Realizing the Benefits of Massification

Realizing the business benefits of Enterprise IT

The development and implementation of IT/IS systems inherently requires a deep understanding of user requirements. However, experience shows that a key barrier to the success of an IT/IS system, is the manner by which it is adopted by end users. As such, this viewpoint article presents an overview of those typical enterprise IT user traits as experience by the author. These traits are placed in...

Realizing the Benefits of the CMMI with the CeBASE Method

Future systems will be increasingly software-intensive, but the type of software development they will need is not well covered by current development and maturity models such as the waterfall model and Software Capability Maturity Model (CMM). Future development of software-intensive systems will need situation-specific balancing of discipline and flexibility to address such issues as COTS, op...

Realizing the Benefits of Full-Field Digital Mammography

The Role of Organizational Factors in Realizing ERP Benefits

Today, enterprise resource planning (ERP) software systems are one the fastest growing segments of the business–software industry. They offer a single system linking all corporate operations, including planning, manufacturing, sales, vendor relations, inventory control, human resources, and accounting. Companies around the world spent billions of dollars and expended untold man-hours installing...

Realizing Business Processes with ECA Rules: Benefits, Challenges, Limits

Event-Condition-Action (ECA) rules offer a flexible, adaptive, and modular approach to realizing business processes. This article discusses the use of ECA rules for describing business processes in an executable manner. It investigates the benefits one hopes to derive from using ECA rules and presents the challenges in realizing business processes. These constitute a list of requirements for an...