Summary and Conclusions

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An IOS is an information and management system that transcends organizational boundaries via electronic linkages with its trading partners. Extranets are the core technology for building IOS. There is a host of other technologies that serve as the infrastructure for managing IOS. They include coordination technologies, monitoring technologies, filtering and negotiating technologies (intelligent agents), and decision-making and knowledge management technologies. This chapter briefly discussed each of these technologies. We examined the architecture and components of both public network extranets and VPN extranets, along with the applications of the extranet. During the late 1990s, an increasing number of companies opened part of their intranets and made information available to their business partners for facilitating business, thereby creating a dynamic wide area network that links suppliers, customers, and other business partners in a secure electronic environment. We are now witnessing the emergence of industrial networks (extended enterprises, integrated industry-wide systems) that link the enterprise systems of multiple firms in the same industry vertically (manufacturers, suppliers, and suppliers’ supplier) as well as horizontally (linking competing firms in an industry).



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Inter-Organizational Information Systems in the Internet Age
Inter-Organizational Information Systems in the Internet Age
ISBN: 1591403189
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 148

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