Enterprise systems

Watson I. Applying case-based reasoning techniques for enterprising systems. San Francisco Morgan Kaufmann, 1997. 

Finally, several experts and industry representatives indicate that the responsibility for securing control systems typically includes two separate groups IT security personnel and control system engineers and operators. IT security personnel tend to focus on securing enterprise systems, while control system engineers and operators tend to be more concerned with the reliable performance of their control systems. Further, they indicate that, as a result, those two groups do not always fully understand each other s requirements nor collaborate to implement secure control systems. 

Carolyn Beck Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA Paul H. Bernardo Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences, Singapore, Singapore... 

Various types of optical fibers are used for specific applications. For example, multimode fibers are used primarily in enterprise systems buildings, offices, campuses. Special single-mode transmission fibers exist for submarine applications, and for metropolitan and long-haul terrestrial applications. And in addition to these transmission fibers, there are various specialty fibers for performing dispersion compensation (dispersion compensating fiber), optical amplification (erbium-doped fiber), and other special functions. 

These abstraction layers offer tremendous benefits to the software development process with reduced development complexity and costs and increased productivity. Application server platforms and blueprints also provide software development frameworks to help the software fit into specific architecture patterns. One of the most commonly adopted software architecture patterns for enterprise systems is the layered architecture (Buschmann et al., 1996 Fowler, 2003a). It is also the heart of the J2EE blueprint (Alur et al., 2003). 

The United States of America has been for many years and still is the Number One industrial nation in the world. It reached this position because it has plentiful supplies of raw energy sources, other raw materials, skilled labor and management and the free enterprise system under which to operate. 

Lest we forget, the only way this country is going to solve its energy problems is to let the marketplace and the free enterprise system work. Get the government off our backs and let people and companies who know how to find and produce oil and gas do so and let the people and companies who know how to mine coal and uranium do so. 

Perrone, P.J. and Chaganti, V.S.R.K.R., Building Java Enterprise Systems with J2EE, SAMS, Indianapolis, IN, 2000. 

There is no question in my mind that business and the free enterprise system are essential to making sustainability work. Our focus at Dow is on hard-wiring it into our company in the same way we have fully institutionalized environment, health and safety into our culture and into our work and people processes. Our challenge is to make sustainability sustainable. Ultimately, the world will judge our commitment to sustainability not by what we say, but by what we do. 

We believe in the inherent virtues of the American free enterprise system and will do all we can to ensure the ability of independent community pharmacists to compete in a free and fair marketplace. 

In the free enterprise system, if profits are not maintained, the firm s growth might be stifled. The objective is to maximize profit on invested capital. The attractiveness of a venture is viewed by corporate officers and boards based on quantitative and qualitative measures of profitability. Although we use the term profitability loosely to measure a project s worthiness, it may not be a good measure. Drucker (1974) has said that profitability is not a perfect measurement no one has ever been able to define it, and yet it is a measurement despite all its imperfections. ... 

The new breed of international customers, with their sophistication and instant communication systems, will deal only with suppliers who are equally sophisticated and fast on their feet. European and Japanese competitors have practiced the fine art of doing business on a world scale for many years, and many, particularly the Japanese, are now able to offer services which cannot be matched by most American-based companies. We must find some way of providing counterpart services within our free-enterprise system if we are to compete with these companies. 

One strength of the American system, beyond the collaboration between industry and academic institutions of high quality, rests in the competition between laboratories, a hallmark of the free enterprise system. Although it is difficult to assign ultimate credit for discoveries, it is safe to say that the industrial laboratories make a significant contribution to science. They stand now as the prime developers of new medicinals, a fact pointed out by Sir Derrick Dunlop (2) in a statement made in 1967 Of the seventy most valuable drugs introduced to medicine in this century since the discovery of aspirin in 1899, sixty were discovered and developed by scientists in the laboratories of industry. ... 

Should new companies be set up in competition with old established members of the industry To me the American free enterprise system makes it mandatory to help any legitimate prospect to an extent dependent on his ultimate potential. 

Capital formation and utilization are vital to the free enterprise system and the free enterprise system is the best overall climate for innovation. 

A comprehensive business model can provide the enterprise context within which the engineer conducts his or her process analysis. Specifically, the model displays how and where the process fits into the enterprise system, what other processes are affected by it, and what business and information systems must support it. This context helps the engineer make sure that proposed process changes will not degrade the performance of other processes and systems. 

The comprehensive business model paints a picture of the entire enterprise system. It depicts not only the internal operations of the enterprise, but the external forces that act upon it. Strategies, business objectives, business risks, and management controls are reflected, as well. Because of its comprehensiveness, the model helps management address key questions about the enterprise ... 

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