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Extended Enterprise Integration Model Associated with Automation Index

Authors:
Rita Bittar
Oswaldo Agostinho
Gislaine Fernandes

Keywords: Extended Enterprise; Automation Index; Business Process; Integration; Information Technology.

Abstract:
The enterprise of the years 2000 are facing competition in various fronts, like reduction of product life time, increase of diversification, reduction of customer response time, competition internationalization. Due to those factors, it became necessary to reach a higher degree of relationship between the enterprise and suppliers network and customers networks, avoid unnecessary costs and response time between then. Besides that, the utilization of automation is not necessarily done with balanced criteria, creating isles of excellence divorced from the rest of organization. The paper proposes a integration model of the Extended Enterprise that associates automation growth with business process model of the organization in order to create an integration environment that will minimize the application, maintaining the information flows as balanced as possible. The integration status is obtained applying the same level of automation in the various activities of the business processes, measured through automation indexes, resulting in a model which levels of integration of the Extended Enterprise and discussed in a holistic mode.

Pages: 243 to 249

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: June 24, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4529

ISBN: 978-1-61208-202-8

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from June 24, 2012 to June 29, 2012