The purposes of this paper are to address the declining management information systems (MIS) enrolment problem, to suggest an enterprise resource planning (ERP)-based MIS curriculum which could reverse the enrolment decline, and to facilitate ERP integration in the business curriculum by analysing ERP software usage across industries. Enterprise resource planning systems are popular today becau...

ERP systems integrate a major part of all business processes and organizations include them in their IT service management. Besides these formal systems, there are additional systems that are rather stand-alone and not included in the IT management tasks. These so-called ‘shadow systems’ also support business processes but hinder a high enterprise integration. Shadow systems appear during their...

It is widely understood that both Information Technology (IT) and Information Systems (IS), provide great benefits in improving the visibility of supply and value chains within and across organisational boundaries. Those enterprises which can realise the benefits of extending their core business processes outwards to clients and trading partners, will be able to create unique supply chain-depen...

One of the main challenges in building enterprise applications has been to balance between general functionality and domain/scenario-specific customization. The lack of formal ways to extract, distill, and standardize the embedded domain knowledge has been a barrier to minimizing the cost of customization. Using ontology, as many would hope, will give application builders the much needed method...

Enterprise Architecture defines the overall form and function of systems across an enterprise involving the stakeholders and providing a framework, standards and guidelines for project-specific architectures. Project-specific Architecture defines the form and function of the systems in a project or program, within the context of the enterprise as a whole with broad scope and business alignments...

Nowadays, extremely competitive worldwide economy enterprise integration (EI) can be considered as a main factor in performance improvement when severe competition requires a low-profit environment for many of the commercial markets. This point causes interaction problems during both the design and implementation phase while utility enterprise (UE) appears as a business strategy for small, medi...

Currently, the companies overcome its organization barriers stimulated by the necessity of market expansion, minimize the enterprise costs, search for competitive advantages and need to absorb the fast market changes. New forms of organizations arise and are called extended and agile enterprises with new factors to be observed in the implementation of the integrated systems such as enterprise r...

Product Data Management (PDM) systems and their offspring, Collaborative Product Development and Product Lifecycle Management technologies, aim to bring engineering enterprises together, allowing seamless interoperability between different departments and throughout the extended enterprises. However, there are a number of shortcomings in the current crop of commercially available systems, such ...

A need exists for behaviour change and transparency in modern organisations where the focus needs to shift towards sustainability thinking rather than just sustainability reporting for compliance reasons. The number of organisations which are undertaking Green Initiatives and reporting on sustainability are increasing. However many of these organisations are not viewing these initiatives strate...