Real Time Enterprises: A Continuous Migration Approach

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Khosla, Vinod | Pal, Murugan

Affiliations: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, 2750 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA, E-mail: [email protected] | Asera, Inc., 600 Clipper Drive, Belmont, California 94002, USA, E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract: Current market trends, global competition, and technological innovations are driving enterprises to adopt new approaches to enterprise systems. Real Time Enterprises are organizations that enable automation of processes spanning different systems, media, and enterprise boundaries. Real Time Enterprises provide real time information to employees, customers, suppliers, and partners and implement processes to ensure that all information is current and consistent across all systems, minimizing batch and manual processes related to information. To achieve this, systems for a Real Time Enterprise must be adaptable to change and accept change as the process. This paper provides guidelines, associated ground rules, and an overall approach to transformation to a Real Time Enterprise.

Journal: Information · Knowledge · Systems Management, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 53-79, 2002