An Open Source Software Approach To Combine Simulation And Optimization Of Business Processes

The Automation of Standard People Operations in the Energy Transport

Research Papers ◽

10.37075/2021.5/rp.2021.5.09 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 61 (5) ◽

pp. 203-213

Keyword(s):

Open Source ◽

Open Source Software ◽

Business Processes ◽

Energy Transport ◽

Human Intervention ◽

Global Trend ◽

Human Labour ◽

The Future ◽

Automation Tools ◽

And Control

The automation of business processes and operations is a global trend. Automation is software or mechanical self-fulfilling process without or with a minimal human intervention and control. In specific processes and parts of the energy transport the automation is already happening. It can replace significant part of human labour or just to take and reduce the routine physical or repeating mental efforts of the jobs. Automation tools and systems in the energy transport are strongly dominated by open-source software automation tools. Therefore, a part of professional skills required before automation will not be useful in the future, but to handle automation trend, many new skills and knowledge will be needed by the human jobs of the future.

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Opportunities to observe and measure intangible inputs to innovation: Definitions, operationalization, and examples

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ◽

10.1073/pnas.1800467115 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 115 (50) ◽

pp. 12638-12645 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Sallie Keller ◽

Gizem Korkmaz ◽

Carol Robbins ◽

Stephanie Shipp

Keyword(s):

Open Source ◽

Administrative Data ◽

Open Source Software ◽

Data Science ◽

Business Processes ◽

Organizational Innovation ◽

Innovation Process ◽

Sources Of Information ◽

First Case ◽

Science Framework

Measuring the value of intangibles is not easy, because they are critical but usually invisible components of the innovation process. Today, access to nonsurvey data sources, such as administrative data and repositories captured on web pages, opens opportunities to create intangibles based on new sources of information and capture intangible innovations in new ways. Intangibles include ownership of innovative property and human resources that make a company unique but are currently unmeasured. For example, intangibles represent the value of a company’s databases and software, the tacit knowledge of their workers, and the investments in research and development (R&D) and design. Through two case studies, the challenges and processes to both create and measure intangibles are presented using a data science framework that outlines processes to discover, acquire, profile, clean, link, explore the fitness-for-use, and statistically analyze the data. The first case study shows that creating organizational innovation is possible by linking administrative data across business processes in a Fortune 500 company. The motivation for this research is to develop company processes capable of synchronizing their supply chain end to end while capturing dynamics that can alter the inventory, profits, and service balance. The second example shows the feasibility of measurement of innovation related to the characteristics of open source software through data scraped from software repositories that provide this information. The ultimate goal is to develop accurate and repeatable measures to estimate the value of nonbusiness sector open source software to the economy. This early work shows the feasibility of these approaches.

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The Challenges of Open Source Software Alternatives

EPJ Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/epjconf/202125101003 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 251 ◽

pp. 01003

Author(s):

Aristofanis Chionis-Koufakos ◽

Maria Dimou ◽

Michal Kolodziejski

Keyword(s):

Open Source ◽

Open Source Software ◽

Business Processes ◽

Personal Data ◽

Ease Of Use ◽

User Requirements ◽

Web Based ◽

Software Application ◽

Operational Quality

Developing an Open Source Software application is a challenge. Mainly because there are commercial alternatives that have an army of expert developers behind them, experienced supporters and wellestablished business processes in their development and promotion. Nevertheless, web-based applications, that securely handle the users’ personal data are an area of freedom and ease of use, features that make such applications very attractive. The “ease-of-use” part is very hard to achieve, for the developers and the end-users. Dependencies change often in OSS packages, so the fear that something breaks is always around the corner. If the application looks attractive, additional user requirements fall like rain. This poses a problem of continuity, maintenance and operational quality of the packages. In this paper and presentation we shall share our experience in building such a tool, using https://cern.ch/slides, as a showcase and a learning exercise. We shall describe what was available, what was missing, how it was put together, how much effort it took, and what was achieved.

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ANALISIS FUNGSIONALITAS OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE ERP UNTUK PENGEMBANGAN MODUL PEMBELAJARAN ERP

Jurnal Sistem Informasi ◽

10.21609/jsi.v7i2.302 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 118

Author(s):

Putu Wuri Handayani ◽

Ultary Hariyaty

Keyword(s):

Open Source ◽

Open Source Software ◽

Best Practice ◽

Business Processes ◽

Learning Modules ◽

Erp Software

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis perbandingan fungsionalitas open source software ERP dalam pengembangan modul pembelajaran untuk proses bisnis penjualan, distribusi serta pengadaan. Penelitian ini membandingkan tiga OSS ERP yaitu Compiere 3.3 Community Edition, Openbravo 3.0 Community Edition, dan xTuple 3.6 PostBooks Edition. Kebutuhan functional masing-masing modul diturunkan dari proses bisnis best practice ERP. Hasil penelitian adalah suatu aplikasi yang direkomendasikan untuk mendukung kegiatan pembelajaran ERP di tingkat universitas dan daftar kebutuhan fungsionalitas yang dibutuhkan untuk modul pembelajaran, seperti modul penjualan dan distribusi serta modul pengadaan dengan menggunakan aplikasi yang direkomendasikan sebelumnya. This study aims to analyze the comparison of the functionality of open source ERP software in the development of learning modules for the business processes of sales, distribution and procurement. This study compared three OSS ERP that are Compiere Community Edition 3.3, Openbravo Community Edition 3.0, and 3.6 xTuple PostBooks Edition. Functional needs of each module is derived from best practice business processes ERP. Hasil penelitian adalah suatu aplikasi yang direkomendasikan untuk mendukung kegiatan pembelajaran ERP di tingkat universitas dan daftar kebutuhan fungsionalitas yang dibutuhkan untuk modul pembelajaran, seperti modul penjualan dan distribusi serta modul pengadaan dengan menggunakan aplikasi yang direkomendasikan sebelumnya.

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A Cost Model of Open Source Software Adoption

Handbook of Research on ICT-Enabled Transformational Government ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-390-6.ch021 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 396-418 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Barbara Russo ◽

Giancarlo Succi

Keyword(s):

Open Source ◽

Open Source Software ◽

Business Processes ◽

Cost Model ◽

It Adoption ◽

Promising Alternative ◽

Software Adoption ◽

Limited Budget ◽

Transformational Government ◽

Public Bodies

A limited budget for IT may lock public bodies in obsolete inefficient solutions slowing down their process of innovation. Various actions of estimating, controlling, and reducing IT costs have been already performed at national and European levels and Open Source Software (OSS) has been often pointed as a promising alternative that may also render public services and the underlying business processes more transparent and accessible to citizens. In this chapter, we propose a model of cost of a migration to OSS as a decision making instrument that helps public bodies being autonomous and independent in the IT adoption. The model is empirically validated in the real daily operations of more than 3,500 users. If adopted systematically our model might be a powerful tool to support transformational government and to establish an empirical open knowledge base on the economic advantages of OSS on which to found future strategies of OSS adoption.

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Building a Lightweight SOA (Implementierung einer Service Orientierten Architektur mit Open Source)

it - Information Technology ◽

10.1524/itit.2008.0471 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 50 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Ruwan Linton ◽

Paul Fremantle ◽

Sanjiva Weerawarana ◽

Asankha Perera

Keyword(s):

Open Source ◽

Open Source Software ◽

Business Processes ◽

Service Oriented Architecture ◽

Enterprise Service Bus ◽

Service Oriented ◽

Open Standards

SummaryService Oriented Architecture (SOA) has become a mainstream approach for enterprises to integrate their disparate systems — and at the same time create a closer alignment between business processes and IT. In this paper we present an overview of how to implement a Service Oriented Architecture using open standards and open source software (OSS). In particular we will look at the prevalence of open source in SOA, and explore the use of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) in creating and managing an SOA deployment.

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