To date, the principal use case for schema matching research has been as a precursor for code generation, i.e., constructing mappings between schema elements with the end goal of data transfer. In this paper, we argue that schema matching plays valuable roles independent of mapping construction, especially as schemata grow to industrial scales. Specifically, in large enterprises human decision ...

Enterprises are facing problems in managing the quality and value of their key data objects (often referred to as master data). This article presents the findings from a case study comprising six large enterprises. The study results point to the importance of the situational nature of master data as a strategic resource, which must be considered when analyzing how the quality of data affects it...

Sustainability is a very important factor in long-term entrepreneurial success. Company-wide sustainability management is mandatory and requires software support if it is to be conducted efficiently. Thus, the aim of this paper is to point out the challenges and difficulties facing large-scale enterprises in Germany while implementing and maintaining company-wide sustainability management. We c...

Systems and security products based on the RBAC model have been widely introduced to enterprises. Especially, the demands on enforcement of enterprise-level security policies and total identity management are rapidly growing. The RBAC model needs to be extended to deal with various circumstances of large enterprises, such as geographical distribution and heterogeneous environments including phy...

This paper argues that with the present state of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) adoption by the companies, the potential benefits of Supply Chain Management (SCM) and integration is about to be unleashed. This paper presents the results and the implications of a survey on ERP adoption in the 500 largest Danish enterprises. The study is based on telephone interviews with ERP managers in 88.4...

This paper presents SALE, a middleware platform for mission-critical applications built upon the CORBA architecture and its extensions for real-time (RTCORBA), fault tolerance (FT-CORBA) and security (CORBASec). The SALE platform provides different reliability, security and real-time properties, which are specified by applications as quality of service (QoS) requirements. Preliminary results ob...