Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,

wir möchten Sie gern auf den Minitrack "Advancing Enterprise Resource Planning through
Technology" im Rahmen des Tracks "Enterprise Systems" auf der AMCIS 2010 in Lima
(Peru) aufmerksam machen. Der Minitrack thematisiert Fortschritte und
Weiterentwicklungen auf dem Gebiet des Enterprise Resource Planning, die durch neue
Technologien ermöglicht werden. Beiträge, die dem konstruktionsorientierten Paradigma
folgen, sind willkommen.

Deadline für Einreichungen: 1. März 2010
AMCIS-Website: http://www.amcis2010.org/

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Karl Kurbel, Universität Frankfurt (Oder)
Jorge Marx Gomez, Universität Oldenburg

*********************************************************

CALL FOR PAPERS - 16th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)
Minitrack "Advancing Enterprise Resource Planning through Technology"

August 12-15, 2010, Lima (Peru)

**********************************************************

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. The
major vendors' inability to generate significant revenue from software-on-demand
solutions indicates that businesses are not ready yet to adopt out-of-house ERP
solutions on a large-scale basis. The hurdle is likely to be even higher when
anonymous providers of infrastructure and services come into the game, as is the case
with cloud computing. 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.  

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

•	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

Minitrack Chairs

Karl E. Kurbel, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Grosse Scharrnstr. 59,
D-15230 Frankfurt (Oder), Germany; e-mail: kurbel.bi@uni-ffo.de

Jorge C. Marx Gomez, Carl von Ossietzky University, Ammerlaender Heerstr. 114-118,
D-26129 Oldenburg, Germany; e-mail: jorge.marx.gomez@uni-oldenburg.de

**********************************************************