The Virtual Enterprise Computer (VEC) is a method for creating a single virtual, enterprise-wide computing environment consisting of a single, enterprise-wide persistent
address space to uniquely identify and location enterprise data and intellectual assets, a single, enterprise-wide, persistent memory as a single source for all enterprise data, resources and intellectual assets, an enterprise-wide persistent knowledge repository that models the
business enterprise by maintaining relationships between business processes, workflows, business rules,
business metrics, data, resources, legacy systems and intellectual assets, self-aware agents encapsulating data and computer code, a real-time event / logic controller to manage the execution of agents eliminating data
pollution and data duplication, conserving knowledge assets, creating an enterprise-wide
collaboration environment, enhancing the flow and sharing of information and knowledge, permitting the arbitration of intellectual resources across the
business enterprise, providing a foundation architecture and knowledge infrastructure to address numerous business initiatives including: the Seamless
Business Enterprise the Real-Time
Business Enterprise Enterprise
Knowledge Management Single-View of the
Business Enterprise Enterprise Application Integration Coherent Business Enterprise Straight-Through-
Processing Collaborative Work Environments Mergers and Acquisitions
Single View of Customers and Suppliers
Enterprise Resource Planning Enterprise Business
Processing Reengineering
Business Intelligence intelligent Business Enterprise Optimized Business Enterprise Enterprise Business Modeling.