A research and application about integration of ERP (enterprise resource planning) and B2B (business-to-business)

Information system (IS) architectures have not paid enough attention to integration in the past because integration was not important to build Information Systems. However, with the variety and number of ISs, in several organizations, including ERP systems or some other business solutions such as CRM, SCM, etc., the need and importance for integration is bigger than before. Furthermore, most organizations now want to integrate their ISs with those belonging to other organizations. Shopping on internet via credit cards is an important example for integration. In this study we generally propose an extension to represent enterprise application architectures in order to properly support a large variety of integration scenarios between IS, including intra and inter organizations. In particular we will focus on integration of business solutions into e-commerce. We will have statements especially about one of most popular business solutions, ERP, and we will consider especially B2B e-commerce. In fact, any business solution, such as CRM (Customer Relationship Management) or SCM (SupplyChain Management) could be used, conceptually, in this study. We also present an example to illustrate the proposal with real world IS integration we talk about. In this study, xml technologies and web service architecture on Microsoft .Net platform is used.