Technology challenges for the global real-time enterprise

Author: Werner Vogels

Source: Journal of Knowledge Management, Volume 8, Number 4, 2004 , pp. 100-104(5)

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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Abstract:

This paper reviews the real-time enterprise from a technology point of view, with a strong focus on the challenges of building globally scalable technology. We analyze the different aspects of the real-time enterprise and the link between the real-time functionality and event driven systems. We then review the major bottlenecks in achieving scalability and robustness for event-driven systems when they need to support global enterprise systems. At a conceptual level the real-time enterprise is extremely promising but neither research nor product groups have the technologies to operate at a global scale in a manner that will allow the real-time enterprise to become a reality, unless a number of significant hurdles are removed. This paper examines the impact of the concept of the real-time enterprise on research agenda of academia as well as product groups, and lays out an agenda for achieving scalability and reliability goals.

Keywords: Organizations; Information Systems; Control

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13673270410548513

Publication date: 2004-04-01