Emergence as Competitive Advantage - Engineering Tomorrow’s Enterprise Software Systems

S. Frischbier, M. Gesmann, D. Mayer, A. Roth, C. Webel

2012

Abstract

Companies rely heavily on complex software systems and tightly integrated supply-chains to serve their customers in increasingly fast changing markets. To gain competitive advantage in such a setting, companies must adapt their processes, products and inter-organizational relationships quickly to changing environments. In the future, enterprise software systems must be explicitly designed for flexibly switching intensive inter-organizational relationships and for rapidly implementing changes in requirements or context while retaining existing functionality and user acceptance. In this position paper we introduce the notion of emergence in enterprise software systems as a guiding principle. Emergent Enterprise Software Systems (EESS) will be capable of reacting to changes in the environment by adapting their behavior and exposing new functionality. The consequent challenges we face when designing, building and operating EESS are discussed.

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in Harvard Style

Frischbier S., Gesmann M., Mayer D., Roth A. and Webel C. (2012). Emergence as Competitive Advantage - Engineering Tomorrow’s Enterprise Software Systems . In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8565-12-9, pages 181-186. DOI: 10.5220/0003970501810186


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis12,
author={S. Frischbier and M. Gesmann and D. Mayer and A. Roth and C. Webel},
title={Emergence as Competitive Advantage - Engineering Tomorrow’s Enterprise Software Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2012},
pages={181-186},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003970501810186},
isbn={978-989-8565-12-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - Emergence as Competitive Advantage - Engineering Tomorrow’s Enterprise Software Systems
SN - 978-989-8565-12-9
AU - Frischbier S.
AU - Gesmann M.
AU - Mayer D.
AU - Roth A.
AU - Webel C.
PY - 2012
SP - 181
EP - 186
DO - 10.5220/0003970501810186