Resumen
This article proposes the use of enterprise framework to achieve improvements at bottom-lines of the information industry. Enterprise frameworks addresses broad application domains such as telecommunications, avionics, financial services, and manufacturing. The enterprise frameworks can provide a substantial return on investment since they directly support the development of end-user applications and products. This article discusses the strategic budgetary, marketing, technical, and managerial advantages that impact an organization's bottom-line and its ability to support and adapt to changes in the marketplace. And finally characterizes the broader economic impact that are anticipated to result from the enterprise framework marketplace. The article concludes that while the short-term cost of entry for enterprise frameworks is higher than traditional alternatives, the life-cycle costs are less and return on investment is greater due to the ability to rapidly deploy and extend enterprise frameworks.

Resumen
As information technology provides industry with means to identify new product and service opportunities, the increasing demand for these products and services places new demands on information technology. This cycle has created unprecedented requirements for integrated enterprise systems and applications, which are capable of modeling rapid changes in business policies, workflow and informational processing. A new breed of systems we refer to as object-oriented enterprise frameworks (OOEFs) has emerged to address these requirements. Research has studied trends in OOEF'S, guidelines for developing OOEFs and economic benefits of enterprise frameworks. OOEFs are designed to reduce the complexity and cost of enterprise systems and therefore have become strategic assets for organizations across all business sectors. Evidence of this is reflected in the recent entry of flexible and extensible products for commercially available, framework-based applications. Framework requirements are also defined.