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333.0. "FWD: ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION - 5/22, MLO" by ULYSSE::ROACH (TANSTAAFL !) Fri May 17 1991 11:42

 

                  I N T E R O F F I C E   M E M O R A N D U M

                                        Date:     16-May-1991 05:30pm CET
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Subject: FWD: ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION - 5/22, MLO

From:	AUSTIN::KUHLMAN "Bill Kuhlman (512) 338-3243  15-May-1991 1217"   15-MAY-1991 15:17:09.72
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Subj:	ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION - 5/22, MLO

TITLE:	  "Enterprise Integration Planning Workshop"

SPEAKERS:  Dr. Jay M. Tenenbaum 
           President, Enterprise Integration Technology Corporation

           Roy Smith
           Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC)

DATE:      Wednesday, May 22, 1991

TIME:      9:00 - 11:30 A.M.

PLACE:     Hinchcliffe Conference Room, MLO5-4, pole 45B
           (adjacent to Mill cafeteria)

HOST:      Technology Planning & Development, CRA


"Enterprise Integration" encompasses computing technology and business 
practices for a commercial information infrastructure that will connect 
people and systems within and across enterprises, enabling them to develop, 
manufacture, sell, deliver, and support products and services with 
unprecedented speed, flexibility, quality, and economy.	

Increasingly, the productivity of complex, global enterprises is limited not 
by labor or capital, but information.  Getting a product rapidly to market, 
for example, depends on countless, highly interdependent, informed decisions 
by hundreds or thousands of individuals, senior executives to production 
workers, spread around the globe at corporate headquarters, engineering 
centers, factories, suppliers, and subcontractors.  Informed decision making 
under these conditions is slow, suboptimal and conflict prone:  the only way the
system works today is through the built-in inefficiencies of resource buffers 
-- time, space, people, inventory, and design margins.

Such inefficiencies are becoming intolerable under the relentless pressures of 
global competition.  Surviving and winning in the 1990s will demand a new breed 
of enterprise with highly developed, self-organizing "nervous systems": 
receptors wired into the environment, autonomic reflexes that can respond 
instantaneously to disruptions and change, and cognitive faculties that can 
integrate complex information, recognize patterns and plan future actions.  
Unlike their biological counterparts, the nervous systems of electronic 
enterprises extend beyond boundaries of "self", opening the possibility of 
societies of enterprises that can cooperate intimately to accomplish their 
mutual goals.
	
This workshop will help define MCC's Enterprise Integration Initiative and 
Digital's participation.  For the first hour, Tenenbaum and Smith will talk
about the EI Initiative's goals, strategies and technology directions.  In the 
remaining time, there will be a discussion which centers on these questions:  
How does Digital define EI?  What are the general requirements/opportunities?   
What are the specific requirements/opportunities which MCC can help with?  
How is Digital willing to participate in this effort?

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Dr. Jay M. Tenenbaum is developing and organizing an MCC research initiative 
in the area of enterprise integration.  Dr. Tenenbaum is President of 
Enterprise Integration Technology Corporation (EIT), a Palo Alto-based R&D 
and consulting organization.  He is a consulting professor of computer science 
at Stanford University.  He holds degrees in Electrical Engineering and 
Computer Science from M.I.T. and Stanford.  Prior to founding EIT, Dr. 
Tenenbaum served as director of Fairchild's Laboratory for Artificial 
Intelligence Research and was a Schlumberger fellow and director of advanced 
research projects at Schlumberger Technologies.

Mr. Roy Smith is the acting Director of the Enterprise Integration Program at 
MCC.  He joined the MCC CAD Program in mid-1989 as Director of the CAD 
Framework Satellite responsible for medium to long-term research of design 
automation framework technologies.  He previously was Director of Engineering, 
Advanced Products Division, of Mentor Graphics Corporation.  Prior to joining 
Mentor, he was Software Engineering Director for Seattle Silicon Technology 
and held various management and engineering positions at Hewlett-Packard.  
He holds degrees in computer science and mathematics from New Mexico Institute
of Mining and Technology.

Distribution:


TO:
Renee Bacherman@HSO Tom Coughlin@HSO    DENNIS DICKERSON@DL STEVE DONOVAN@DLO   
Tommy Gaut@HSO      Ed Hurry@DVO        Ken Hyatt@HSO       Kay Kenyon@HSO      
Chuck McCarley@HSO  Bill Parker@HSO     Louis Pau@VBE       Jim Rather@HSO      
jim rather@HSO      Pat Roach@VBE       Carolyn Rodriguez@S Czarena Siebert@HSO 
Mike Sievers@HSO    Dale Stout@HSO      Susan Sugar@MWO     Barbara Walls@SCA   
Sherry Williams@HSO Mike Willis@HSO     Tom Wilson@HST      Mickie Wright@HSO