Agile systems development (SD) is described as a cooperative game of invention and communication, in which teams are characterized by relying heavily on informal communication mechanisms such as face-to-face conversations. Our current state of knowledge about the actual communication process in...

Today’s organizations are struggling with increasing business process complexity and face serious problems when standardizing business processes. A possible strategy seems to be to enhance standardization efforts in order to ensure standardization success. In this paper, we analyze the...

With respect to the major role information warehouses play for the management an approach for specifying management views within the requirements specification phase is presented. Based on a framework relating development phases and abstraction layers the roles of documents within development...

The specification of management views on business processes is a main development task in the requirements specification of reporting systems for the management. Today the information warehouse is the accepted IT architecture for this purpose. The paper summarises the state of the research on...

Based on recent work on the so called MetaMIS approach we show how fact calculations can be specified from a management point of view. The MetaMIS approach's intention is to specify management views on business processes. It comprises a language, a representation formalism and guidelines to...

Research in the field of information warehousing mostly focuses technical aspects. Only recently some contributions are found dealing with methodical aspects of information warehouse development processes. With respect to the central role information warehouses play for the management a...

Die primären Untersuchungsgegenstände der Wirtschaftsinformatik sind betriebliche Informationssysteme sowie die Rahmenbedingungen, unter denen sich ihre Entwicklung, Einführung und Nutzung vollziehen. Ihre Ursprünge hat die Wirtschaftsinformatik in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften auf der einen...

Bei der derzeitigen Diskussion von OLAP und Data Warehouse wird die technische Umsetzung von Führungsinformationssystemen (FIS) in den Mittelpunkt gestellt. Dennoch bleibt der Inhalt, den entsprechende Softwaresysteme transportieren sollen, die entscheidende Qualitätsdeterminante. Deshalb wird...

Die Kopplung von Anwendungssystemen ist als komplexes Entwicklungsproblem im Sinne der Wirtschaftsinformatik zu begreifen. Der Beitrag ordnet aktuelle Standards und Technologien den Entwicklungsphasen der Informationssystementwicklung als Gestaltungsoptionen zu. Anhand von Terminologien und...