Welcome to the official web site of the first IEEE SMC conference focusing on Enterprise Systems (ES 2013). We are proud to announce that ES 2013 will be hosted in Cape Town, South Africa, 7-8 November 2013 at the Cape Town International Convention Center. Cape Town is the second-most populated city in South Africa after Johannesburg, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality. The city is famous for its harbour as well as its natural setting in the Cape floral kingdom, including such well-known landmarks as Table Mountain and Cape Point. Cape Town is also Africa's most popular tourist destination. ES 2013 will be co-hosted by the IEEE SMC TC on Enterprise Information Systems and the IEEE SMC TC on Enterprise Architecture and Engineering.