Virtual enterprise — Information system and networking solution

The term “virtual enterprise” has been used in articulating the strategy for the 21st century global manufacturing enterprises. One of the key requirements is to develop an Information System infrastructure to integrate and control the interoperability of the distributed, heterogeneous and concurrent systems in the participating organizations. This article presents an innovative Information System infrastructure and itʹs Networking Solution to help describing global information technology support for inter-organizational enterprises with the background of modern information and communication technology. Three types of technology are focused on: Data warehouse, Process warehouse and Intranet/Extranet. A project of a “Plug-and-Play” Virtual Enterprise is also presented.