ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION - ISSUES AND METHODS

The necessity of maintaining lean operations and becoming an 'agile en terprise', in which the speed and flexibility at which a company funct ions matches that of its technology, is widely accepted. Information t echnology is providing the means for companies to integrate better the ir internal and external activities. This level of integration is achi eved through 'enterprisewide systems' that reflect the current operati ons and processes of the business and allow decision-makers to digest information more rapidly and accurately, and with more flexibility. Th e objective of this paper is to review some of the current literature concerning enterprise integration and to identify and discuss the main issues that need to be considered before attempting to establish ente rprise-wide integration.