Throughout recent years a lot of research has been done to develop enterprise architecture (EA) approaches for large and complex enterprises. Consequently, an array of tools has been developed for these large enterprises to aid in EA management. However, traditional small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which are very important for economy, have to a great extent been neglected. Recently r...

With a major proportion of research on Electronic Commerce (EC) undertaken on large corporations, and focused primarily on developed countries, little is known about the determinants of EC in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) of developing nations. This chapter explores the extent of EC use by SMEs, and provides some empirical evidence of how internal factors of firm and owner are influ...

Integration technologies like Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and Web Services allow organisations to collaborate with their partners, increase flexibility and gain competitive advantages. Despite the benefits that the integration of Information Systems (IS) can offer to enterprises, little attention has paid on the adoption of integration software by Small to Medium Sized Enterprises ...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system outcomes in the context of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Most of the former research on ERP outcomes is based on data from large enterprises, and this study examines how the SME context affects the ERP system outcomes and the related evaluation practices. The paper reports findings from a multiple...

One of the biggest challenges for organizations implementing an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is to find the right fit between the processes embedded in the system and the existing organizational business processes. “Conventional wisdom” founded on studies from large enterprises holds that ERP systems should be implemented without customization. However, studies of ERP system implem...

An ecosystem is a self-sustaining, self-organizing, collaborative and evolving environment. Ecosystem exists in nature as a biological ecosystem of living and non living species and their physical environment. This paper carries a thorough comparative analysis and analogy between different types of ecosystems and further suggests a sustainable, stable and formidable framework of Digital Busines...

The topic on enterprise resource planning (ERP) adoption among small medium enterprises (SMEs) have attracted the interest of many IS researchers. Through the use of ERP it can help organization manage business operations systematically. The adoption of ERP is known to be of interest among large organizations. Due to its great potential values, the adoption of ERP solution is progressively incr...

The enterprises today including small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are dependent on software to accomplish their objectives and maintain survivability and sustainability in their businesses. Although many studies in software quality have been carried out previously, they still lack for the correlation between software quality and the impact to SMEs productivity. The objectives of this study ar...

Small Medium Enterprise (SME) is facing the pressure from its competitors; mainly large companies as they could provide products of greater value with lower cost as compared to SMEs. This paper is about implementing the newly integrated quality concept; Lean Six Sigma (LSS) in a SME company and the implementation of the LSS framework is shown in the case study. The LSS framework proposed in thi...