Enterprise application software vendors seek to re-produce the success story of consumer mobile apps in their domain. Like private users, business users ask for flexible, consumer-grade applications for their daily work. However, enterprise software applications do not meet those expectations...

Unternehmen der Systementwicklung stehen heutzutage vor der Aufgabe ihre Prozesse optimal auf die jeweiligen Projektziele auszurichten, um den Projektanforderungen gerecht zu werden. Die Optimierung der Prozesse geschieht dabei auf den Planungsabstraktionen der Entwicklungsprozesse, der...

Das Hauptziel des Forschungsprojekts war die Untersuchung der beiden wichtigsten Webseiten-Charakteristika - Bedienbarkeit und Interaktivität - und die Erkenntnisgewinnung zu Einstellung und Verhalten von Firmen bezüglich der Innovations-Diffusion auf ihrer Unternehmenswebseite. Der...

Purpose: A growing number of commercial open source software, based on free open source software, appears in many segments of software market. The purpose of this study is to investigate how commercial open source software affects proprietary software producer's pricing (market share or profit),...

In the course of sales process of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems, it turns out that the standard system must be extended or changed (modified) according to specific customer’s requirements. Therefore, suppliers face the problem of determining the cost of additional works. Most...

We investigate enabling performance measurement systems (PMS) in operations, i.e., systems that are perceived by employees as assisting with their daily work. We contrast enabling PMS with those that are primarily a control device by senior management. Previous research in accounting suggests...

Researchers in the area of information security have mainly been concerned with tools, techniques and policies that firms can use to protect themselves against security breaches. However, information security is as much about security software as it is about secure software. Software is not...