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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">CALL FOR PAPERS - 18th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Minitrack "Advancing Enterprise Resource Planning Through Technology"</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">August 9-12, 2012, Seattle, WA, USA</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">AMCIS-Website:<u>
</u></span><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue;mso-fareast-language:DE"><a href="http://www.amcis2012.aisnet.org/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:blue">http://www.amcis2012.aisnet.org/</span></a></span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">**********************************************************</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have evolved from large monolithic systems to more and more fragmented systems distributing
just about any aspect of a system: functions, processes, data, hardware and infrastructure. This change has gone hand in hand with the incorporation of more and more business functionality into ERP. Starting from material requirements planning (MRP) and manufacturing
resource planning (MRP II), the financial and human resources functions as well as executive information systems and eventually long-term strategic planning support for senior management have been included. These developments have made an ERP system "the"
core information system of an organization – and the technological backbone that other information systems need to collaborate with. ERP related functionality such as supply chain management (SCM), customer relationship management (CRM) and supplier relationship
management (SRM) is either integrated, embedded or closely coupled with an ERP system.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Software, hardware and networking technology has enabled the increased importance of ERP systems, but it also posed technological and managerial challenges.
In contrast to the early ERP monoliths, we nowadays have distributed architectures – both conventional in-house architectures such as client-server and service oriented architectures (SOA) as well as externally hosted architectures used by application-service-providing
(ASP) and software-on-demand solutions. With the appearance of mobile commerce, software-as-a-service (SaaS) approaches and cloud computing, additional challenges have emerged.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Technologies such as radio frequency identification (RFID) have opened up new opportunities for an organization to act and react
in real-time. RFID, smart items and the "Internet of things" impose new requirements on ERP systems, such as being capable of context-aware information processing.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">For the new technologies to be successfully implemented, security issues need to be resolved and a satisfactory level of trust in the technologies has to be
created. Organizations seem to be hesitant about having their mission-critical business processes run somewhere out in a "cloud" and maintaining their core business data in a nirvana. Neverthelsee, cloud computing is rapidly gaining pace.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">In the past, the vendors of software-on-demand solutions have not been able to generate significant revenue from this type of solution. This is about to change,
as cloud computing is penetrating every branch of business information processing.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">The rationale of this minitrack is exploration of new technologies that can further enhance enterprise resource planning. We invite papers that pursue a constructionist
approach to information systems development, following an engineering-like or design-science research style. Papers presenting the development of prototypes as a proof of concept are welcome. Technology-oriented papers should give consideration to the business
value of the proposed approaches or solutions.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Suggested Topics</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Architectures for ERP and related business information systems</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">ERP systems based on service oriented architectures (SOA)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for ERP and related areas</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">·</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Orchestrating an ERP system from web services/enterprise services</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">ERP on demand for small and medium-size enterprises</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Federated ERP systems, standardization and collaboration issues</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">ERP and cloud computing</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Impact of virtualization and infrastructure-as-a-service on ERP</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">·</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Integrating RFID solutions with ERP</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Impact of the "Internet of things" on future ERP systems</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Integrating legacy ERP systems with new components using state-of-the-art technologies</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Mobile ERP and related areas such as mobile SCM, mobile CRM and mobile SRM
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</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Security issues and trust in new technologies for enterprise resource planning</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Paper Submissions</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Deadline for submission: March 1, 2012</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Minitrack Co-chairs</span></b><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Karl E. Kurbel, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Grosse Scharrnstr. 59, D-15230 Frankfurt (Oder), Germany; e-mail:
</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><a href="mailto:kurbel.bi@europa-uni.de" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">kurbel.bi@europa-uni.de</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Jorge C. Marx Gomez, Carl von Ossietzky University, Ammerlaender Heerstr. 114-118, D-26129 Oldenburg, Germany; e-mail:
</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><a href="mailto:jorge.marx.gomez@uni-oldenburg.de" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">jorge.marx.gomez@uni-oldenburg.de</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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