Levels of Enterprise Integration: Study Using Case Analysis

International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems (IJEIS)

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-22

  Grant, Delvin ^a   Tu, Qiang ^b  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

case studies; enterprise; ERP; islands of technology; levels of integration

Indexed keywords

EID: 85001555277     PISSN: 15481115     EISSN: 15481123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jeis.2005010101     Document Type: Article

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