Integrating eSystems & Global Information Systems

Madnick, Stuart, and Y. Richard Wang. A Framework of Composite Information Systems for Strategic Advantage . Proceedings of the 1988 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 1988, pp. 35-43.

One important category of strategic applications involves inter-corporate linkage or intra-corporate integration. Applications in this category require multiple systems to work together. This category of Information Systems is referred to as Composite Information Systems (CIS). This paper presents the research issues and directions that may lead to a comprehensive foundation of CIS. This paper also investigates the strategic, technical, and organizational issues involved in CIS and the corresponding research directions.

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