SOA-Based Business Process Integration System for Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturing Enterprises

Traditional enterprise application integration mainly focuses on data exchange, while business process integration allows the iterative matching of business prospects with workflow management. A service oriented architecture is presented for intra-and inter-applications of manufacturing enterprises to integrate business processes through enterprise portal. The up-to-date achievements of SOA techniques and XML Messaging can be fully utilized. Such an approach takes low investment and a short period of implementation.