The quality of data (in particular master data) is becoming increasingly important in businesses.This is due to the increasing number of statutory and regulatory stipulations as well asthe growing importance of information systems used to support decision-making and the dataquality (e.g....

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...

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...

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...

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...

IT-Dienstleister sind zunehmend gefordert, ihr Serviceportfolio konsequentauf die IT-Unterstützung von Geschäftsprozessen der Kunden auszurichten.Dadurch können Diversifikation sowie Transparenz in den IT-Ausgaben und ihremstrategischen Wertbeitrag beim Kunden erreicht werden. Für eine...

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...

IT service providers are increasingly required to orientate their service portfolio towards the IT support of their consumer’s business processes. This enables diversification as well as transparency in costs andservices vis-à-vis the customer to be achieved. Such services however, appear too...

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...