Big data management is no longer an issue for large enterprises only; it has also become a challenge for small and middle-sized enterprises, too. Today, enterprises have to handle business data and processes of increasing complexity that are almost entirely electronic in nature, regardless of enterprises’ size. Enterprises’ information systems need functions based on specific technologies to be...

The paper argues that the study of ICT usage among small and medium sized enterprises benefits from a combination of methods, including diffusion studies, institutional analyses, and studies of post-adoption behaviour.

High availability of information in medium and large-sized enterprises may naturally benefit from a wide-area replication of data. We discuss recent developments of replication architectures that boost the availability of business data in distributed information systems.

Small and medium sized enterprises have limited power in the supply chain and limited resources to invest in advanced planning systems. This makes it difficult to cope with the latest challenges such as mass customisation which puts higher demands on the companies’ ability to attune its production planning to customers' wishes and their suppliers. The paper presents possible types of supply cha...

Holonic modeling analysis which is the application of system thinking in design, manage, and improvement, is used in a novel context for business process modeling. An approach and techniques of holon and holarchies is presented specifically for small and medium sized enterprise process modeling development. The fitness of the approach is compared with well known reductionist or task breakdown a...

Teleworking is the key to a more flexible design of working time and places of work on the way to the modern information society with a knowledge oriented growth of economy. The rapid development of electronic networking systems such as Internet and the penetration of ISDN-based applications have demonstrated the enormous potential of technical facilities for new employment models. This paper d...

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...