Organizations exchange data electronically to perform business transactions using Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). In order to gain insights on such transactions, approaches for inter-organizational business process mining based on the observation of exchanged EDI messages have been recently proposed. In recent approaches, however, only meta-information about the exchanged messages, such as m...

The Internet appears to be a cheap, efficient, and ubiquitous channel for transmitting Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) transactions. This paper contrasts two strategies for implementing Internet-EDI systems. McKesson, Corp. treated its Internet-EDI system as a traditional information systems development project while Bank of America built its Internet-EDI system with a prototyping approach. T...

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) systems are used in many domains to support inter-organisational information exchange. These systems require complex message translation, where data must be transformed from one EDI message format into another. We describe a visual language and support environment which greatly simplify the task of the systems integrator by using a domain-specific visual langua...

The evaluation and appraisal of investments in Information Technology is one of the earliest problems of IS/IT management and continues to be one of the most puzzling ones. This paper briefly reviews the inherent difficulties of evaluating IT investments and identifies measurement as one of the most important. We focus on the quantitative measurement of the expected benefits of Information Syst...

Many companies have embarked on initiatives that enable more demand information sharing between retailers and their upstream suppliers. While the literature on such initiatives in the business press is proliferating, it is not clear how one can quantify the benefits of these initiatives and how one can identify the drivers of the magnitudes of these benefits. Using analytical models, this paper...

Electronic Invoicing has attracted a lot of attention by being a cornerstone of the Digital Agenda for Europe, Europe’s 2020 Strategy. This agenda mandates a ‘‘think small first’’ principle in order to enable e-invoicing for companies of any size. The electronic invoice should be exchanged between the ERP systems of business partners. Traditional approaches based on electronic data interchange ...

The growing importance of Electronic Data Interchange for the rapid transmission of intraand inter-organisational communications is becoming widely recognised. EDI itself is little more than a faster mail service: it is the opportunity to integrate EDI with internal application systems and organisational functions which separates it from other forms of electronic telecommunications and makes ED...

This work presents a prototype system that enables electronic integration of civil status records of the International Commission on Civil Status (ICCS) member states; the pursued issues are involving civil status matters for citizens of member states through their respective Registrars’ Offices organization. Phase 1 of the prototype system is presented together with the technical feasibility s...

The slow rate of acceptance of telecommunications applications Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) in particular can be attributed, at least in part, to a lack of understanding of the strategic benefits which can accrue from their effective utilisation. This paper describes the design of an international laboratory called TREAT (Teaching Realistic EDI And Telecommunications) which is being develo...

An information system does not exist in a vacuüm. It exists within an organizational and societal context which influences its design, use, management and ultimate acceptance. This paper reports on research into the influence of societal context on the acceptance and use of information systems. It is an examination of the influence of societal factors on the diffusion of electronic data interch...