Association for Enterprise Integration: people--process--technology--information.The Association for Enterprise Integration (AFEI AFEI Association For Enterprise Integration ) is the industry association contributing to understanding the challenges, opportunities and benefits associated with information sharing See data conferencing. across and within the extended enterprise. Corporations, universities, government agencies and individuals join AFEI to: * Benefit from the networking opportunities. * Help shape future requirements, strategy and policy. * Learn about technologies, products and methods that can enhance organizational performance Organizational performance comprises the actual output or results of an organization as measured against its intended outputs (or goals and objectives). Specialists in many fields are concerned with organizational performance including strategic planners, operations, . * Stay abreast of developments in policy, programs and initiatives that will impact their markets and business relationships. * Demonstrate their thought-leadership contributions to enterprise integration. The AFEI Mission and Goals The AFEI mission is to: * Provide collaboration opportunities amongst industry, academia and government on an unbiased and open basis. * Represent neutral and objective industry positions and recommendations on net-centricity issues through forums, working groups and committees. * Create opportunities for learning and networking through conferences and symposia sym·po·si·a n. A plural of symposium. deliberately designed to bring previously unconnected communities with common issues together to develop synergy and shared experiences. The goals of the association are to promote the network-enabled and information-sharing enterprise through the development and evolution of: People. Manage culture and change--the most difficult and important of all. Process. Streamline and transform not just methods, but how we think about our problems. Technology. Connect data with users through interoperable, open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced and architectures. Information. Promote information sharing through a common language of business, ontology ontology: see metaphysics. ontology Theory of being as such. It was originally called “first philosophy” by Aristotle. In the 18th century Christian Wolff contrasted ontology, or general metaphysics, with special metaphysical theories and taxonomy taxonomy: see classification. taxonomy In biology, the classification of organisms into a hierarchy of groupings, from the general to the particular, that reflect evolutionary and usually morphological relationships: kingdom, phylum, class, order, , metadata repositories and reuse, service-oriented, process-oriented and event-driven architectures, semantic interoperability  This article or section may be confusing or unclear for some readers.Please [improve the article] or discuss this issue on the talk page. and standardization. AFEI engages government and industry in collaborations push the current state of information sharing. Working Groups AFEI Working Groups were formed in July 2003. They are open to participation by any with legitimate interest in working on net-centric operations issues. The working groups are: * Data Sharing The ability to share the same data resource with multiple applications or users. It implies that the data are stored in one or more servers in the network and that there is some software locking mechanism that prevents the same set of data from being changed by two people at the same time. and Services Strategy * Information Assurance * Architecture * Commercial Acquisition Practices * Wireless and Communications International AFEI has an international affiliate, AFEI Belgium, that aims to integrate the Belgian government and industry into the AFEI community in order to evolve to and to achieve the Integrated Society. Membership Membership is open to corporate, nonprofit, government and individual members. To join AFEI, please visit our website: www.afei.org. Board of Directors The AFEI Board of Directors sets the strategy and vision for AFEI and provides governance of its affairs. AFEI annually elects directors from corporate organizations or individual members. For a complete list of the board, please visit www.afei.org. Staff: David E. Chesebrough, P.E. President (703) 247-2597 Nicole Peterson Director, Finance (703) 247-9474 Betsy Lauer Director, Business Operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets (703) 247-9473 www.afei.org |
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