Title: Romanian
SMEs Information Integration
Abstract: Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) increasingly
consider information as an important resource. The challenge consists in
using all the integration techniques of the day – whether they are information,
data, application systems or even business-process integration – to build
an Information Technology platform that can meet the demands of real-time
businesses. The research that this paper draws on aims to identify the challenges
that Romanian SMEs will have to face in the context of EU integration and
in the contemporary global business environment. Our objectives consist in
identifying the advantages implied by the implementation of the new information
technologies, the extent to which SMEs management is aware of these advantages,
and in identifying the main technological solution that will offer support
to the development of these businesses as Enterprise Resource Planning products.
We consider that the description of the European SMEs and national framework
is particularly relevant in tracing down the arguments for the necessity
of information integration.
Authors: Doina Fotache and Ana Grama