Showing papers on "Enterprise software published in 2015"

Decision making in enterprise risk management: A review and introduction to special issue

Abstract: Risk-based decision making has been always important in everyday business life. Enterprise risk management (ERM) is the state-of-the-art approach to manage risks facing an organization from system perspective. This paper provides a review of popular literature in ERM using management science approaches, and an introduction of the special issue.

Social enterprise in the united states

Abstract: The social enterprise movement did not start in a vacuum, but is the latest iteration of business trying to benefit society. In a historical context, it follows in the footsteps of corporate philanthropy and corporate social responsibility. But unlike those movements, social enterprise goes farther by attempting to blend and give equal weight to both philanthropy and profit. This dual mission is contrary to the traditional corporate notion of shareholder wealth maximization, and is an obstacle to the future viability and success of social enterprise. As a result, new corporate entity forms have been developed to help social entrepreneurs achieve their dual purpose goals of philanthropy and profit. The purpose of this article is track the development of social enterprise, to understand why the preexisting legal entity forms are outdated, and to explore the different entity options that social enterprises have to choose from. In doing this, the goal is to provide the reader with a better contextual understanding of the social enterprise movement, its limitations, and how the legal community and government legislatures are trying to help out.

Enterprise Resource Planning Systems

Abstract: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have come of age. The term ERP was originally coined and adopted by the manufacturing industry. Its origin may be traced back from earlier acronyms of MRP (Materials Requirements Planning) and MRP II (Manufacturing Resource Planning). According to Gartner, a global IT analyst firm, ERP may be defined as a set of application software that brings financial, distribution, manufacturing, and other business functions into balance. It extends horizontally across the company’s business functions and vertically throughout the company’s supply chain. During early 1990s, ERP systems emerged as single dominant enabler of business process re-engineering initiatives. However, their adoption peaked in late 1990s mainly due to Y2K problems and then survived a near death situation in 2000. Last couple of years has witnessed a strong resurgence of ERP systems due to their robustness and an almost must-have and preferred business process enabler across manufacturing and service industries.

Pareto-Optimal Adversarial Defense of Enterprise Systems

Abstract: The National Vulnerability Database (NVD) maintained by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology provides valuable information about vulnerabilities in popular software, as well as any patches available to address these vulnerabilities. Most enterprise security managers today simply patch the most dangerous vulnerabilities—an adversary can thus easily compromise an enterprise by using less important vulnerabilities to penetrate an enterprise. In this article, we capture the vulnerabilities in an enterprise as a Vulnerability Dependency Graph (VDG) and show that attacks graphs can be expressed in them. We first ask the question: What set of vulnerabilities should an attacker exploit in order to maximize his expected impactq We show that this problem can be solved as an integer linear program. The defender would obviously like to minimize the impact of the worst-case attack mounted by the attacker—but the defender also has an obligation to ensure a high productivity within his enterprise. We propose an algorithm that finds a Pareto-optimal solution for the defender that allows him to simultaneously maximize productivity and minimize the cost of patching products on the enterprise network. We have implemented this framework and show that runtimes of our computations are all within acceptable time bounds even for large VDGs containing 30K edges and that the balance between productivity and impact of attacks is also acceptable.

Management Styles and Organisational Effectiveness in Vietnam: A Comparison in Terms of Management Practices between State-owned and Foreign Enterprises

Abstract: Human capital initiatives play a vital role in resolving the most pressing business challenges. The effective management of human poses new challenges in the organization for leadership and managerial capabilities. The current study aims to analyze the factors that are closely associated with employee satisfaction in both Vietnamese state-owned enterprise and foreign-owned enterprise in order to understand the difference of management practices. The response was taken from a sample of 250 respondents in either two types of business and the data are carried out by using multiple statistical analyses, including exploratory factor analysis, reliability test, mean point value, and multiple linear regressions. The results indicate that for the state-owned enterprise, recruitment process is the most important factor that helps to improve the satisfaction of employee. Besides, for the foreign-owned enterprise, as the results of the current study, performance appraisal process is the main point to solve employee‘s problems. The findings also provide useful implications for managers in terms of improving human capital quality, and stabilizing the labor resources and reducing the turnover rate for both state-owned enterprise and foreign-owned enterprises.

ExplorViz: Visual Runtime Behavior Analysis of Enterprise Application Landscapes

Abstract: Enterprise application landscapes are complex and hard to manage systems. Enterprise models abstract from this complexity and seek to capture relevant information to cope with business requirements, i.e., increase flexibility while reducing costs of IT. Recent automated approaches focus on utilizing existing information sources. We identified two issues in current approaches. First, in line with these approaches we observe that enterprise models often get outdated and, thus, are an unreliable basis for decision making. Second, these approaches lack detail and after larger transformations commonly the entire application landscape exhibits an altered load profile. In this paper, we present how ExplorViz can be utilized to ensure consistency between an enterprise model and the actual information systems. We exemplify our approach via modeling the application landscape of the Kiel Data Management Infrastructure at the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR). In our scenario, we depict an application landscape and exemplary drill-down to our EPrints productive installation to the source-code level. We explain the importance of underlying concepts and features, which help to optimize the responsiveness of an entire application landscape based on runtime information.

Methods and system for integrating social media analysis into an enterprise project management system

Abstract: Disclosed is an approach for analyzing social media conversations related to one or more projects of an enterprise project management system. Integration is provided between a PPM application and an enterprise social networking application. Conversations generated around one or more social objects pertaining to one or more projects of the enterprise project management system are analyzed to estimate a social health of the project on the enterprise social network. The estimated social health is integrated back into the PPM application.

Factors influencing the adoption of Enterprise Social Software in Australia

Abstract: Purpose: The aim of this research is to determine the significant factors leading to the adoption of Enterprise Social Software in Australian organisations The research question is: What are the significant adoption factors of Enterprise Social Software in Australia? Design/methodology/approach: Technology Acceptance Model is adapted for this research to determine the significant adoption factors of Enterprise Social Software An online questionnaire was distributed among Australian knowledge workers, garnered more than 300 responses, and the results were analysed through Structural Equation Modelling Findings: The structural model suggests that significant factors influencing the adoption of Enterprise Social Software are External Variables including Individual Factors, Organisational Factors, Task Complexity, Organisational Culture, and Knowledge Strategy, and perceptions of the system including Perceived Usefulness and Perceived Ease of Use Practical implications: Organisations which desire increased adoption of Enterprise Social Software are recommended to apply conducive strategies around intrinsic variables (Individual Factors, Organisational Culture), as well as extrinsic variables (Task Complexity, Knowledge Strategy), which in turn will positively influence perceptions of usefulness and ease of use, and subsequently positively influence the decision to adopt Enterprise Social Software Originality/value: In summary, the research determined significant factors to the adoption of Enterprise Social Software in Australia The discussion emphasised the importance of External Variables as indirect, but highly influential, factors to the adoption of this technology, which are leveraged through Perceived Usefulness and Perceived Ease of Use By improving our understanding of these factors, we are in position to improve the adoption rates of Enterprise Social Software as a representation of the next generation Knowledge Management Systems

Reactive Messaging Patterns With the Actor Model: Applications and Integration in Scala and Akka

Abstract: USE THE ACTOR MODEL TO BUILD SIMPLER SYSTEMS WITH BETTER PERFORMANCE AND SCALABILITY Enterprise software development has been much more difficult and failure-prone than it needs to be. Now, veteran software engineer and author Vaughn Vernon offers an easier and more rewarding method to succeeding with Actor model. Reactive Messaging Patterns with the Actor Model shows how the reactive enterprise approach, Actor model, Scala, and Akka can help you overcome previous limits of performance and scalability, and skillfully address even the most challenging non-functional requirements. Reflecting his own cutting-edge work, Vernon shows architects and developers how to translate the longtime promises of Actor model into practical reality. First, he introduces the tenets of reactive software, and shows how the message-driven Actor model addresses all of themmaking it possible to build systems that are more responsive, resilient, and elastic. Next, he presents a practical Scala bootstrap tutorial, a thorough introduction to Akka and Akka Cluster, and a full chapter on maximizing performance and scalability with Scala and Akka. Building on this foundation, youll learn to apply enterprise application and integration patterns to establish message channels and endpoints; efficiently construct, route, and transform messages; and build robust systems that are simpler and far more successful. Coverage Includes How reactive architecture replaces complexity with simplicity throughout the core, middle, and edges The characteristics of actors and actor systems, and how Akka makes them more powerful Building systems that perform at scale on one or many computing nodes Establishing channel mechanisms, and choosing appropriate channels for each application and integration challenge Constructing messages to clearly convey a senders intent in communicating with a receiver Implementing a Process Manager for your Domain-Driven Designs Decoupling a messages source and destination, and integrating appropriate business logic into its router Understanding the transformations a message may experience in applications and integrations Implementing persistent actors using Event Sourcing and reactive views using CQRS Find unique online training on Domain-Driven Design, Scala, Akka, and other software craftsmanship topics using the for{comprehension} website at forcomprehension.com.

The System of the Methodological Principles of Management of Enterprise Development

Abstract: Currently, economic growth economic entities more and more dependent on enterprise adaptation to the changing needs of the market environment to the products manufactured by the company. In these circumstances, it is important to understand and determine what should be the methodology of construction of the control system based on an innovative approach. During the formation of the mechanism of management of the company needs to follow a number of methodological principles of management of development of the enterprise. The proposed conceptual methodological principles of formation of the system of management of development of the enterprise with the purpose of increase of efficiency of functioning and quality of production. System conceptual methodological principles of formation of the system of effective management of enterprise development, according to the authors, should be based on the following research approaches: integration, task, system, complex, situational, economic, synergistic. The synergetic approach to managing effective enterprise development based on the principles of self-organization and self-development systems, openness of the enterprise for innovation and transformation. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n3s4p25

Crowd Build: A Methodology for Enterprise Software Development Using Crowdsourcing

Abstract: We present and evaluate a software development methodology that addresses key challenges for the application of Crowd sourcing to an enterprise application development. Our methodology presents a mechanism to systematically break the overall business application into small tasks such that the tasks can be completed independently and in parallel by the crowd. Our methodology supports automated testing and automatic integration. We evaluate our methodology by developing a web application through Crowd sourcing. The methodology was tested through two Crowd sourcing models: one through contests and the other through hiring freelancers. We present various metrics of the Crowd sourcing experiment and compare against the estimate for the traditional software development methodology.

Integrating Agile Software Development and Enterprise Architecture Management

Abstract: Practitioners consider the focus of Agile Software Development and Enterprise Architecture Management as divergent. Following this view, two questions arise and are answered by this paper: whether and how agile methods such as Scrum can be used to create architecture deliverables and how enterprise architects can collaborate with agile software development teams. Based on expert interviews in a major German consultancy, a railway company, and an automotive OEM an integration of the TOGAF ADM and Scrum has been developed and evaluated following the Design Science research process. Both questions are answered by two different procedure models, one to be used on TOGAF's Enterprise Strategic and Segment Architecture Level and another for the Capability Architecture Level. The first enables the creation of the EA in form of Scrum projects. The second focuses on the necessary collaboration of empowered implementation teams with a central EA function.

An IT model of a Knowledge Map which supports management in small and medium-sized companies using selected Polish construction enterprises as an example

Abstract: Knowledge is one of the most important resources of an enterprise. Skillful knowledge management can bring significant benefits including labour productivity growth, an increase in quality of provided services and also a strengthening of the competitive position of an enterprise. This paper presents an iT model of a knowledge Map which supports knowledge management in a construction enterprise. The model was developed on the basis of the results of surveys and analyses carried out in small and medium sized construction enterprises in Poland. The process approach in management was included in the proposed model and it involves analysis of an enterprise activity as a set of processes. The model contains processes occurring at enterprise level and also in the widely considered investment process in the construction industry. This assumption made the proposed knowledge Map universal and able to be applied in construc- tion enterprises operating in both the design and executive field.

Model-Driven Online Capacity Management for Component-Based Software Systems.

Abstract: Capacity management is a core activity when designing and operating distributed software systems. It comprises the provisioning of data center resources and the deployment of software components to these resources. The goal is to continuously provide adequate capacity, i.e., service level agreements should be satisfied while keeping investment and operating costs reasonably low. Traditional capacity management strategies are rather static and pessimistic: resources are provisioned for anticipated peak workload levels. Particularly, enterprise application systems are exposed to highly varying workloads, leading to unnecessarily high total cost of ownership due to poor resource usage efficiency caused by the aforementioned static capacity management approach. During the past years, technologies emerged that enable dynamic data center infrastructures—e. g., leveraged by cloud computing products. These technologies build the foundation for elastic online capacity management, i.e., adapting the provided capacity to workload demands based on a short-term horizon. Because manual online capacity management is not an option, automatic control approaches have been proposed. However, most of these approaches focus on coarse-grained adaptation actions and adaptation decisions are based on aggregated system-level measures. Architectural information about the controlled software system is rarely considered. This thesis introduces a model-driven online capacity management approach for distributed component-based software systems, called SLAstic. The core contributions of this approach are a) modeling languages to capture relevant architectural information about a controlled software system, b) an architecture-based online capacity management framework based on the common MAPE-K control loop architecture, c) model-driven techniques supporting the automation of the approach, d) architectural runtime reconfiguration operations for controlling a system’s capacity, e) as well as an integration of the Palladio Component Model. A qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the approach is performed by case studies, lab experiments, and simulation.

A framework for modelling enterprise competencies: from theory to practice in enterprise architecture

Abstract: Enterprise competency refers to knowledge that describes the skills and abilities possessed by a particular enterprise. This paper proposes a new framework for intra-enterprise competency modelling. First, formal definitions of enterprise competency and related aspects i.e. resource, activity, and knowledge are presented. Second, conceptual subcategories i.e. capability, cross-functional co-ordination, and cross-functional integration are discussed for the purposes of capability and competency modelling. The framework is illustrated by developing a competency knowledge base for a bicycle plant with two sectors. The competency knowledge base provides information important to decision-making, and can act as an indicator for an enterprise’s willingness to engage in robust collaboration.

Enterprise Capability Modeling: Concepts, Method, and Application

Abstract: Strategic alignment among digital services and organizational objectives is crucial for IT, if the enterprise is to use it for competitive advantage. The motivation for the work presented in this paper is based on the need for the design of services that meet the challenges of alignment, agility and sustainability in relation to dynamically changing enterprise requirements. To this end, the paper presents an approach to enterprise modeling that historically has its roots in strategic management and more recently has been considered within the broader spectrum of enterprise architecture, business process management and service-oriented development. We refer to this approach as a capability-centric modeling approach. The paper establishes a framework within which capability modeling would be used in collaboration with other modeling viewpoints and focuses on the specific concepts and techniques that relate to enterprise capability. These concepts and techniques are elaborated upon using a scenario from a leading digital services enterprise.

Pragmatic adaptation of the ISO 31000:2009 enterprise risk management framework in a high-tech organization using Six Sigma

Abstract: Purpose – This case study aims to present a viable solution to how organizations can adapt and customize the ISO 31000:2009 enterprise risk management framework to suits its needs and requirements. Design/methodology/approach – Approach used for this case study is via adopting Six Sigma DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control phases) methodology. Findings – Key finding is the importance of stakeholders’ feedbacks which are taken into consideration during the designing of the new customized enterprise risk management framework, integrated with all supporting processes, tools and resources. Originality/value – The ISO 31000:2009 enterprise risk management framework dictates that it is not a one-size-fits-all. Rather, organizations who wish to adapt this framework need to customize accordingly, but there is no indication on how organizations can do it. This case study presents a viable solution to this challenge.

JTangCSB: A Cloud Service Bus for Cloud and Enterprise Application Integration

Abstract: Cloud and enterprise application integration (CEAI) is a new challenge as more enterprise applications migrate successfully to cloud environments. However, achieving CEAI properties such as multitenancy, cloud-level scalability, and environmental heterogeneity is nontrivial for enterprise applications originally built under the assumption of centralized management. A concrete implementation of the cloud service bus approach, called JTangCSB, addresses the challenge of handling these properties and demonstrates its feasibility in practice.

How Does ERPsim Influence Students' Perceived Learning Outcomes in an Information Systems Course? An Empirical Study.

Abstract: 1. INTRODUCTION Today, business processes and decision making depend heavily on information systems such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). ERP are complex information systems, which integrate business processes and decision-making at the organizational level. Understanding business processes and being able to use enterprise software are skills in great demand by industry and many business schools require the teaching of hands-on skills in ERP. However, it is a challenge for instructors to teach and students to learn business processes and ERP software in the classroom since business students often lack knowledge of real-world business processes and have limited IT skills available to operate an ERP software application (Leger, 2006; Seethamraju, 2011). To overcome this difficulty, many business schools have introduced ERP simulation software to their curriculum. Using simulation games in business education is an innovative pedagogical approach. By playing software games, students can understand better business processes and ERP from learning by doing (Leger, 2006). ERPsim (ERP Simulation Game) is an ERP teaching-learning software tool developed by HEC Montreal, Canada. ERPsim simulates a real-world marketplace in which virtual companies can operate business processes using a commercial version of SAP software (Leger, 2006). In the classroom, student teams operate a virtual wholesale beverage distribution company using a SAP client. Each team uses standard ERP reports and transactions to manage all business processes involved in the marketing, inventory, sales, and forecasting of various bottled water products. The teams analyze these transactions and review financial reports during the simulation and compete against each other in the same marketplace with the goal of maximizing profit. The simulated marketplace provides students with opportunities to practice their business strategies and to develop hands-on skills to manage business processes using SAP clients. "Using the SAP simulation, students also develop technical skills through direct interaction with an actual SAP client." (Cronan and Douglas, 2012, p. 4). Worldwide, over 130 universities have adopted ERPsim (https://erpsim.hec.ca/en/about/participating_universities) in their IS or other business courses. Pedagogical evidences suggest that ERPsim improves students' learning performance in IS courses (Leger, 2006; Seethamraju, 2011; Cronan and Douglas, 2012). However, an extensive literature review indicates that little is known about causal relationships among cognitive-psychological factors, learning behavior and learning outcomes. There is also a lack of theory-supported empirical studies on the effectiveness of ERPsim in students' learning behavior and performance. In particular, no empirical study has investigated how cognitive-psychological antecedents influence students' learning behavior and outcomes when they used ERPsim as a learning tool. It is not known what these factors are and how they improve students' learning performance when using ERPsim. This study aims to close the research gap with an empirical examination of the effects of some psychological factors on students' learning behavior and outcomes when they participate in ERPsim games in the classroom. Specifically, a theoretical model is proposed to investigate the effects of enjoyment and cognitive appraisal on the behavioral intention to use the learning tool and the effectiveness of the learning tool. The effects of enjoyment and cognitive appraisal on behavior are well acknowledged in both IS and pedagogy literature (e.g., Davis, Bagozzi, and Warshaw, 1992; Venkatesh, 2000; Van der Heijden, 2004; Wakefield and Whitten, 2006; Beaudry and Pinsonneault, 2005; Fadel and Brown, 2010). The contribution of this study is twofold. First, the researchers extend upon prior research of ERPsim by focusing on causal relations among antecedent variables and learning behavior and outcomes. …