The Digital Construction in Multinational Corporations: A Preliminary Study

The international market environment is undergoing rapid change. To advance the development of multinational corporations, the information systems in multinational corporations are expected to be constructed rapidly and optimized timely in accordance with the requirements of international business management. Moreover, the cross-border data in multinational corporations is massive, from which valuable insights can be discovered to support international business management. In this paper, we analyze the challenges of constructing information systems in multinational corporations. We propose that the new architecture with the enterprise middle platform as core should be used in multinational corporations. This architecture could accumulate common system functions, collect business data resources, and provide convenient and reusable services to the front-end information systems. Based on the enterprise middle platform, we could accelerate the construction of the information systems and conduct various data analysis. An information system is developed as an example to show that adopting this new architecture is good for multinational corporations to implement global management. The study in this paper provides meaningful references for multinational corporations to drive digital transformation.