An abundance of new analytics technologies emerged since the advent of the Big Data trend and enabled new Business Intelligence (BI) use cases, which were not possible with traditional technologies. While Data Warehouses were the primary choice for traditional BI architectures, the technology...

Information available online has exploded over the last 20 years. However this lead to the phenomenon known as information overload, making it harder and harder for organisations and individuals to find information that is really relevant to them. We previously have proposed a solution to this...

The European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS) was founded on October, 12th 2004. This Working Paper was written with respect to the establishment of ERCIS. Jörg Becker, Managing Director of the ERCIS, writes about fundamental issues of ERCIS. Furthermore all Founding Members...

[Introduction ...] The remainder of this paper is organized as follows: Section 2 covers background material on IS courses in general and the one at Münster in particular. Section 3 describes the design of our course in detail, while Section 4 provides a discussion of the approach both from a...

Cloud-Service-Provider werben gerne damit, dass Software-as-a-Service besonders auch für kleines oder mittleres Unternehmen (KMU) attraktiv sei. Diese könnten durch die Benutzung von Cloud-Services Kosten einsparen und ihre IT-Landschaft flexibler gestalten. Allerdings ist noch nicht...

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...