Key aspects on free and open source enterprise resources planning systems / Rogerio Atem de Carvalho, Björn Johansson -- An analytical survey of free/open source ERP systems and their potential marketplace in Brazil / Marcelo Monsores, Asterio Tanaka -- Why selecting an open source ERP over...

"This book provides integrated chapters on software engineering and enterprise systems focusing on parts integrating requirements engineering, software engineering, process and frameworks, productivity technologies, and enterprise systems"--Provided by publisher.

This paper identifies the factors for adopting Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) delivered as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) among small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The authors conducted a two phases' qualitative-methodology: interviews with 20 experts from SaaS vendor (Microsoft) and a...

Alignment between business strategy and information strategy has been focused on for several years with research suggesting different explanations to how this alignment influences a firm's performance. This article presents results from an investigation of firms in Slovenia about how business...

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) post-adoption stages (use and value) and small and medium enterprises (SME) are of high interest among both academics and practitioners. Grounded in the diffusion of innovation theory to explain ERP use and resource-based view theory to explain ERP value the...

Supply chain design and operational decisions may impact the energy needed to keep the products flowing through to the customers. It is a challenge to determine the energy consumption and even more challenging to understand the impact of design and operational decisions on the energy consumption...

We study prediction problems for models where the underlying probability measure is not known. These problems are intimately connected with time reversal of Markov processes, and optimal predictors are shown to be characterized by being reverse martingales. For a class of diffusions we give a...