able to understand the
concepts of Enterprise information system and its integration.

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