A portal-based approach for user-centric legacy application integration in collaborative environments.
Oliver Gmelch, Günther Pernul · University of Regensburg Publication Server (University of Regensburg) · 2011
\\Networked enterprises"are characterized by distributed teamsof partner organizations, humans, computer applications,autonomous robots, and devices collaborating with each otherin order to achieve higher productivity and to collaboratein joint projects or produce joint products that would havebeen impossible to develop without the contributions of multiplecollaborators. In networked enterprises, special considerationmust be paid to the IT systems which are in theposition to integrate dierent applications across companyboundaries as known from enterprise application integration.At the same time, high requirements are imposedon the employees within such alliances. The contributionof this paper is an architecture for legacy application integrationin web-based portal systems, specically tailored tothe requirements of networked enterprises and focusing ona user-centric approach, allowing the user to customize hisworkspace to his own needs. Following its presentation, theproposed architecture is validated by a prototypical implementation.