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Track Chairs:

Carsten Brockmann, University of Potsdam,  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Randy V. Bradley, The University of Tennessee,  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Renee Pratt, Washington & Lee University,  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Track Description:

The introduction, use and maintenance of enterprise systems (ES) require a significant investment of organizational energy and resources. As such, ES represent the largest IS investment an organization is likely to make. Many organizations are now upgrading, replacing, or extending their original ES. Early versions of ES provided back office functionality that integrated a range of internal business processes, whereas modern ES have evolved to include support for a variety of front office and inter-organizational activities and processes, such as customer relationship management (CRM) and supply chain management (SCM). The design of such large integrated systems represents a major technical challenge, requiring new ways of thinking about business processes, system development, and enterprise architecture.

Because of both their size and their integrated nature, ES are difficult to implement, and are associated with a variety of organizational changes. Organizations expect, but unfortunately do not always realize, significant benefits from their sizable investments in ES. Because of the importance of ES in organizations, educators continue to explore approaches for introducing ES into IS and other business curricula.

Mini-Tracks:


Cloud Operations and Very Large Business Applications (VLBA)

Holger Schrödl, University of Magdeburg, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Emerging technologies like mash-ups, web 2.0 and cloud computing on the one side and the increasing agility of business models on the other side raises the question how Enterprise Systems will look like in the future. Therefore, we see a new class of Enterprise Systems which address the need for more agility in the entire value chain with a loosely coupled system of distinct elements, orchestrated to a highly integrated, complex Information System (Very Large Business Applications, VLBA).

VLBA act as enabler for intra- and interorganisational business processes and play a significant role in the development of new business models. This Mini-Track aims at studying, grounding, and finally exploiting the potential of VLBA to solve integration and coordination problems in distributed business processes as a key enabler of flexible boundaryless information systems.

This minitrack is continuing the scientific discussion on the topic of VLBA in an international perspective from AMCIS 2012 and AMCIS 2013.


Enterprise Architecture and Organizational Success

Frank Armour, American University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Alberto Espinosa
Steve Kaisler
William Delone
Peter Loos

Enterprise Architecting (EA) is the process of developing enterprise Information Technology architecture – both its description and its implementation. An EA description focuses on a holistic and integrated view of the why, where, and who uses IT systems and how and what they are used for within an organization. An enterprise architect (and his/her team) develops the strategy and enables the decisions for designing, developing, and deploying IT systems to support the business operations as well as to assess, select, and integrate the technology into the organization’s infrastructure. Alignment between business and IT has remained one of the top issues for CIOs and IS managers.

This mini-track would help to advance the knowledge of EA; help to learn about effective processes and approaches to effectively manage the EA; and begin to identify ways to measure the organizational benefits derived from EA.


Teaching Enterprise Information Systems

Lars-Olof Johansson, Halmstad University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Ulrika Snis
Johan Magnusson

The mini-track Teaching Enterprise Information Systems has a focus on the challenges and opportunities educators face when teaching Enterprise Information systems. The design, implementation and use of an enterprise information system (EIS) are a complex task; after all an EIS is an example of a large integrated system spanning organizational boundaries. The mini-track are welcoming papers describing or exploring approaches to teaching the design, implementation or use of EIS that enhances students learning. Papers submitted to this mini-track could be empirical or conceptual but they are all grounded in theoretical frameworks (pedagogical, didactical, Knowledge Management, organizational learning, educational technology etc.) relevant for studying teaching and learning in relation to enterprise information systems. This track provides an opportunity for enterprise information systems educators and researchers to exchange ideas, techniques, and best practices in order to support teaching and learning.


Enterprise System Adoption and Business Models

Carsten Brockmann, University Potsdam, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Piotr Soja
Katja Andresen
JP Allen

Enterprise systems (ES) are extremely complex software packages designed for integrating data flow across an entire company, emerged from earlier MRP, MRP II and ERP systems. Over time, ES have expanded to include more and more areas of an organization’s operations, and have extended organizational boundaries and support interorganizational activities. Today’s enterprise systems are expected to support modern organizations that operate in dynamic and turbulent business environments, compete in global markets, face mergers and takeovers, and participate in business alliances and joint ventures.


Social Media, User Experiences and Enterprise Systems

Honglei Li, Northumbria University, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

User experience refers to the subjective, dynamic and emotional side of technology usage. Originating from the practical side of interface design, user experience has recently been penetrating into the academic field mainly because of the recent design stream alongside burgeoning social computing software such as Facebook, LinkedIn, etc and devices such as iPad, tablet PCs and smartphones. Given this fact, many new software product developments focus on holistic user experience from user’s perspective to improve product quality as well as the overall business performance. With this wave of new user experience design, the software design has shifted from function-centred to user centred. However, the interfaces of most enterprise systems, such as ERP systems are still in its legacy state where users won’t be able to communicate with each other. This mini-track aims at exploring the user experience perspective of enterprise systems to find solutions to tackle the issue of legacy interface of enterprise systems.


Enterprise Systems and Risk Management

Fernando Parra, University of Texas at El Paso, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The possibility that events will interfere with the achievement of a firm’s objectives demands appropriate risk management, which encompasses the assessment of financial and operational exposure, data integrity and the development of containment strategies. Enterprise systems may pose unique risks due to the tightly interlinked business processes, customizations, and integration with other applications. Key enterprise systems characteristics that impact security and internal control include degree of standardization, centralization, authorization, and access to functions, as well as automation of controls versus existing internal control structure. Enterprise systems may also present an opportunity for the integration of enterprise-wide risk management and compliance efforts. The global rise of enterprise systems merits further examination of their role in relation to security management with a global lens.

This minitrack solicits research studies that seek to explore compliance, security and risk aspects of Enterprise Systems.


Use and Functions of Enterprise Systems in Changing Environments

Norbert Gronau, University of Potsdam, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it." target="_blank">
Mary Sumner, Southern University of Illinois Edwardsville, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Enterprise are embedded in a digital, technological environment. Global trends like the mobile workforce and the increasing degree of networked interactions through social media and other internet based communication channels are commonly found. Business processes also continuously change. The complex and currently unflexible enterprise systems need to be modified in order to met most current and future requirements. This mini-track focusses invites contributions covering new use forms of enterprise systems as well as innovative solutions.

The mini-track is endorsed by the Special Interest Group for enterprise systems (SIGENTSYS) of the AIS. The Journal AIS Transactions on Enterprise Systems is the sponsoring journal of the track. The Journal will invite successful submissions for a special edition. Full research papers, research in progress papers and prototypes are welcome.

Call for Papers:

Enterprise systems have evolved from large monolithic systems installed on premise towards fragmented systems. Any aspect of an enterprise system is delivered: functions, processes, data, hardware and infrastructure. A paradigm shift took place: the functionality of enterprise systems has become available as software-as-a-service (SaaS), provided on-demand to clients via the Internet. Part of this paradigm shift is an increase degree of provided functionality. In addition, enterprise systems-related solutions such as SCM, SRM and CRM have been integrated, embedded or closely coupled with on-demand services. Mobile access via smartphones and tablets also affects enterprise systems. This track focuses on the whole area of enterprise systems like ERP, CRM, SCM or MIS. Submissions are welcome on the following topics, but are not limited to:

  • On-demand enterprise systems
  • Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and other architectural approaches for enterprise systems
  • Enterprise systems-as-a-service, i.e. software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions
  • Impact of the "Internet of things" and „Cyber-physical systems“ on the future enterprise systems
  • Integration of legacy applications in enterprise systems with state-of-the-art components
  • Mobile enterprise systems and related areas (e.g. mobile SCM, mobile CRM, mobile SRM)
  • Integration of collaboration and social networking technologies within enterprise systems
  • Social business process modeling tools that help in modeling enterprise systems processes
  • Big data and business analytics through enterprise systems