Today companies have to deal with the problem of improving their services by providing new functionalities, due to customer requests, marketplace needs and rapidly changing technologies. Old systems can’t be fully replaced because they represent a reliable resource on which companies are still basing their core-business, so there is a need to extend companies’ functionalities without changing a...

Enterprise resource planning systems (ERPs) are now being implemented in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). In addition to allowing for the integration of technological architectures, these systems make best practices available to small firms. This paper presents the results of a study that was aimed at identifying the dimensions of SMEs’ readiness for the adoption of this new technology.

Today human resource Strategies are very important for human resource systems. While talking about strategies, integration and coordination is something is much more importance than strategies formulation and implementations. This study presents a model for the strategic development of human resource based on competencies model. In fact, the main question of this research is: What are the affec...

Web-portal based approach can significantly improve the entire corporate information infrastructure. The approach proposed provides for rapid and accurate front-end integration of heterogeneous corporate applications including enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Human resources ERP component and multimedia data warehouse implementations are discussed as essential instances.

T oday's manufacturing enterprise, whether it produces consumer goods or weapons systems , must often juggle a range of conflicting demands. Smaller lot sizes, increased product flexibility, higher product quality, decreased delivery time, and smaller profit margins are typical of the ambitious goals in many such organizations. Through it all, the enterprise must consistently aim for the five R...

European Journal of Information Systems (2005) 14, 107–109. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000534 This special issue of the European Journal of Information Systems presents a diverse collection of papers that address the very important issue of Making Enterprise Systems Work. This issue is largely concerned with how technology can facilitate, support, and enable the automation and integration of th...

The past literature on information systems and supply chain management has broadly argued on how information systems could impact indirectly a firm’s performance, specifically in terms of process integrations with suppliers and customers. The tendency to deliberate on external process integration has altered the firm’s focus from internal process integration which used to be considered as one o...

For Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems such as SAP R/3 or IBM SanFrancisco, the tailoring of reference models for customizing the ERP systems to specific organizational contexts is an established approach. In this paper, we present a methodology that uses such reference models as a starting point for a top-down integration of enterprise applications. The re-engineered models of legacy s...