Fitting Software to the Organization: Reducing Time to Value for New Software Systems

Author

Erville, Ian Som

Author_Institution

St. Andrews Univ., St. Andrews

fYear

2008

fDate

26-28 March 2008

Firstpage

51

Lastpage

51

Abstract

Most large and medium-sized organizations have shifted the focus of some or all of their organizational software development from tailored software, developed in object-oriented programming languages, to the use of configurable off-the-shelf packages or ERP systems. These systems offer a range of built-in functionality that can be adapted to specific requirements and offer opportunities for rapid system deployment and faster ´time-to-value´, where the ´time-to-value´ is the time after deployment when the system is fully operational and delivering value to the company.

Keywords

enterprise resource planning; organisational aspects; software engineering; software packages; ERP systems; built-in functionality; configurable off-the-shelf packages; large-sized organizations; medium-sized organizations; organizational software development; rapid system deployment; socio-technical systems engineering; software engineering; software fitting; Australia; Computer science; Engineering management; Enterprise resource planning; Object oriented programming; Sociotechnical systems; Software engineering; Software packages; Software systems; Systems engineering and theory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering, 2008. ASWEC 2008. 19th Australian Conference on

Conference_Location

Perth, WA

ISSN

1530-0803

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3100-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASWEC.2008.4483190

Filename

4483190