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• ADEPT: An Agent-Based Approach To Business Process Management

  BNET - 2006-11-22

  Successful companies organise and run their business activities in an efficient manner. Core activities are completed on time and within specified resource constraints. However to stay competitive in today's markets, companies need to continually improve their efficiency - business activities need to be completed more quickly, to higher quality and...

  Tags: Business Process, Business Activity, BPM, Agent, University Of London, Core Activity, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Real Estate, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Software

• Using Automed for Data Warehousing

  BNET - 2003-04-07

  A data warehouse consists of a set of materialized views defined over a number of data source, collects copies of data from remote, distributed, autonomous and heterogeneous data sources into a central repository to enable analysis and mining of the integrated information. Data Warehousing and On-Line Analytical Processing OLAP are...

  Tags: Data Source, Data Warehouse, University Of London, Business Intelligence, Storage, Data Mining, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware

• Narrating an Organizational Matter of Fact: Negotiating With Enterprise Resource Planning Technology to Achieve Order Within a Traditional Academic Administration

  BNET - 2002-12-05

  This report draws upon social science contributions related to the study of organizations in order to understand how working information systems are created. Its main concern is the process of negotiating through IT-enabled change as actors work to design, implement, install, and use a standard software package in their daily...

  Tags: Administration, ERP, University Of London, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Management

• Back to the Future: From Knowledge Management to Data Management

  BNET - 2001-06-27

  This paper argues for a return to fundamentals as one enters the new millennium. It argues that the field of Information Systems should no longer be distracted from its natural locus of concern and competence, or claim more than it can actually achieve. More specifically, and as a case in...

  Tags: Information System, Knowledge, University Of London, Knowledge Management, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management

• Enterprise Resource Planning and Knowledge Management Systems: Synergetic Solutions

  BNET - 2001-06-01

  This paper considers the complementary implementation of ERP and KM systems in a multinational organization. In particular it considers how, in tandem, these systems can aid organizational efficiency and flexibility. In so doing, it provides a set of distinguishing characteristics of the two systems and identifies implications for both theory...

  Tags: Knowledge Management System, ERP, University Of London, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Knowledge Management, Enterprise Software, Software