Higher education institutions (HEIs) have examined IT outsourcing strategies, to ensure that their IT functions could sustain their service requirements while remaining effective and competitive. This research seeks to explore the major outsourcing issues within the HE context, including why...

Companies are more and more focusing on their core competencies,outsourcing business tasks to their business partners. In order to support collaboration between business partners, adequate information systems need to be built automating inter-organizational business processes. The bases for such...

Die Integration der beiden Konzernsäulen (Strategic Business Units) T‐Com und TOnlineim Jahr 2006 und die damit verbundene Notwendigkeit, die in denGeschäftsbereichen unabhängig voneinander gepflegten Daten zusammenzuführen,nutzte die Deutsche Telekom AG zur Etablierung eines präventiven...

Today’s analytical information systems demand innovative architecture concepts in order toaddress requirements like flexibility and faster time-to-market. Service-oriented architectures(SOA) as a current trend might meet these challenges. So-called BISOA describes theapproach of deploying SOA...

Der Personal Health Manager (PHM) ist ein IT-gestütztes Bewegungsprogrammum körperlich inaktive Menschen an einen aktiveren Lebensstil heranzuführen.Für den PHM wurden Software, Hardware, persönliche und computervermittelteDienstleistungen zu einer kostengünstigen und...

We argue that certain theoretical commitments that underpin much existing Inter-organisational Information Systems (IOIS) research at small scales become untenable when IOIS are studied at the scale of whole industries and over time periods greater than individual implementation projects. We...

Das externe Umweltschutz-Reporting umfasst die fallweise und/oder regelmäßige Bereitstellung von Informationen über die umweltschutzbezogene Lage eines Unternehmens an externe Stakeholder.1 Als umweltschutzbezogene Lage wird dabei zum einen die ökologische Lage bezeichnet, die durch die von...

Business and information systems engineering (BISE) has established itself as a distinct sub-discipline “between” business sciences and computer science at least in the German-speaking countries. This primarily becomes obvious by two facts. First, the BISE section is one of the largest...

In this paper, we provide a detailed overview of specific characteristics required to evaluate IS security approaches withregard to their applicability in the healthcare domain. The future of integrated treatment is enabled by e-health solutions thatcomprise health services and information...