Software systems are critical assets to organisations as they support important business processes and workflow. To maintain the value of these assets, the requirements of software systems must evolve whenever there are changes in business needs. A key problem to organisations is implementing requirements change to the existing software systems. Such initiatives need proper analyses so that the...

This paper proposes an approach to assessing risks related to audiovisual (AV) preservation processes through gathering and representing metadata. We define a model for process metadata, which is interoperable with both business process models and other preservation metadata formats. A risk management framework is also suggested to help key decision makers to plan and execute preservation proce...

IT security issues and outsourcing of business processes are common but largely disjoint themes in the literature; common consideration is rare even though information security risk becomes a shared risk both through IS-based processes at outsourcing partners and potentially tightly-integrated IS systems. This paper explores this lack of an integrated model combining IT risk management view wit...

On their way to success and the achievement of benefits in the e-business arena many companies worldwide are to overcome inhibitors that this area of business is facing nowadays. The best way of overcoming those is the identification and evaluation of so-called critical success factors that can act as the solution for the inhibitors encountered. The research reported in this paper addresses e-b...

IT risk management is an important challenge for businesses and software vulnerabilities are a major source of IT risks, as the 2006 CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey [GLLR06] demonstrates. According to the survey, many companies consider it important to quantify the losses attacks against their IT systems cause but are unable to do so. In service-oriented architectures, we see a promi...

Service-oriented architectures (SOA) are spreading in many organizations and aim at enhancing efficiency, agility, and productivity of business processes. Standardization and modularity enable the networking of applicationbased business functionalities especially in inter-organizational settings. This research analyzes the potentials of SOA in the domain of supply chain management (SCM), in par...

In this paper, we dealt with substantial asset analysis methodology applied to twodimensional asset classification and qualitative evaluation method according to the business process. Most of the existent risk analysis methodology and tools presented classification by asset type and physical evaluation by a quantitative method. We focused our research on qualitative evaluation with 2-dimensiona...

When introducing Business Process Management at SAP, the goal was to create measurable and sustainable impact. We demonstrate value of process management by delivering process improvement projects using standardized services and LEAN methodology based on documented processes as included in the SAP Process Landscape. To achieve a holistic picture, not only processes are analyzed, but business ro...