Information Management
Fields of research
Very Large Business Applications (VLBA) are defined as Enterprise-wide IS and beyond. They support the execution of business processes along the value chain and are not limited to the borderlines of a company. Examples of VLBA are ERP systems, corporate environmental management information systems, systems for computer integrated manufacturing and inter-organizational systems like CRM or SCM systems. From a technical perspective this systems are distributed, federated and integrated. The implementations are based on architectural concepts and sophisticated technologies like for example service oriented architectures (SOA), component frameworks, p2p-networks, grid-architectures and mediators.
- Models and concepts of VLBA
- Reference models
- Modeling methods/languages
- Transnational and inter-organizational approaches
- Standardization
- Interoperability
- Architectures
- SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture)
- EAI (Enterprise Application Integration)
- Mediators
- Peer-to-peer
- Grid Architectures
- Development methods
- System landscape engineering
- Project management for VLBA
- Component-orientation
- Integration Engineering
- Life Cycle Management of VLBA
- System Roll out
- Deployment
- Operating
- Technologies
- Semantics, Ontologies
- Semantic Web
- Web Services
- Agents
- Application Server
- Middleware
- Off-the-shelf software
- Hard- and Software Infrastructure
- Case studies
- Project reports
- Industrial solutions
- Outsourcing strategies
- ASP (Application Service Providing)
- Application Management
- Application Hosting
- Web Service Providing
- SLA (Service Level Agreements)
- Security
- IS in Inter-company Networks
- Strategic planning of VLBA
- Content and functionality of VLBA
- Open Source
