Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of decision making in the residential real estate industry. They can organize, manage, and analyze information in ways that were not possible with traditional information management systems. Although GIS are now used to perform specific business functions, their use can be magnified and extended through the creati...

This paper continues our work on the analysis and formalization of enterprise architecture frameworks, proposing a number of principles related to the construction and use of these frameworks. These principles are intended to guide the development of a formal foundation for frameworks. Enterprise architecture frameworks organize, manage, and interrelate the wide variety of models used to struct...

The paper provides an exploratory empirical survey of Application Service Providers (ASPs) and their clients. The research question is: what do Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) base their decision on when adopting the ASP concept? The concept, ASP, consists of software vendors, and an ASP enterprise, which act as a third part firm in a business model. For its clients it forms a strateg...

Spread out on the Internet, mail servers, and hard-drives everywhere, unstructured information in the form of Web pages, email, RSS feeds, office documents, images, video, and sound, accounts for approximately ten times the structured information stored in databases. Seeking to organize their large volume of non-structured content, companies implement Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems...

A supplier registry can play a central role in configuring a global supply chain for service-oriented enterprise integration by providing an open platform for publishing and discovering suppliers distributed over Internet. The availability of correct classification schemes used to organize suppliers based on their capability descriptions is the key to building an effective registry. This paper ...

At present, iron and steel enterprise develops towards the direction with many procedure, many process, many variety and many specification, and reaches hundreds and thousands of product series and product mix, how to plan, organize and control steel production, production schedule of its product line are key issues. According to the main characteristics of production line of iron and steel ent...

Although many companies have implemented ERP systems to track and share information across cross functional business processes, they often supplement them with legacy, custom, or best of breed applications to support supply chain execution and management. This article offers a framework for understanding all types of enterprise applications that support the supply chain. In this study, the auth...

Although many companies have implemented ERP systems to track and share information across cross functional business processes, they often supplement them with legacy, custom, or best of breed applications to support supply chain execution and management. This article offers a framework for understanding all types of enterprise applications that support the supply chain. In this study, the auth...