Existing empirical research on the business value of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) has only measured the extent of SOA adoption – but not maturity – to determine whether typical goals, like increased business agility or IT cost reduction, could be achieved. However, a widely implemented SOA might be less mature than an SOA adopted only in particular areas of the organization, which in tu...

The race to keep software compatible and optimal with respect to the latest trends is hard. 90% of software cost can be due to maintenance, and 75% on developing new features to stay competitive and relevant. The industry progresses through periods of incremental development interspersed with true paradigm shifts. Legacy software must keep up the pace. At present we are experiencing one of thes...

the advent of new information technology has radically changed the end-user computing environment over the past decade. to enhance their management decision-making capability, many organizations have made significant investments in business intelligence (bi) systems. in order to achieve increased and sustainable business results, organizations need to use suitable strategy to engage personnel. ...

The contract management process is growing in importance as outsourcing continues to increase and suppliers become virtual extensions of our organization’s competence and capability. Yet, recent studies indicate that organizations are not managing the contracting process as the core competency that it is, nor are they achieving the strategic competitive advantage resulting from a mature contrac...

In recent years, Business Process Management has gained maturity in private and public organizations. Organization own large process collections. Organizing, analyzing, and managing them becomes more complex. In the course of this development, research on Business Process Architectures has gotten more attention over the last decade. A Business Process Architecture describes the relationships be...

Tasks and business entities are the major constituents of processes but they not always considered equally important. The activity-centric approach artifact-oriented one have radically different visions. former focuses on control flow, i.e., representation precedence constraints between tasks, considers dataflow an add-on. latter emphasizes states defines transitions in a declarative way that m...