Track: Organizational Systems and Technology
Minitrack: Enterprise System Integration: Issues and Answers

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are becoming mature infrastructure in many organizations. Many firms are looking beyond the internal business processes of their company and extending their information systems to include systems in other organizations. Linking these systems together is the objective of the emerging field of Enterprise Integration through technologies such as Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and more recently Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). This mini-track seeks to explore issues, both academic and organizational, surrounding the integration of Enterprise Systems and linking ERP systems to other systems via EAI or SOA.

Accepted papers to this mini-track will also be considered for a special issue of the Journal of Enterprise Information Management.

Topics and research areas include, but are not limited to:
* Implementation issues and concerns
* Support (on-going and initial start-up) issues
* Training and retention of qualified staff
* Upgrade and versioning issues
* Extending the ERP system beyond the organizational boundaries
* EAI/SOA implementation benefits, barriers and costs, methodologies, standards and issues
* Tailoring ERP to meet diverse corporate needs.
* Benefit and cost management of integrated enterprise systems
* Worlds best practices for integrated business
* Measuring ERP, SOA and EAI performance and evaluating costs and benefits
* Impact of Academic Alliances in ERP/EAI technologies on students and businesses that hire these students

Co-chairs:
Gail Corbitt (Primary Contact)
California State University Chico
AMIS Dept. 0011 College of Business Chico, CA 95929-0011, USA
Phone: +1-530-898-6463
Email: gcorbitt@csuchico.edu

Marinos Themistocleous
Department of Information Systems and Computing
Brunel University (UK)
Email: marinos.themistocleous@brunel.ac.uk

Zahir Irani
Department of Information Systems and Computing
Brunel University (UK)
Email: zahir.irani@brunel.ac.uk