Managing information security in a business network of machinery maintenance services business – Enterprise architecture as a coordination tool

Ranking Criteria of Enterprise Information Security Architecture Using Fuzzy Topsis

“…• Pulkkine and others in their article [6] "Managing information security in a business network of machinery maintenance services business -Enterprise architecture as a coordination tool" have illustrated that privacy, information security, and security policies are a roadmap for approaching integrated security management solutions in a business network of partners with heterogeneous information and communication technologies (ICT) [6]. Enterprise architecture (EA) is suggested as a means for comprehensive and coordinated planning and management of corporate ICT and the security infrastructure.…”

Mobile hosts in enterprise service integration

“…Regarding industrial applications, Pulkkinen et al have studied the business of remote maintenance services for machinery equipment in pulp&paper industry [Pulkkinen et al, 2007]. The case company, Metso Paper Inc. specializes in pulp and paper industry processes, machinery, equipment, related know-how, and after sales services.…”

“…The case company, Metso Paper Inc. specializes in pulp and paper industry processes, machinery, equipment, related know-how, and after sales services. There is a need for the cross-organizational secure provisioning of maintenance services by experts who are usually on the move, and who have only their handheld devices, or laptops in the best case [Pulkkinen et al, 2007]. The maintenance experts use mobile phones, PDAs, laptops to access traditional web services that provide functionality for the condition monitoring, billing, maintenance, faults analysis, repair management, and other activities.…”

Information Provision as a Success Factor in the Architectural Support of Enterprise Transformations

“…While enterprise architecture (EA) describes the fundamental structures of an enterprise, EAM is concerned with the establishment and continuous development of EA in order to consistently respond to business and IT goals, opportunities, and necessities [12,13]. Thus, EAM is often found to support the management of ETs [10,14] by guiding the necessary efforts [15][16][17] and eliminating flaws like local optimizations (as opposed to global perspectives) or expensive redundancies [18]. We refer to this support capability of EAM as the architectural support of ETs.…”