• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.103-115
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• 2005

For today's enterprises to survive in the current rapidly changing business environments, it is imperative to make quick and successful decisions to various challenges. In making important business decisions, if enterprises utilize business rules and knowledge, properly and promptly, they may effectively reduce the chance of failures. However, in most of today's information systems, these rules and knowledge are not managed in centralized and systemic manner. They disperse over entire enterprises' information systems, and sometimes reside in the heads or memos of enterprises' employees. BRE (Business Rule Engines) is a solution that systematically and centrally manages these business knowledge and rules of an enterprise. With BREs, any business user is able to store, edit, retrieve and utilize business rules and knowledge in centralized repository, without IT development skills. And with BRE, enterprises could improve business intelligence and attain strategic advantages over other enterprises. However, since there is no clear criteria for BRE introductions, it is not easy to decide whether or not to introduce the expensive BRE solution to an enterprise. In this research we propose a decision model for BRE introduction. Using this model, business analysts considering BRE introduction, readily make decisions on BRE introduction.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.109-120
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• 2006

Enterprise Content Integration (ECI)is an IT strategy that improves enterprise' competitive advantages by integrating enterprise wide information and content into a unified view, which in turn supports efficient and effective decision making. Content Syndication Systems (CSS) is a solution that implements the ECI strategy. In semi-conductor industries, it is usual that enterprise content is scattered over tens of legacy systems. Therefore, engineers in semi-conductor companies spend a few hours to locate required engineering information on a daily basis as part of their jobs. In this paper, we develop an enterprise CSS system that integrates enterprise wide contents into a unified view that is suitable for semi-conductor industries. For this research, we first define enterprise CSS, then identify their systems requirements. Then we propose an architecture supporting the identified requirements, and present the implemented prototype. One of the most important requirements is the individualized subscription rule setting for engineering information. For this purpose, we developed methods to represent the information properties and subscription rules.