Mobile phones have been closed environments until recent years. The change brought by open platform technologies such as Symbian operating system and Javatechnologies have opened up a significant business opportunity for anyone to develop application software such as games for the mobile terminals. The keynote approaches the topic from both the business and the development perspectives and outl...

Most organizations today are required not only to operate effective business processes but they are required to accommodate for changing business conditions at an increasing rate. Today nearly every business relies on their Enterprise Systems (ES) for process integration and future generations of ES will increasingly be driven by business process models. Consequently business process modeling a...

The ability to cope with change is one of the biggest challenges companies arefacing today [JLN08]. Methods to increase business agility, such as outsourcingor off-shoring of non-core parts of the business are practiced already and willcontinue to play an important role in the future. A change in business howeveralways means to also change the underlying IT infrastructure, which...

Today, outsourcing is recognized as one of the most effective strategies in the business world. In this regard, outsourcing of business processes is considered to be one of the most common forms of outsourcing. The purpose of this study is to provide In-depth and quantitative analysis of the benefits of BPO in a dairy plant in Iran and how these benefits affect the willingness of senior plant m...

Data Warehouse (DWH) information is accessed by business processes. Today, no conceptual models exist that make the relationship between the DWH and the business processes transparent. In this paper, we extend a business process modeling diagram, namely the UML 2 activity diagram with a UML profile, which allows to make this relationship explicit. The model is tested with example business proce...

What do IT and business executives need to do about enterprise systems in the years ahead? This paper reports the findings of an 18-month study, sponsored by the Advanced Practices Council of the Society for Information Management (SIM) International. The study addressed systems integration issues with both an internal and an external focus, but this chapter primarily addresses external systems...

according to the changing business, nowadays teams are cornerstones of successful organizations, in addition, with the developments and technological innovations in communication and information, virtual teams are playing more critical role in today's business. on this basis, determining factors which affect virtual team's performance are important to both scholars and practitioners. ...

Abstract: Today, architecture and business processes are modeled separately. The only integration in architectural diagrams is done with Petri nets in the Fundamental Modeling Concept. Since business users prefer EPCs over Petri nets, we show how information of extended EPCs can be transformed into business landscapes. This facilitates development of IT landscapes satisfying the requirements of...

The emerging field of interoperability research has come up with a vast number of concepts and technical solutions. However, until today, those technical interoperability solutions are not yet sufficiently linked to the business problems they address. This paper systemizes typical interoperability issues from a business perspective (described by seven Business Interoperability Profiles) and ide...

Introduction This paper proposes a research program on Business Process Innovation: Towards Global Supply Chain Intelligence. Few words are more ubiquitous in business or society today than " innovation ". This reflects that businesses are striving for ways to survive and thrive in an increasingly complex and connected world (IBM 2006). Most industrial supply chains today are globally scattered...