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CALL FOR PAPERS
18th Americas Conference on
Information
Systems
Seattle, Washington, August 9-12,
2012
Minitrack: Advancing Enterprise
Resource
Planning Through Technology
Description:
Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
systems
have evolved from large monolithic systems to more and more
fragmented
systems distributing just about any aspect of a system: functions,
processes,
data, hardware and infrastructure. This change has gone hand in
hand with
the incorporation of more and more business functionality into
ERP. Starting
from material requirements planning (MRP) and manufacturing
resource planning
(MRP II), the financial and human resources functions as well as
executive
information systems and eventually long-term strategic planning
support
for senior management have been included. These developments have
made
an ERP system "the" core information system of an organization
– and the technological backbone that other information systems
need to
collaborate with. ERP related functionality such as supply chain
management
(SCM), customer relationship management (CRM) and supplier
relationship
management (SRM) is either integrated, embedded or closely coupled
with
an ERP system.
Software, hardware and networking
technology
has enabled the increased importance of ERP systems, but it also
posed
technological and managerial challenges. In contrast to the early
ERP monoliths,
we nowadays have distributed architectures – both conventional
in-house
architectures such as client-server and service oriented
architectures
(SOA) as well as externally hosted architectures used by
application-service-providing
(ASP) and software-on-demand solutions. With the appearance of
mobile commerce,
software-as-a-service (SaaS) approaches and cloud computing,
additional
challenges have emerged.
Technologies such as radio
frequency
identification (RFID) have opened up new opportunities for an
organization
to act and react in real-time. RFID, smart items and the "Internet
of things" impose new requirements on ERP systems, such as being
capable
of context-aware information processing.
For the new technologies to be
successfully
implemented, security issues need to be resolved and a
satisfactory level
of trust in the technologies has to be created. Organizations seem
to be
hesitant about having their mission-critical business processes
run somewhere
out in a "cloud" and maintaining their core business data in
a nirvana. Nevertheless, cloud computing is rapidly gaining pace.
In the past, the vendors of
software-on-demand
solutions have not been able to generate significant revenue from
this
type of solution. This is about to change, as cloud computing is
penetrating
every branch of business information processing.
The rationale of this minitrack is
exploration
of new technologies that can further enhance enterprise resource
planning.
We invite papers that pursue a constructionist approach to
information
systems development, following an engineering-like or
design-science research
style. Papers presenting the development of prototypes as a proof
of concept
are welcome. Technology-oriented papers should give consideration
to the
business value of the proposed approaches or solutions.
Suggested Topics:
Topics of interest include, but are
not limited to:
- Architectures for ERP and related
business information systems
- ERP systems based on service
oriented
architectures (SOA)
- Software-as-a-service (SaaS)
solutions
for ERP and related areas
- Orchestrating an ERP system from
web
services/enterprise services
- ERP on demand for small and
medium-size
enterprises
- Federated ERP systems,
standardization
and collaboration issues
- ERP and cloud computing
- Impact of virtualization and
infrastructure-as-a-service
on ERP
- Integrating RFID solutions with
ERP
- Impact of the "Internet of
things"
on future ERP systems
- Integrating legacy ERP systems
with
new components using state-of-the-art technologies
- Mobile ERP and related areas such
as mobile SCM, mobile CRM and mobile SRM
- Security issues and trust in new
technologies
for enterprise resource planning
Submission Procedure
Submit your manuscript using the
manuscript
central system at:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2012
Important Dates
• January 3, 2012: Manuscript
Central will start accepting paper submissions
• March 1, 2012: (11:59
PM Pacific time zone): Deadline for paper submissions
• April 2, 20012: Authors
will be notified of acceptances on or about this date
• April 20, 2012: (11:59
PM Pacific time zone): For accepted papers, camera ready copy due
Minitrack Chairs: Karl Kurbel,
Jorge
Marx Gómez
Prof. Dr. Karl Kurbel
Business Informatics
European University Viadrina
Frankfurt
(Oder)
Germany
kurbel.BI@uni-ffo.de; www.wiwi.uni-ffo.de/bi
ph +49 335 5534 2320, fax +49 335
5534
2321
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jorge Marx Gómez
Business Informatics
Oldenburg University
Germany
Tel. +49 (0) 441/ 798-4470
E-Mail: jorge.marx.gomez@uni-oldenburg.de
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jorge Marx Gómez
Universität Oldenburg
Department für Informatik
Abt. Wirtschaftsinformatik I
Very Large Business Applications
Ammerländer Heerstr. 114-118
26129 Oldenburg
Tel. 0441/ 798-4470
Sekr. -4478 (Julia Franke)
Fax -4472
E-Mail: jorge.marx.gomez@uni-oldenburg.de