ATIS (Advanced Travel Information Systems) are complex systems, dealing with a large amount of heterogeneous data from various sources. The exchange and integration of such data is therefore demanding, particularly for small mobility service providers with few IT (Information Technology) resources. To face this problem, this work illustrates an IT infrastructure to support information and servi...

This paper explores how organizational and technological factors explain the adoption of e-business functions in 4570 European companies and the migration from EDI-based to XML-based e-business frameworks in 329 European companies. According to a linear regression model, a company with a wider scope, having more enterprise information systems or exchanging standardized data has more e-business ...

The value of geographical information systems and remote sensing as tools for land and resource management is now widely recognised and their application well documented. Better integration of the technologies offers the potential, however, for developing more powerful and useful tools for land and resource management. This paper focuses on the integration of image data with geographical inform...

The efforts undertaken by healthcare organisations to modernise their services have resulted in the development of disparate Healthcare Information Systems (HIS). Systems heterogeneity has an impact on the quality of the services provided to patients. Thus, the integration of HIS will result in improvement of the quality of care provided to patients. Although healthcare organisations have turne...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems long have been known as systems that bring integration to numerous business activities within complex organizations. However, in today’s contemporary organizations, ERP systems are becoming a standard information system, irrespective of size and nature of the business. This case focuses on the implementation of an ERP system in higher education. The ca...

undoubtedly, information technology (it) has undergone extensive developments in various social and economic spheres; its effect on human society is in such a way that the world today is referred as information society. besides, information technology, attributed as the main agent of global change, is to achieve meta- organization purposes. it also pertains to appropriate information formulated...

The complex relationship between organizations, information technology (IT) and information systems (IS) indicates that changes to the organization are likely to have an effect on the usefulness of existing IS and the success of IS projects. Information needs of new and existing users have to be assessed and organizational IS evaluated for their capability to satisfy these needs. This paper des...

Health and social care systems are implementing fundamental changes to organizational structures and work practices in an effort to achieve integrated care. While some integration initiatives have produced positive outcomes, many have not. We reframe the concept of integration as a learning process fueled by knowledge exchange across diverse professional and organizational communities. We thus ...

The objective of this study is to establish a base for understanding inflexibility, with different kinds of integration problems being examined and explained. Studies of process integration have focused mostly on the design and management of efficient operation with information technology but very little on the difficulty in making changes with tightly linked processes. In order to eliminate ri...

In this paper, using the governance, resources and processes model for an organization, we examine the organizational challenges for innovation in information systems in each of the three areas of this model. Information systems are a great tool to support innovation to improve the processes and activities in an organization to achieve a competitive edge. We review the role of leadership (gover...