Investigation Into Modern Corporate Information System Collaboration

Growing with the tide of globalization, the modern business values the opinion of cooperation more and more, which consequently leads the corporate information system turning its way to collaborative. The thesis focuses on the research of Collaborative Information System (CIS). It leads off by probing into the origin of modern collaboration concepts. After analyzing some typical concepts such as Core Competence and Supply Chain, it arrives at the Collaborative Product Commerce (CPC), which is put forward by the famous consulting group Aberdeen. On the bases of these theories, the thesis studies the limitations of the modern CIS, brings forward a theory about the collaboration of information system. It proposes that the collaboration of corporate information system should include two part: intra integration and inter collaboration, and also develops the implement strategies for both two parts separately.On the groundwork of collaborative theory of corporate information system, the thesis also identifies the concept of CPC and compares it with others such as ERPII, extended CRM and PLM. From the standpoint of a system engineer, the author analyzes the available technologies in developing the CIS, The author considers that the Object-Orient technology prevails over the traditional process-orient technology in system analyzing and designing, and distributed database meets the requirements of CIS better. At the end of this thesis, author outlines the prospective CIS, which might be improved with the developing information technology.