In order to increase enterprise performance, economics paradigms focus, now more than ever, on how to better manage information. The modern architecture of information systems is based on distributed networks with a grand challenge representing and sharing knowledge managed by those ISs. One of the main issues in making such heterogeneous Cooperative Information Systems (CIS) working together i...

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 research-in-progress paper reports preliminary findings of a study that is designed to identify characteristics of an expert in the discipline of Information Systems (IS). The paper delivers a formative research model to depict characteristics of an expert with three additive constructs, using concepts derived from psychology, knowledge management and social-behaviour research. The paper t...

Article history: Received 19 August 2010 Received in revised form 31 December 2010 Accepted 11 January 2011 Event studies are based on the theoretical framework of efficient capital markets and the notion that security prices include all information available to the market. As a result, announcements made by firms provide to market participants information that can be impounded into the market ...

Among the new forms of technology that overwhelm information systems research and practice, configurable information systems refers to technologies that are built up from a range of components to meet the very specific requirements of a particular client organization. Software packages like enterprise resources planning (ERP) are good illustrations of configurable IS because they typically prov...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are recognized as having unintuitive interfaces and being difficult to use. At least part of the reason for these problems comes from the complexity of the processes they support and the need for generic interfaces that can be adapted for use by a wide range of industries. We examine here the application of usage logs and AI planning to strengthen the ...

Enterprise resource planning systems (ERP systems) are enterprise information systems designed to support business processes. They partially or completely include functions such as order processing, purchasing, production scheduling, dispatching, financial accounting and controlling (Monk et. al., 2005). ERP systems are the backbone of information management in many industrial and commercial en...

This work presents an object-oriented approach to model business processes in production systems using workflow concepts. We define an object reference model called C-Wf that represents the structural and functional enterprise elements involved in the business processes, such as enterprise activities, human resources, machines, etc. Through the C-Wf reference model classes it is possible to bui...

It has been more than two decades of experience adopting and implementing enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems in business. However, the success these remains debatable. The failure rate ERP is relatively high, despite fact that stories ERPs are recorded earlier research studies. main purpose this study to identify assess degree implementation factors encountered by organisations confirm ...