Purpose – This paper proposes solutions to problems related to the maintenance and update of already existing e‐learning courseware. Design/methodology/approach – A structured approach in form of a reference model for the re‐engineering of existing educational material is presented. In...

Purpose – Proposes providing an insight about enterprise resource planning (ERP) adoption, highlighting contact points and significant differences between the way small to medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) and large companies approach such a task. Design/methodology/approach – The research...

Purpose – This article proposes examining how small to medium‐sized organisations (SMEs) are responding to the challenge of harnessing enterprise resource planning (ERP) and internet technologies to enhance performance and improve competitiveness and aims to identify the barriers preventing...

Purpose – Anecdotal evidence suggests that the use of the external supply chain (SC) functionality offered by business‐to‐business electronic marketplaces (EMPs) results in improved efficiencies and reduced costs in supply chains. Anecdotal evidence also suggests, however, that most of the...

Purpose – The need for an integrated enterprise‐wide approach to management information pronounced data warehousing (DW) the “hot topic” of the early‐to‐mid‐1990s. However, it became unfashionable in the late 1990s, with the widespread implementation of enterprise resource planning...

Purpose – The application landscapes of major companies all have their own complex structure. Data have to be exchanged between or distributed to the various applications. Systemizing different data integration patterns on a conceptual level can help to avoid uncontrolled redundancy and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to frame next‐generation enterprise systems (ES). Design/methodology/approach – The model is based on a retrospective analysis of the evolution of enterprise systems, enterprise resource planning (ERP) research and emerging business requirements....

Purpose – Component‐based software development is a potential reuse paradigm for the future. While the required technologies for a component‐style system development are widely available (e.g. Sun's Enterprise Java Beans), the breakthrough of the component paradigm in business application...

Purpose – The paper aims at providing a survey of the development of empirical research in business process management (BPM). It seeks to study trends in empirical BPM research and applied methodologies by means of a developed framework in order to identify the status quo and to assess the...