Originally, Data Warehouses (DWH) were conceived to be components for the data support ofcontrolling and management. From early on, this brought along the need to cope with extensive datapreparation, integration, and distribution requirements. In the growing infrastructures for managerialsupport...

For SMEs in turbulent business environments, frequent formation and re-configuration of Virtual Organisations (VOs) becomes imperative. Critical challenges of effective and efficient VO set-up arise when trying to find a constellation of harmonising partners who are able to provide...

The growing relevance, scale, and complexity of Business Intelligence (BI) entails the need to findagile and efficient solutions for the coordination of maintenance and release processes – underconsideration of the heterogeneity of the involved units on the IT and the business side. The...

Quality plays an important role in software development. Even so, in most software projects testing –as one quality improvement and control technique - is not planned properly and thus requires moretime and resources than initially planned. This shortcoming can only be avoided if planning...

A wiki is a web based software which allows all visitors of a website to change its content by editing the siteonline in a web browser. With this key capability a wiki is an easy to use platform for collaborative working on(hyper-)texts...

This paper describes the successful appliance of QFD methods to select and manage external IT ServiceProviders / IT Suppliers within an IT project.On one hand, realization concepts or technical ideas of the various potential external IT partners wereanalyzed, compared and weighted with also...

The development of mobile application systems is usually realized on the basis of iterative process models ofwhich there are many different variants. The selection of an appropriate process model is a crucial issue forthe success of every system development project, particularly for systems in a...