scholarly journals Towards a Thorough Evaluation Framework of Software Tools Suitable for Small and Medium Size Enterprises Focusing on Modelling and Simulating Business Processes

2017 ◽  
pp. 161-182
Author(s):  
Rallis C. Papademetriou ◽  
Dimitrios A. Karras
Keyword(s):  
Business Processes ◽  
Software Tools ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Medium Size

Environment for Managing Software Maintenance Projects

2011 ◽  
pp. 255-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Ruiz ◽  
Felix Garcia ◽  
Mario Piattini ◽  
Macario Polo
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Software Maintenance ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Software Tools ◽  
Main Attention ◽  
Process Enactment ◽  
Engineering Environment ◽  
Meta Object Facility ◽  
Wide Perspective ◽  
Main Components

A Software Engineering Environment (SEE) is quite useful in order to manage the complexity of SM projects, since it can provide the needed services. Of the different aspects to highlight in these environments, in this chapter we put our main attention on those that are more directly related to the goal of helping in the management of SM complexity: to approach the SMP from a wide perspective of business processes to integrate technological and management aspects; to define a Process-centered Software Engineering Environment (PSEE); and to use a multilevel conceptual architecture based on standards like MOF (Meta-Object Facility). The MANTIS proposal of integral environment for the management of SM projects is also presented, and the main components of this environment are commented: conceptual tools (multilevel architecture, ontologies, software processes models and metamodels); methodological tools (methodology, and interfaces with organizational and managerial processes) and technical tools (horizontal and vertical software tools, repository, and interaction with process enactment software tools).

scholarly journals КОНСОЛІДОВАНО-АНАЛІТИЧНА СИСТЕМА ОЦІНЮВАННЯ РОЗВИТКУ ПІДПРИЄМСТВ ЯК ОСНОВА УПРАВЛІНСЬКОЇ ЕФЕКТИВНОСТІ: ДОЦІЛЬНІСТЬ ЗАСТОСУВАННЯ ДИВЕРСИФІКАЦІЙНО-ІНТЕГРАЦІЙНОГО НАПРЯМУ

2020 ◽  
Vol 147 (3) ◽  
pp. 83-97
Author(s):  
Христина Ярославівна Залуцька
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Process Optimization ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Development Trend ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Business Development ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Analytical Evaluation ◽  
Current Position ◽  
Modern Development

In the context of neo-technological reproduction, the diversification and integration development strategy will contribute to ensuring long-term effective business performance through extensive use of available business capacities necessary for creating products which foster transformational process cycling within their operating environment. The diversified integrative development is a unique development paradigm that triggers optimally rational use of the enterprise current position specifics, opportunities for diversification, identification of business units within business operational activity structure as well as offers benefits of its integration with attractive stakeholders. In turn, this translates into the need to build a certain consolidated framework for evaluating the above development trend which would enable to determine the feasibility, expediency, and the relevance of such development. This ideally should be grounded upon the promising business processes in the current and strategic periods and thus driving the priority of their efficiency evaluation alongside the opportunity for rationalization of the number and structure of particular business processes to ensure enterprise effective functioning in the neo-technological reproduction settings. The purpose of this article is to build a consolidated analytical framework to evaluate the diversified integrative business development as the core for its managerial efficiency. The research has been carried out by employing the methods of classification; analogy; abstraction; grouping; analysis; synthesis and morphological analysis. The developed consolidated analytical evaluation framework is based on the principles that enable to explore the relevance and the applicability of using the diversification and integration development strategy and to assess its implementation effectiveness. The findings provide rationale for selecting indicators to assess the relevance of implementing the diversification and integration development strategy by using a development trend criterion, since the evaluation results obtained for each unit will facilitate the possibility and specify the need for its application, subject to enterprise business environment specifics as well as its further development prospects. To attain better effectiveness in selecting a promising development trend, a corresponding evaluation framework has been suggested based on performance efficiency indicators, optimality, and the maximum possible effectiveness of the interaction between enterprise business processes, identified within its structural components which boosts these process optimization to ensure successful business development in conditions of rapidly changing environment. It is argued the proposed consolidated analytical evaluation framework will contribute to assessing the enterprise current position, its compliance with modern development trends and opportunities for increasing performance efficiency through rationalization of enterprise business structure (business process optimization), along with providing implications that help selecting an effective area for further successful strategic development.

Comparative Analysis of Contemporary Modeling Languages Based on BPM4KI Meta-Model for Sensitive Business Processes Representation

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 41-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariam Ben Hassen ◽  
Mohamed Turki ◽  
Faïez Gargouri
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Modeling Languages ◽  
Dynamic Complexity ◽  
Business Process Modelling ◽  
Multi Criteria Evaluation ◽  
Modeling Formalism ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Selection Of

This article presents a set of Sensitive Business Process (SBP) modeling requirements and proposes a multi-criteria evaluation framework to appraise the expressiveness of currently widely used business process modelling formalisms to select the most suitable for SBP representation. The modelling of SBPs, be they process oriented or knowledge oriented, presents special requirements dictated by several factors: the highly dynamic complexity and flexibility of the processes; the high number of critical activities requiring intensive acquisition, sharing, storage and (re)use of very specific crucial knowledge; the specificity and diversity of information and knowledge sources; and the high degree of collaboration and interaction (intra/inter-organizational) among participants (who apply, create and share a great amount of very important tacit organizational knowledge, in order to achieve collective objectives and create value). As SBP models get more complex, the selection of the appropriate modeling formalism gains in importance to improve the identification of crucial knowledge that is mobilized and created by these processes. Furthermore, the result of the evaluation led us to justify the choice of the better one positioned nowadays, the standard BPMN 2.0. Besides, the authors have illustrated the practical applicability of this specification on a medical process in the context of the organization of protection of the motor disabled people of Sfax-Tunisia.

scholarly journals МЕТОДИЧНІ ЗАСАДИ ДІАГНОСТУВАННЯ РЕЗУЛЬТАТИВНОСТІ МОДЕРНІЗАЦІЇ ПІДПРИЄМСТВ У КОНТЕКСТІ РЕАЛІЗАЦІЇ ІННОВАЦІЙНОГО ПОТЕНЦІАЛУ

2021 ◽  
Vol 149 (4) ◽  
pp. 8-16
Author(s):  
Олена В. Ареф’єва ◽  
Ольга М. Вовк ◽  
Софія М. Очеретяна
Keyword(s):  
Business Strategy ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Impact Factors ◽  
Innovative Development ◽  
Investment Performance ◽  
Innovation Potential ◽  
Integrated Index ◽  
Innovative Potential ◽  
Enterprise Modernization

The growing dynamism of the intellectualization and logistics of business processes is generating demands for updating the toolkit to assess the enterprise modernization performance and realize its innovative potential. It is argued that the evaluation of modernization efficiency and the design of enterprise innovative development strategies should rely on innovation and R&D trends and achievements. An in-depth study of the external and internal environment in which an enterprise operates helps to reveal the patterns and specifics in its innovation potential assessment paradigm. Thus, the framework to assess the enterprise innovation potential efficiency is based on its production, financial and investment performance evaluation. The consistency in modernization performance suggests following the principles of universality and comparability. Since the use of classical innovation efficiency indicators does not allow for considering the qualitative characteristics of modernization changes, a new framework to assess the modernization performance has been developed which is based on economic and mathematical analysis methods and is aimed at building an integrated index. The integrated index of modernization efficiency will help to determine the modernization potential level, the effects from a range of impact factors on the change of the modernization profile, as well as to reveal the trends of innovative development. This contributes to describing the proposed evaluation framework subject to initial enterprise modernization objectives and its strategic priorities for innovative development. Further research should focus on identifying specific methodological approaches to assessing the performance of modernization changes in line with the overall business strategy to enhance the enterprise innovative potential.

An Analysis of the Impact of 2.0 Tools and Technologies on Organizational Processes

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-60
Author(s):  
Félix Pascual-Miguel ◽  
Julián Chaparro-Peláez ◽  
Ángel Hernández-García
Keyword(s):  
Business Processes ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Software Tools ◽  
Social Software ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Organizational Processes ◽  
Usage Rate ◽  
The Impact

In this paper, the authors present results from a study on the usage rate of 2.0 tools and technologies among Spanish enterprises. The main objective of the study is to analyze, from the perceptions of executives, the influence of social software tools on a set of business processes. This analysis has been made using two graphic tools: the “2.0 Success Matrix” and the “Tool’s Footprint”. Both the review of literature and the empirical work have lead to important findings and conclusions.

Use of Software and Collaboration Tools to Integrate AIS and MIS Curricula

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vance Etnyre ◽  
Constance Lehmann
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
System Development ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Software Tools ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Software Packages ◽  
Collaboration Tools ◽  
Integrated Program

ABSTRACT This paper discusses the collaboration our university has developed between the AIS and MIS programs. We include learning objectives for the overall learning objectives of our integrated program, suggestions for collaboration, and the courses addressing the identified objectives. The authors have found that using software tools can improve collaboration across departments can add to the learning experience in both the accounting and MIS programs. AIS instructors can use software tools to demonstrate how control requirements are implemented within information systems. MIS instructors can use software tools to provide explanations and examples of program structures and data structures used in information systems. Instructors with training in ERP systems can use software tools to add valuable perspective in discussions of scalability, multiple currencies, conversion of measuring units, and automation of business processes. Tools which are used to support instruction can also be used to enable collaboration between faculty members. When group projects are used to teach information system development, additional collaboration tools can be included to give students experience in working within a workgroup environment. The authors discuss their experience in the use of software packages and collaboration tools to better prepare our students to succeed in the challenging business environment of audit and IT professionals.

fMRI analysis software tools: an evaluation framework

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Pedoia ◽  
Vittoria Colli ◽  
Sabina Strocchi ◽  
Cristina Vite ◽  
Elisabetta Binaghi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Software Tools ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Analysis Software ◽  
Fmri Analysis

Sensitive Business Processes: Characteristics, Representation, and Evaluation of Modeling Approaches

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-77
Author(s):  
Mariam Ben Hassen ◽  
Mohamed Turki ◽  
Faiez Gargouri
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Dynamic Complexity ◽  
Business Process Modelling ◽  
Multi Criteria Evaluation ◽  
Modeling Formalism ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Medical Process ◽  
Selection Of

This article presents a set of sensitive business process (SBP) modeling requirements and proposes a multi-criteria evaluation framework to appraise the expressiveness of currently widely used business process modelling formalisms to select the most suitable for SBP representation. The modelling of SBPs, be they process oriented or knowledge oriented, presents special requirements dictated by several factors: the highly dynamic complexity and flexibility of the processes; the high number of critical activities requiring intensive acquisition, sharing, storage and (re)use of very specific crucial knowledge; the specificity and diversity of information and knowledge sources; and the high degree of collaboration and interaction (intra/inter-organizational) among participants (who apply, create and share a great amount of very important tacit organizational knowledge, in order to achieve collective objectives and create value). As SBP models get more complex, the selection of the appropriate modeling formalism gains in importance to improve the identification of crucial knowledge that is mobilized and created by these processes. Furthermore, the result of the evaluation led us to justify the choice of the better one positioned nowadays, the standard BPMN 2.0. Besides, the authors have illustrated the practical applicability of this specification on a medical process in the context of the organization of protection of the motor disabled people of Sfax-Tunisia.

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