Enterprise resource planning systems promise to integrate a wide array of business functions within an organization, everything from inventory control, to sales, production, purchasing, finance, human resources, and more. It all sounds pretty straightforward, and it would be, if all companies followed the same straightforward path. Fortunately, ERP systems have become far more flexible and […]
April 2000 - Vol. 43 No. 4
Features
Bank mergers dominated 1998; 1999 was the year of the telecommunications merger. And this could be the year of Internet mergers. Experts expect the record-setting $166 billion merger of AOL and Time Warner may be the beginning of a wave of Net mergers and acquisitions. Analyst Jim Breyer of Accel Partners, Palo Alto, says the […]
Anne Adams and Martina Angela Sasse, in their article about password selection, "Users Are Not the Enemy" (Dec. 1999, p. 41), don't mention how to compose passwords that are both easy to remember and difficult to crack.
The ACM Fellows Program was established by Council in 1993 to recognize and honor outstanding ACM members for their achievements in computer science and information technology and for their significant contributions to the mission of the ACM. The ACM Fellows serve as distinguished colleagues to whom the ACM and its members look for guidance and […]
From Washington: A Patchwork of Legislation and Regulation
Corporations tout consumerism against citizenship.
Staying Connected: Surfing the Turf
For a medium that holds anonymity in high regard, privacy is fast eroding.
Enterprise Resource Planning: Introduction
Enterprise resource planning systems are configurable information systems packages that integrate information and information-based processes within and across functional areas in an organization. The current generation of ERP systems also provides reference models or process templates that claim to embody the current best business practices. Integration has been the Holy Grail of MIS since the […]
Enterprise Resource Planning: ERP Adoption By European Midsize Companies
Searching for ERP systems offering a perfect fit.
Enterprise Resource Planning: The Role of the CIO and IT Function in ERP
Are some organizational decision-makers blind to the benefits of ERP?
Enterprise Resource Planning: Integrating ERP in the Business School Curriculum
Implementing ERP into business education is as challenging as it is rewarding—and necessary.
Enterprise Resource Planning: Multisite ERP Implementations
The meanings of "enterprise" and "site" vary depending on unique organizational circumstances.
Enterprise Resource Planning: Cultural Fits and Misfits: Is ERP a Universal Solution?
The universality of embedded business models of "industry best practices" is considered from an Asian perspective.
Enterprise Resource Planning: ERP System Migrations
A provider's versus a customer's perspective.
Enterprise Resource Planning: Making ERP a Success
Using business process models to achieve positive results.
Enterprise Resource Planning: Componentizing the Enterprise Application Packages
Tomorrow's customers will demand the ability to buy, reuse, and build their competitive-edge solutions: Can the package vendors adapt in time?
Embodied Conversational Interface Agents
More than another friendly face, Rea knows how to have a conversation with living, breathing human users with a wink, a nod, and a sidelong glance.
Only the most advanced parallel computers are fast enough to produce high-quality ocean simulations and accurate global climate predictions of temperature and precipitation.
The Ethics of Safety-Critical Systems
There are many practices that should be avoided in order to enhance the safety features of software systems.
Intrusion Detection Systems and Multisensor Data Fusion
Creating a cyberspace situational awareness environment will take more sophisticated tools and network sensors.
Technical Opinion: Deconstructing the ‘Any’ Key
Virtually all real programmers are insensitive. Not personal insensitivity, but technical insensitivity, the kind that results from viewing a problem solely from one's own perspective.
Data Mining and Rough Set Theory
This is in response to "Myths about Rough Set Theory" (Nov. 1998, p. 102) by W.W. Koczkodaj, M. Orlowski, and V.W. Marek. The authors raise some important issues and express some legitimate concerns. We are surprised they list rough set theory as the only discipline in which there are two of the cited problems—the discipline […]
Abstract Class Hierarchies, Factories, and Stable Designs
Much of the debate about the general aptness of class hierarchies is rooted in the different objectives taxonomists and implementers are thought to pursue. Designers of conceptual hierarchies tend to embrace Aristotle’s principle of genus et differentiae leading to a taxonomic hierarchy of categories or types [7], while those with implementation in mind focus on […]
Inside Risks: Denial-of-Service Attacks
A Funny Thing Happened on my Way to the (Risks) Forum this month. I had planned to write a column on the ever-burgeoning risks of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks relating to the Internet, private networks, computer systems, cable modems, and DSL (for which spoofing is a serious risk), and the critical infrastructures that we considered here […]
