ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION BY MARKET-DRIVEN SCHEMA EVOLUTION

The way enterprises are organizing their processes is ultimately dicta ted by the requirements of their markets. Enterprises serving slowly c hanging markets prefer a functional decomposition of their work force into departments with information flows along the hierarchy. Quickly c hanging markets require quick redefinition of implemented functions an d information flows in the distributed information systems of the ente rprise. This paper proposes conceptual modeling facilities and a trade r architecture which enable a bottom-up, market-driven evolution of th e information system schemes. A case study has been undertaken in the area of distributed quality management. The trader has been implemente d with the meta database manager ConceptBase. The information systems realize the information flows via federated SQL servers.