Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Information Management

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 4th Working Conference on Practice-Driven Research on Enterprise Transformation (PRET), held in Gdańsk, Poland, on June 27, 2012, as the industrial track of the 24th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2012).

Restructuring, divesting, improving performance, and merging are among the usual transformation activities that enterprises conduct to provide answers to the challenging demands put on them. To foster the much-needed debate between researchers and practitioners on these topics, the...

Smart Grids sollen eine sichere und interoperable Basis beispielsweise fur E-Energy bilden. Dieser Leitfaden enthalt neben den Grundlagen fur die Architekturentwicklung von Smart Grids einen Uberblick uber dazu bereits existierende Arbeiten sowie eine abstrakte Referenzarchitektur. Daneben werden relevante Sicherheitsstandards beschrieben, domanenspezifische Standards wie die CIM-Norm vorgestellt sowie Methoden zur Prufung der Standardkonformitat aufgefuhrt. Abschliessend werden Realisierungsbeispiele umrissen und erste Best Practices erortert.

In the last fifty years the world has been completely transformed through the use of IT. We have now reached a new inflection point. This book presents, for the first time, how in-memory data management is changing the way businesses are run. Today, enterprise data is split into separate databases for performance reasons. Multi-core CPUs, large main memories, cloud computing and powerful mobile devices are serving as the foundation for the transition of enterprises away from this restrictive model. This book provides the technical foundation for processing combined transactional and...

How an organization manages its information is arguably the most important skill in today s dynamic and hyper-competitive environment. In Enterprise Information Management, editor Paul Baan and a team of expert contributors present a holistic approach to EIM, with an emphasis on action-oriented decision making. The authors demonstrate that EIM must be promoted from the top down, in order to ensure that the entire organization is committed to establishing and supporting the systems and processes designed to capture, store, analyze, and disseminate information. They identify three key...

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the Third Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems (SCIS), held in Sigtuna, Sweden, in August 2012.The digitization of modern society's information and communication structures has fundamentally changed our everyday life, economy, business, and society. How can information systems research as an academic yet pragmatic discipline contribute to designing the interactive society? The Scandinavian IS tradition with its emphasis on engaged scholarship, action research, and socially embedded design has a lot to contribute to this discussion....