Implementing SAP from end-to-end business process scenarios

International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 419-436

  Bubak, Oldrich ^a   Farley, Robin Lee ^a,b   Goebels, Carsten ^a   Gonzalez, Pier ^a,c   Gulledge, Thomas R ^a,d   Russell, Robert ^a,e  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LMI   (United States)

^c RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^d Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health   (United States)

^e US HQ Army Materiel Command   (United States)

Author keywords

ARIS; Business process; Composite applications; End to End (E2E) scenarios; Enterprise services architecture; SAP; Web services

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744819486     PISSN: 14684330     EISSN: 17418127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMED.2006.009568     Document Type: Article

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