Eighty-five years ago, Harvard created a business school to train the leaders of industry and commerce. Within a decade, Harvard had institutionalized case study as its primary teaching method in the business school. Today, the case method is a fixture at most business schools. An average MBA student prepares (or is supposed to prepare) up to 600 cases during his or her two years in graduate sc...

The configuration of comprehensive enterprise systems to meet the specific requirements of an organisation up to today is consuming significant resources. The results of failing or delayed enterprise system implementation projects are severe and may even threaten the organisation’s existence. One of the main drivers for implementing comprehensive enterprise systems is to streamline business pro...

Abstrakt: The development of information technology has changed familiar patterns of business behavior. The adoption of appropriate solutions, driven by current IT, became necessary for almost all market participants who want to survive and thrive in today's business environment. When we talk about the Enterprise Resource Planning systems we imply that it provides plenty of opportunities for co...

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has gained considerable interest in recent years, mostly due to the advent of standards based Web services that simplify interoperability, loose coupling and reuse. One of the basic business motivations for implementing SOA today is achieving business agility, as SOA can help businesses respond more quickly and cost effectively to the dynamic and continues ch...

In future smart grid scenarios, a greater involvement and active participation of customers are desirable in order to integrate renewable energy. Based on today’s electricity tariff schemes an evolutionary process could lead to real-time pricing and a significantly higher frequency of supplier changes. If this becomes reality, the business-to-business processes and the corresponding data exchan...

Synopsis Most organizations today are required not only to establish effective business processes but they are required to accommodate for changing business conditions at an increasing rate. Many business processes extend beyond the boundary of the enterprise into the supply chain and the information infrastructure therefore is critical. Today nearly every business relies on their Enterprise Sy...

To succeed in the global marketplace, companies must reposition themselves to tap the sources of sustainable growth. After failing to connect information technology investments with business performance, successful senior managers today know that ‘effective use of information’ does not equal merely a new IT solution. Instead, business performance can only be improved with an excellence at using...

The fundamental driving force behind any business, no matter of its size is the generation of tasks. The logical grouping of these tasks into business processes has cause the phenomenal development of software packages to meet the need of natural internal business evolution, which is evident by the mass number of business applications available on the market today. However this paper will try t...

Mobile business solutions are one of the most attractive products of mobile information services today. Furthermore, most current mobile businesses and mobile solution providers are contributing to the process of convergence. The existing mobile 2.5G (e.g. GPRS) networks combined with Internet-based services limit many current ideas and solutions. However, 2.5G mobile technologies can be a very...

A software application is related to the processes it supports. Today, UML diagrams esp. use case diagrams and activity diagrams are often used to model the relevant aspects of the processes within the analysis phase. In the design phase the models are manually mapped to the business layer of the software application. In the context of Service-oriented Architectures (SOA) Programming in the Lar...