In recent years, the use of multiple data sources for enterprise resource planning and decision making have become increasingly important. Information sharing among organizations can help achieve important public benefits such as increased productivity, improved policy-making, and integrated public services. This paper reviews uses of multiple data sources for enterprise resource planning and d...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are widely used by many multinational companies throughout the world. Recently, many institutions of higher learning have replaced their legacy systems to ERP systems as a means for integration advantages. Investment with this ERP system are representing the largest investment for institutions of higher learning, they invest millions of dollars and the...

This article presents the process of design and implementation of a holistic knowledge management infrastructure for R&D organizations from human resources (HR) perspective. The approach addresses HR challenges such as support for an open and flexible organizational structure, support for managing the specific assets of an R&D organization, supports for analysis and reporting, both internally a...

This study investigates some underlying technological factors for linking enterprise resource planning (ERP) to supply chain management (SCM) systems. ERP systems serve technological requirements across functional areas within a corporate boundary while SCM systems focus on collaborative relationships with partners in the supply chain, emphasizing business process integration and information sh...

With the ceaseless development of new and more advanced technologies, along with their growing influence and control over business and commerce, it is no surprise that the educational community is struggling to come up with programs to educate students to adequately handle these developments. Textbooks are becoming a thing of the past, for information and standards are changing faster than any ...

Service orientation has emerged as a new promising paradigm for enterprise integration in the manufacturing sector. In this article, we focus on the approach and technologies for constructing a service oriented manufacturing environment. The service orientation is achieved via virtualization in which everything, including machines, equipments, devices, various data sources, applications, and pr...

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has brought about first and foremost by the nonstop changing businesses. New products, new customers, new partners, new counterparts, and ambitious business process management implay ongoing software modifications. Point-to-point integration of enterprise resource planning systems, legacy systems and other enterprise applications cause out of control costs as...

This paper explores what high-performing firms specifically do to gain the greatest benefits from their IT investments. It identifies several IT-specific factors such as Data/Process Standardization, Systems Integration and Application Integration as practices that are correlated with significant IT impact on a key business performance metric: customer satisfaction. The firms interviewed in thi...

Difficulty of teaching concepts of business processes and business process orientation using traditional teaching and learning methods is well recognized in the literature. This paper reports on the effectiveness of an initiative that employs ‘ERPSim’, an ERP Business simulation game that uses a simulated and complex business environment supported by industry standard software, SAP. Using this ...

To ensure the operability and reliability of large scale Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP) and enterprise services, a peak-load oriented hardware sizing is often used, which results in low average utilization. The evaluation of historical load data revealed that many applications show cyclical resource consumption. The identification of load patterns can be used for static as well as d...