Throughout recent years a lot of research has been done to develop enterprise architecture (EA) approaches for large and complex enterprises. Consequently, an array of tools has been developed for these large enterprises to aid in EA management. However, traditional small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which are very important for economy, have to a great extent been neglected. Recently r...

For large enterprises, IT governance is a major lever to influence the way how IT enables business. The authors hypothesize that a part of IT governance, namely business-IT responsibility sharing and structural IT organization, has a strong influence on IT architecture complexity of large enterprises. IT complexity is challenging CIOs of large enterprises all over the world day-by-day. Yet, IT ...

Big data management is no longer an issue for large enterprises only; it has also become a challenge for small and middle-sized enterprises, too. Today, enterprises have to handle business data and processes of increasing complexity that are almost entirely electronic in nature, regardless of enterprises’ size. Enterprises’ information systems need functions based on specific technologies to be...

BACKGROUND Goal-oriented communication of risk of hazards is necessary in order to reduce risk of workers' exposure to chemicals. Adequate training of workers and enterprise priority setting are essential elements. Cleaning enterprises have many challenges and the existing paradigms influence the risk levels of these enterprises. METHODS Information on organization and enterprises' prioritiza...

This paper seeks to shed light on certain major aspects of public policy and the performance of business enterprises in India. First, it highlights the effectiveness of the public policies pursued and their asymmetric effects on corporate governance and performance of multinational and local enterprises in India. Second, it suggests that the so called ‘threat’ of large scale disruption of local...

Data integration in large enterprises is a crucial but at the same time costly, long lasting and challenging problem. While business-critical information is often already gathered in integrated information systems, such as ERP, CRM and SCM systems, the integration of these systems itself as well as the integration with the abundance of other information sources is still a major challenge. In th...

Small enterprises are beginning to utilize Geographic Information Systems (GISs) and spatial technologies. Since these technologies have only recently become widely available for small enterprises, there are challenges including costs, training, skilled workforce, data gathering and management, and competitive strategy. Two conceptual theories of GIS strategy are discussed with respect to small...

This chapter argues that with the present state of enterprise resource planning (ERP) adoption by the companies, the potential benefits of supply chain management (SCM) and integration is about to be unleashed. This chapter presents the results and the implications of a survey on ERP adoption in the 500 largest Danish enterprises. The study is based on telephone interviews with ERP managers in ...

Worms are a serious threat to Internet security. The past research on worm has been focused on mathematical modeling, numerical analysis, and simulation in addition to proposed defense strategies. We believe a fine-grained, packet-level emulation of worm propagation in enterprise networks is highly beneficial for the deep understanding of worm dynamics and a prerequisite for worm containment an...

While most research regarding adoption of cloud computing by companies covers countries with highly developed IT infrastructure, cloud computing is actually used also in less IT-mature countries. Still, companies address cloud computing differently in countries with different levels of IT-maturity. This research explores cloud computing adoption factors in less IT-mature countries having Turkey...