Stable component models are an essential prerequisite for developingcustomer-individual business applications. Thereby the information for theidentification and specification of their components is gained from domainmodels. Reference models constitute a potential source for building...

The transparency created by enterprise models is avaluable support for organizational engineering andespecially enterprise transformation. However, current approaches are hardly suitable to also create transparency of the enterprise transformation process itself. The paper at hand contributes a...

One of the challenges in manufacturing companies nowadays is to enableappropriate IT support of production planning and execution. Integrated solutionsneed to cover company‐wide and even cross‐company business processes (fromorder receipt to product distribution) and at the same time live up...

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...

Although managerial issues of data warehousingand business intelligence received considerable attentionin recent years, the strategy process has notoften been investigated. This is particularly true forthe recently proposed, more holistic concept of informationlogistics. This paper discusses the...

Der Bereich der Transportlogistik stellt hohe Anforderungen an die Integration verschiedener Geschäftspartner zur Sicherstellung von Qualität und Pünktlichkeit der Dienstleistung im Sinne des Kunden: Industrieunternehmen müssen mit Spediteuren Waren und Informationen und beide Transportdaten...

Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) plays an important role in the reduction of costs and theoptimization of performance in industrial enterprises. Despite enormous investments in innovation, the healthcare sector has not experienced fundamental change yet. However, increased market dynamics...

Die Ausrichtung auf das internationale Transitgeschäft im Zuge der Marktöffnung im Schienengüterverkehr führte bei der SBB Cargo zunehmend zu der Einsicht, dass Qualität und Verfügbarkeit der Stammdaten nicht mehr den Anforderungen des Unternehmens (insbesondere für das finanzielle...

Measuring organizations’ readiness for collaboration and accordingly knowledge managementhas been a topic for years. With the emergence of Web 2.0 and its new possibilities for moreeffective collaboration, it has become increasingly relevant to determine the maturity of anorganization in...