-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] AMCIS 2012 Minitrack: Advancing Enterprise Resource Planning Through Technology Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:13:14 +0100 From: jorge.marx.gomez@uni-oldenburg.de To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org CC: Carsten.Brockmann@wi.uni-potsdam.de, "Prof. Dr. Karl Kurbel" kurbel.bi@europa-uni.de

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 â?? 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 â?? 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:

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Important Dates

â?¢ January 3, 2012: Manuscript Central will start accepting paper submissions â?¢ March 1, 2012: (11:59 PM Pacific time zone): Deadline for paper submissions â?¢ April 2, 20012: Authors will be notified of acceptances on or about this date â?¢ 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

------------ 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