This volume presents the revised and peer reviewed contributions of the 'ERP Future 2014' conference held in Dornbirn/Austria on November 17 and 18, 2014. Since 2009 the ERP Future conference has been a scientific platform for research which is held each year at a different research institution. In addition to the scientific community the conference also addresses businesses developing, implementing and intensively using enterprise information systems. The research conference focusses in generally on enterprise systems and specifically on core topics such as business process management, business intelligence and enterprise resource planning systems. Submitted contributions cover the given topics from a business and a technological point of view. This combination of aspects is a unique characteristic of the conference, which results in several valuable contributions with a highly theoretical as well as practical background.

Autorentext

Felix Piazolo is associate professor (Chair in Business Administration) at the Andrássy University Budapest, Hungary, postdoc researcher at the Department of Strategic Management, Marketing and Tourism at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and lecturer at diverse universities in the areas of strategic management, enterprise information systems and innovation processes (including AAL projects). He has studied at the University of Innsbruck, the University of St. Gallen and the University of Granada and holds a Ph.D. in business economics. Being responsible for several national and international research projects in these fields he additionally provides business consulting services for companies. Michael Felderer is research associate and project manager at the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science. His research interests include software testing, software quality in general, risk management, empirical software engineering, software processes, requirements engineering, industry-academia collaboration and ERP systems. Besides his research activities, he transfers research results into practice as a consultant and speaker on industrial conferences

Zusammenfassung

This volume presents the revised and peer reviewed contributions of the 'EPR Future 2014' conference held in Dornbirn/Austria on November 17-18th, 2014. 

The book assembles latest research and recent practice on enterprise information systems in general and specifically on core topics like business process management (BPM), business intelligence (BI) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. To master the challenges of enterprise information systems comprehensively, this book contains chapters with a business as well as an IT focus to consider enterprise information systems from various viewpoints.

Inhalt
Part I: Critical Success Factors of ERP Systems.- Part II: Business Process Models.- Part III: Implementation and Testing Aspects of ERP Systems.- Part IV: Software Usability of ERP Systems.- Part V: Business Intelligence Strategy.- Part VI: Public Sector.