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ECIS
2000
13 years 5 months ago
The Extensible Markup Language - New Opportunities in the Area of EDI
: Only about 5% of the companies which could profit from EDI actually use it. The main reason is that especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) try to avoid the consider...
Tim Weitzel, Frank Ladner, Peter Buxmann
ECIS
2000
13 years 5 months ago
On Specifying Contract Negotiations
Abstract eCommerce of the Business-to-Business (B2B) type requires comprehensivecontractnegotiationsdependingentirelyonacontract schema, which must be developed in advance. Contrac...
Hartmut Wedekind
ECIS
2000
13 years 5 months ago
Full Bindingness and Confidentiality
As electronic commerce will increase, players will increasingly wish to have signed documents and strong encryption. According to current knowledge, it must be expected that the co...
Arnd Weber
ECIS
2000
13 years 5 months ago
Enhancing Government Decision Making Through Knowledge Discovery from Data
- A major challenge facing management in developed countries is improving the performance of knowledge and service workers, i.e. the decision makers. In a developing country such a...
Herna L. Viktor, Heidi Arndt, Mauritz Oberholzer
ECIS
2000
13 years 5 months ago
Tailoring IT Education for Effective IT Professionals in a Third World Setting
Small group learning combined with innovative teaching methods were introduced at tertiary level to teach computer-related subjects. Teams wereconstituted according to Belbin'...
Isabella M. Venter, Renette J. Blignaut, Deon Stol...
ECIS
2000
13 years 5 months ago
Secure Access to Medical Data over the Internet
The concept of context-dependent access control has emerged during the last years: Information about the state of a process model of a working environment is combined with general ...
Ulrich Ultes-Nitsche, Stephanie Teufel
ECIS
2000
13 years 5 months ago
ERP Systems: Facilitating or Confounding Factors in Corporate Telecommunications Mergers
: This paper presents preliminary findings of an research project in which the research partners, academics and a telecommunication labour union, are attempting to understand, lear...
Duane P. Truex, Ojelanki K. Ngwenyama
ECIS
2000
13 years 5 months ago
The Electronic Patient Record as an Organisational Artefact
- The research effort on Electronic Patient Records (EPR's) has rapidly increased in the last decade. Much of this research focussed on standardisation and technical realizati...
Pieter J. Toussaint, Marc Berg
ECIS
2000
13 years 5 months ago
Managing Knowledge in Medium-Sized Software Companies
The software industry is an ideal case of information production with a high importance of knowledge and information management. This paper distinguishes information and knowledge...
Alexander Teubner, Michael Nietsch
ECIS
2000
13 years 5 months ago
Systems Development of Organizational Memory: A Literature Survey
Currently, there is no commonly accepted methodology for developing organizational memory systems (OM) that is comprehensive in the sense that it guides the development process fr...
Dov Te'eni, Hadas Weinberger