Managing enterprise information: meeting performance and conformance objectives in a changing information environment

Managing enterprise information: meeting performance and conformance objectives in a changing information environment

This paper presents the findings of an in-depth survey to examine the current status of enterprise information management (EIM) in organizations. The survey explores five key areas: drivers and capabilities of EIM; current status of EIM strategies; EIM content and technologies; EIM and compliance; and the changing role of the information professional. The survey reveals that the drivers for EIM...

Evolving Information Systems: Meeting the Ever-changing Environment

To meet the demands of organisations and their ever changing environment, information systems are required which are able to evolve to the same extent as organisations do. Such a system has to support changes of all timeand application-dependent aspects. In this paper, requirements and a conceptual framework for evolving information systems are presented. This framework includes an architecture...

The Changing Information Environment

Managing EntErprisE inforMation systEMs for CoMpEtitivE advantagE

Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) provide a technology platform that enable organizations to integrate and coordinate their business processes. They provide a single system that is central to the organization and ensure that information can be shared across all functional levels and management hierarchies (Wikipedia). As a business management system, EIS seek to combine all aspects of the or...

Identifying and Managing Stakeholders in Enterprise Information System Projects

This article focuses on how managers and sponsors of enterprise information system (EIS) projects can identify and manage stakeholders engaged in the project. This article argues that this activity should go beyond the traditional ideas about user participation and management involvement. Also suppliers, customers, government agencies, business partners and the general public can have a clear i...