CALL FOR
CHAPTER PROPOSALS
ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR BUSINESS INTEGRATION
IN SME.
TECHNOLOGICAL, ORGANIZATIONAL AND SOCIAL DIMENSIONS
(Advances in
Information Resources Management book series:
www.igi-global.com/airm)
A book edited by Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha
Polytechnic
Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal
Proposals submission deadline: May
31, 2008
http://eis_book.ipca.pt
gmail.com">eis.book gmail.com
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We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the "Enterprise
Information
Systems for Business Integration in SMEs: Technological,
Organization and
Social Dimension" within your field of expertise related to
the book
topics.
*** Introduction:
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Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) consist of an integrated
technology
platform that enables organizations to integrate and coordinate
all their
business processes. Today they are a strategic area of primordial
relevance
that impacts organizations, business, economy and
society.
Enterprise solutions no longer
consist of isolated or dispersedly
implemented MRP solutions, electronic
commerce solutions, ERP, etc. They are
now an orchestra of integrated
solutions communicating with each other that
include ERP (or extended ERP),
electronic commerce, supply chain management,
and CRM. These solutions
increase responsiveness, flexibility and agility
and are supported by a
common information infrastructure.
; These
suites of solutions are no longer designed for large
enterprises and
multinationals, with high turnover. They are also a tool for
productivity
and competitiveness and can be implemented in small businesses.
They are no
longer exclusively used in industrial companies; there are now
solutions for
all types of business and sectors of activity.
*** The mission and
overall objectives of this book:
The
mission of this book is to discuss the main issues, challenges,
opportunities and trends related to this area of IT solutions, which is in
permanent evolution, and impacts every part of the organization and the
inter-organizational environment (in particular for SME). Enterprise
Information Systems touch every process of an organization and new
functionalities in existing solutions along with new solutions which emerge
everyday. EIS are responsibly by tremendous gains or even result in
tremendous losses.
Enterprise Information Systems will be addressed
comprehensively from the
technological, organizational and social
perspectives, aiming at to
disseminate current developments, case studies,
new integrated approaches
and practical solutions and
applications.
The overall objectives
are:
- To discuss the importance of Enterprise
Information Systems to Small
and Medium Enterprises and the emerging
technological developments
(information integration, enterprise integration,
functionalities);
- To present practical
solutions;
- To introduce the state-of-the-art solutions
for SME and supported
functionalities;
- To discuss
the open source movement: opportunities, trends, risks,
advantages and
disadvantages;
- To discuss integrated
solutions;
- To introduce and discuss the challenges or
difficulties associated
with the social, organizational and technological
perspectives;
; - To discuss organizational and social
implications;
; - To discuss organizational
preparedness;
; - To discuss adequateness of solutions to
SME requisites and
expectancies;
- To discuss critical
success factors;
- To discuss the future generations of
Enterprise Information Systems.
; The
book is intended to support the academic audience (teachers,
researchers and
students, mainly of post-graduated studies), and IT
professionals (system
developers and IT specialists). It is also intended to
support subjects of
Enterprise Information Systems, Information Systems
Management, Management
Information Systems and Management in general.
*** Recommended
topics:
The book intends to collect
the most recent contributions on the
technological, organizational and
social dimensions of the largely
multidisciplinary field of Enterprise
Information Systems. Recommended
topics include, but are not limited, to the
following:
1.- The technological dimension,
addressing:
- Enterprise information systems' design,
application, implementation,
and impact;
- Emerging
solutions, each time more complex, more efficient, more
integrated and
flexible and covering more and more indispensable
functionalities;
- Competitiveness and market share
among solution providers;
In-house development, off-the-shelf solutions and
open source solutions;
- The new market of open source
solutions and services delivery;
; - Adequateness of
solutions to SME requisites and expectancies;
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Reliability, maintenance and dependency on solution and services
suppliers;
- Parameterization and flexible
adaptation;
- Information systems integration and
Enterprise information
integration;
- Integration of
(legacy) enterprise applications and information;
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Preparedness or readiness of SME for these solutions;
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Critical success factors.
2.- The organizati |
