Concurrency and parallelism is getting more and more important also for business applications because most of the future gain in runtime efficiency will come from the use of multicore processors. Enterprise systems are usually very complex systems that have organically grown often over decades, and they are designed and optimized to run on single-core processors with no concurrency and parallelism involved. 

The question that we would like to address is how concurrency theory can help applications so complex as enterprise systems make use of the full potential provided by the multicore processors without compromising the factors that are important to business applications: robustness, backwards-compatibility, scalability, data-safety, transactional integrity to only mention a few. We believe that enterprise systems due to their complexity in size and structure are a perfect playing field to validate the practicability of novel approaches in concurrency that have so far only be tested in a smaller scale.