EXTENSIBLE METADATA REPOSITORY FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS

2007 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Enterprise Applications ◽  
Metadata Repository

scholarly journals Managing Information Systems Textbooks: Assessing their Orientation toward Potential General Managers

10.28945/3314 ◽  
2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Rosenthal ◽  
L Jane Park
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Feasibility Studies ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Business Majors ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
General Managers ◽  
Modern Enterprise ◽  
It Systems ◽  
Enterprise Applications ◽  
Personal Productivity

This paper is an assessment of the topical coverage of current Managing Information Systems (MIS) textbooks. The MIS course is normally required of all undergraduate and graduate business majors , and therefore is their primary education in the use of IS/IT in the modern technology-oriented organization. However, the MIS textbooks researched do not attempt IS/IT management fluency. They do not even fully answer the questions normally asked by management and users during the justification and implementation of modern technology-oriented enterprise applications. The primary author has been teaching IS/IT courses for IS professionals and for users and managers for almost fifty tears. What has changed since that time? Not as much as should have happened in the education of line and staff personnel who work in organizations with critically important IS/IT enterprise applications. Early courses for users and managers were remarkably similar to our current MIS courses. This paper, therefore, suggests a significant change in content of MIS texts from primarily encompassing technology sections covering personal productivity applications, systems development methods, and infrastructure to presenting much more detail on user and management topics including modern enterprise level applications (e.g. transaction processing systems), privacy and security, feasibility studies, and the justification of IS/IT systems.

XML based Metadata Repository for Information Systems

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Ferreira ◽  
Joao Moura-Pires ◽  
Ramiro Martins ◽  
Marta Pantoquilho
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Metadata Repository

Policy-Level Specifications in REA Enterprise Information Systems

2006 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guido L. Geerts ◽  
William E. McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Object Class ◽  
Enterprise Information ◽  
Enterprise Information Systems ◽  
Enterprise Model ◽  
Enterprise Applications ◽  
Policy Level ◽  
Knowledge Intensive

The Resource-Event-Agent (REA) enterprise model is a widely accepted framework for the design of the accountability infrastructure of enterprise information systems. Policy-level specifications define constraints and guidelines under which an enterprise operates, and they are an extension to the REA enterprise model, adding the “what should, could, or must be” to the “what is.” This paper aims both at comprehensive understanding of policy-level definitions as part of REA enterprise systems and at understanding of the semantic constructs that enable such definitions. We first explore two distinctive semantic abstractions essential to policy-level specifications: typification and grouping. The typification abstraction links instances of an object class to concepts for which they are concrete realizations, while the grouping abstraction aggregates objects into collections. We next present a number of patterns for the semantic modeling of policies. Following, we look at policy-level applications for REA enterprise information systems. We explore type and grouping definitions for the REA primitives (resource, event, agent) and discuss enterprise applications for three different kinds of policy definitions: knowledge-intensive descriptions, validation rules, and target descriptions. Our discussion of specific enterprise applications includes internal control applications (e.g., limit checks), variance analysis based on standard specifi-cations (e.g., bills of materials), and budgeting applications.

Impact of Portal Technologies on Executive Information Systems

2011 ◽  
pp. 706-713
Author(s):  
Udo Averweg ◽  
Geoff Erwin ◽  
Don Petkov
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Information Content ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Single Point ◽  
Executive Information Systems ◽  
Web Portal ◽  
Enterprise Applications ◽  
Internet Portals ◽  
Corporate Information ◽  
The Web

Internet portals may be seen as Web sites which provide the gateway to corporate information from a single point of access. Leveraging knowledge—both internal and external—is the key to using a portal as a centralized database of best practices that can be applied across all departments and all lines of business within an organisation (Zimmerman, 2003). The potential of the Web portal market and its technology has inspired the mutation of search engines (for example, Yahoo®) and the establishment of new vendors in that area (for example, Hummingbird® and Brio Technology®). A portal is simply a single, distilled view of information from various sources. Portal technologies integrate information, content, and enterprise applications. However, the term portal has been applied to systems that differ widely in capabilities and complexity (Smith, 2004). A portal aims to establish a community

Impact of Portal Technologies on Executive Information Systems

2008 ◽  
pp. 215-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Udo Averweg ◽  
Geoff Erwin ◽  
Don Petkov
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Information Content ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Single Point ◽  
Executive Information Systems ◽  
Web Portal ◽  
Enterprise Applications ◽  
Internet Portals ◽  
Corporate Information ◽  
The Web

Internet portals may be seen as Web sites which provide the gateway to corporate information from a single point of access. Leveraging knowledge—both internal and external—is the key to using a portal as a centralized database of best practices that can be applied across all departments and all lines of business within an organisation (Zimmerman, 2003). The potential of the Web portal market and its technology has inspired the mutation of search engines (for example, Yahoo®) and the establishment of new vendors in that area (for example, Hummingbird® and Brio Technology®). A portal is simply a single, distilled view of information from various sources. Portal technologies integrate information, content, and enterprise applications. However, the term portal has been applied to systems that differ widely in capabilities and complexity (Smith, 2004). A portal aims to establish a community

Cost Containment in Information Systems

1984 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-185
Author(s):  
Michael E. D. Koenig
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Cost Containment
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