The software systems of our company are offered under the name JobDISPO. The application areas of the different solutions are depicted in fig. 1. JobDISPO EAI solves interface problems within your company (e.g. the connection to an existing ERP-/ PPC-/CAD-/CAM-/MES-/ CAQ-/MDC-software) as well as the electronical integration of customers and suppliers (e.g. by EDI/XML). JobDISPO ERP supports th...

The market for enterprise systems (ES), continues to grow in the post millennium era as businesses become increasingly global, highly competitive, and severely challenged. Although the large enterprise space for ES implementation is quite stagnated, now all of the ES vendors are focusing on the small to medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector for implementations. This study looks at the current ES...

In 2000, the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden launched a bachelorprogram in enterprise systems. The program was a response to the increasein use of ERP packages and the need for engineers with knowledge andskills different from traditional systems development. The curriculumincludes courses in selecting, configuring, modifying and integrating ERPsoftware. Students ach...

Minimising manufacturing cost and production time parallel to raising the quality and the shipment reliability are important challenges in every production system. In case of distributed production systems the management of the above-mentioned criteria has great signi"cance and needs a complex, co-operative handling of the problems. A new, co-operative manufacturing network model is proposed fo...

This paper is very much on work in progress. Only this year did we decide to start research on HRM in small and medium sized enterprises (SME’s) in the Netherlands. Personnel management in SME’s has been little researched, yet SME’s are very important for economic activity and many owners/managers struggle with personnel issues. In this paper we will introduce an outline of our research so far....

What are the opinions of small and medium-sized enterprises with experience of Swedish patent litigation? We offer description and analysis from a 2016 interview survey of nine small and medium-sized enterprises that had been involved in Swedish patent litigation on infringement and/or invalidity. Our results show that the companies are of the opinion that the proceedings were too slow and cost...

SMEs can now afford enterprise-class services by adopting cloud computing. The four cases reported in the full article show that SMEs are getting great economic and business value from cloud services, including cost avoidance, cost savings, rapid deployment and scalability, management simplicity, and better security and resiliency compared to in-house IT provision. Cloud services have the poten...

This thesis presents the design and implementation of the All-or-Nothing package transform, presented by Ronald Rivest in 1997 [24], and its subsequently integration in an existing peer-to-peer backup system. This encryption mode provides a third alternate way of ensuring confidentiality, integrity and availability of backups. Resilia, the existing prototype where this extension is built on, co...

Start of implementation Q I 1999 Q III 1999 Period of implementation 1999-2001 1999-2001 Counterpart contribution (partner banks) 20% (of the volume of sub-loans) 50% (of the volume of sub-loans) Financing, of which Financial Cooperation (FC) funds FC loan: EUR 4.35 million Complementary measure: EUR 1.5 million SEEAF: EUR 4.6 million FC loan: EUR 4.35 million Complementary measure: EUR 1.5 mil...