The European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS) was founded on October, 12th 2004. This Working Paper was written with respect to the establishment of ERCIS. Jörg Becker, Managing Director of the ERCIS, writes about fundamental issues of ERCIS. Furthermore all Founding Members...

BPM research has been of great importance in Germany since the early 1990s. In Russia, increased competition and new IT possibilities have only recently forced both companies and governmental institutions to start taking benefits from BPM. Against this background, the workshop PropelleR 2012...