Business models used in the software industry constantly evolve. Organizations reconfigure their business models through various means and mergers and acquisitions (M&As) is one of the way. Recent past has witnessed a high frequency of M&As in the software industry. There are some unique factors that potentially influence M&As in the software industry. Using theoretical arguments, this study de...

In this paper, we describe an innovative approach to the challenges associated with managing corporate records in the digital environment. Issues and problems with the use of EDRMS are well documented but alternatives are not yet mature enough for workplace implementation. The recordkeeping functionality of Microsoft SharePoint is disputed by practitioners, but this enterprise content managemen...

Today, information is increasingly becoming a key business resource and organizations begin to implement Enterprise Content Management Systems (ECMS) to share those information. ECMS is an emerging approach that enables efficient sharing of business-related information. However, there is still a significant lack of knowledge on how to efficiently make use of these technologies for sharing infor...

The aim of the research is to understand how Enterprise Content Management System (ECMS) is adapted to a context-of-use within an organisation during implementation and use. It will examine the dynamics of software, use and context-of-use in the ECMS adaptation. We employ conceptual studies, empirical studies, and qualitative data analysis to support our research. We aim to develop a framework ...

Content Management Systems (CMS) are typically regarded as critical software platforms for the success of organizational web sites and intranets. Nevertheless, a simple CMS alone does not provide enough support for a typical organization’s requirements, such as document management and storage. On the other hand, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems are typically regular web-applications ...

This paper presents the results of a case study on the impacts of implementing Enterprise Content Management Systems (ECMSs) in an organization. It investigates how these impacts are influenced by the functionalities of an ECMS and by the nature of the ECMS-supported processes. The results confirm that both factors do influence the impacts. Further, the results indicate that the implementation ...

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Systems confer numerous advantages to corporations including superior data management, streamlining of office workflows and potential costs savings. However, a content analysis of ECM system technical white papers reveals that such systems are potentially disastrous to intellectual workers. The trends of increasing management control, routinization and deskil...

This paper presents the results of a case study on the impacts of implementing Enterprise Content Management Systems (ECMSs) in an organization. It investigates how these impacts are influenced by the functionalities of an ECMS and by the nature of the ECMS-supported processes. The results confirm that both factors do influence the impacts. Further, the results indicate that the implementation ...

Nowadays, 85% of the enterprise information is stored as unstructured data. And ECM (Enterprise Content Management) provides enterprises with a platform to house these unstructured contents and deliver them in a proper way. However, content sharing, one of the key aspects of ECM, is still not efficient and effective enough in most of the ECM systems. In this paper, we propose a new enterprise c...

The emergence and growth of the Internet and vast corporate intranets as information sources has resulted in new challenges with regard to scale, heterogeneity, and distribution of content. Semantics is emerging as the critical tool for enabling more scalable and automated approaches to achieve interoperability and analysis of such content. This chapter discusses how a Semantic Enterprise Conte...