Over the last decade, system integration has grown in popularity as it allows organisations to streamline business processes. Traditionally, system integration has been conducted through point-to-point solutions – as a new integration scenario requirement arises, a custom solution is built...

An asset registry arguably forms the core system that needs to be in place before other systems can operate or interoperate. Most systems have rudimentary asset registry functionality that store assets, relationships, or characteristics, and this leads to different asset management systems...

[Abstract]: Agile methodologies such as Extreme Programming (XP) have emerged as a major thrust in the computer software development arena. Almost contemporaneously, an organisational theory highly aligned with the values of agile methodologies has mutated from the ‘restructuring’ paradigm....

Engineering asset management organisations (EAMOs) are increasingly motivated to implement business intelligence (BI) systems in response to dispersed information environments and compliance requirements. However, the implementation of a business intelligence (BI) system is a complex undertaking...

The implementation of a business intelligence (BI) system is a complex undertaking requiring considerable resources. Yet there is a limited authoritative set of critical success factors (CSFs) for management reference because the BI market has been driven mainly by the IT industry and vendors....

This paper places a special focus on data quality (DQ) issues associated with asset management (AM) systems and on how software can assist in dealing with those various DQ issues. It does not intend to merely be a review of DQ software, but rather aims to identify limitations of such software...

Contemporary enterprises have in recent times experienced significant changes, most of which have been technologically driven. The result of these gales of change has been an overabundance of information [17]. Yet such information abundance has not necessarily resulted in a more informed...

An increasing number of contemporary organizations are coming to realize the importance of Information Quality (IQ) to effective decision making. However, assessing and enhancing the quality of information can still be a daunting task. Consequently, we propose a TDQM based Capability Maturity...

Contemporary organisation are producing and storing more information then ever before in history. The resulting information overload, combined with the lack of quality assurance for information management, has led to a questionable state of information quality in many organisations. Furthermore,...

Contemporary organizations are producing and storing more information then ever before in history. The resulting information overload, combined with the lack of quality assurance for information management, has led to a questionable state of information quality in many organizations....