A business rule specifies or restraints one aspect of business that is intended to verify business structure or determine the behavior of our business. Business rules often focus on access control issues. There author has proposed a re-engineering method that is implemented to extract a business rule from legacy source code. With time, generally the valuable documents of system are lost and in ...

Business transformation initiatives are required by any organization to jump from its normal mode of operation to the one that is suitable for the change in the environment such as competitive pressures, regulatory requirements, changes in labor market, etc., or internal such as changes in strategy/vision, changes in the capability, change in the management, etc. Recent advances in information ...

Business process refactoring techniques have been often provided for business process manually modeled. Unfortunately, no many refactoring techniques lie in reversing business process models obtained from existing information systems, which need, even more, to be refactored. Hence, there is no strong empirical evidence on how the understandability of business process models is affected by this ...

In this study we explore the concept of business model and its essential elements in software business. There are no rigorous previous definitions or descriptions of the term business model in the context of software businesses in existing academic literature. Hence, a conceptual definition was found essential. Furthermore, there is a clear managerial need for constructs that help understanding...

Keyword search enjoys great popularity due to succinctness and easy operability for exploring RDF data. SPARQL has been recommended as the standard query language that can retrieve any answers users need from available RDF data. Thus, keyword search based on keywords-to-SPARQL attracts more and more attention. However, existing solutions have main limitations that the summary index used for tra...

Digital transformation describes the changes that the increased digitization within society causes or influences in all aspects of human life. The digital business transformation can be understood as the impact of the increased digitization on the business domain. Companies are challenged to transform, i.e., to create new business models that consider and leverage the increased digitization. As...

Business expectations regarding the introduction of business information systems were investigated according to company size categories. The results clearly showed that according to the majority of the respondents the information supply for decision-makers improved. In contrast, business information systems as a means of improving competitiveness were only regarded by corporations, this aspect ...

In the way of growing and developing firms especially high-tech firms, on many occasions manager of firm is mainly involved in solving problems of his business and decision making about executive activities of the firm, while besides executive measures, attention to planning of firm's success and growth way and application of long experience and sagacity in designing business model are vital an...

This paper discusses the theory behind the existence of an idealistic model for business network governance and uses a clarifying case-study, containing governance structures and processes within a business network framework. The case study from a German pharmaceutical industry company complements existing literature by providing a comprehensive explanation of the relations between supply chain...

In business processes, companies have found an ally to improve their competitiveness. The performance of these companies depends on their information systems, which may have evolved separately from the business processes. In order to align the legacy systems and the business processes, it is necessary to recover the current business processes hidden in legacy systems. Reverse engineering toward...