TY - CHAP A1 - Rauff, Stefanie A1 - Hufgard, Andreas A1 - Schulz, Johannes T1 - Reverse Business Innovations - Evaluation of relevant new release functions for enterprise systems T2 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Information Systems Post-Implementation and Change Management N2 - With each new release, enterprise software vendors deliver user organizations a myriad of new functions that can add business value. Organizations are then faced with assessing which of the new functions drive value for them and which do not and so, how much they will benefit from an upgrade. The authors have developed a model for decision support. Various aspects of an upgrade can be assessed with the aid of software tools, such as analyses and evaluations of new functionality with respect to relevance, benefits, profitability, strategic goals and impact. In this article, we will present the portion of this model that can determine which functionality is relevant for an organization and to what extent. Our decision support model applies “reverse” system usage to identify which enterprise system functions are currently being used and which not. Based on usage data and pattern matching, we can determine which new functions add value for organizations. This helps businesses more easily determine which new functions are relevant to them and helps ensure that they continue to see a return on their often very expensive IT and IS investments far into the future. KW - Betriebliches Informationssystem Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-989-8704-11-5 SP - 327 EP - 332 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hufgard, Andreas A1 - Schulz, Johannes T1 - User activities in business processes - A system-based analysis T2 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Information Systems Post-Implementation and Change Management N2 - Empirical data based on actual system use is in very short supply. How many transactions do ERP system users execute? In which business processes do most users still play an active role? Answers to these questions are provided in the analysis of 77 user organizations, the subject of this publication. For the first time, these questions can be answered objectively, based on data collected with system-based analyses of live post-implementation SAP systems. The analyses examined activities of over 253,000 users and the data was extracted using RBE Plus, a reverse business engineering tool. Areas of intense usage and user types have been identified objectively, and the findings pinpoint specific sub-processes that reveal potential for improvement. KW - Prozessorganisation Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-989-8704-11-5 SP - 215 EP - 222 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hufgard, Andreas A1 - Schulz, Johannes T1 - User activities in business processes - A system-based analysis of specialist users JF - IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems N2 - Empirical data based on actual system use is in very short supply. How many transactions do ERP system users execute? In which business processes do most users still play an active role? Answers to these questions are provided in the analysis of 77 user organizations, the subject of this publication. For the first time, these questions can be answered objectively, based on data collected with system-based analyses of live post-implementation SAP systems. The analyses examined activities of over 253,000 users and the data was extracted using RBE Plus, a reverse business engineering tool. Areas of intense usage and user types have been identified objectively, and the findings pinpoint specific sub-processes that reveal potential for improvement. KW - Prozessorganisation Y1 - 2014 VL - 9(2014) IS - 2 SP - 159 EP - 173 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hufgard, Andreas A1 - Schulz, Johannes T1 - Is purchasing more efficient in the automotive industry? Usage-based comparison of business processes in purchasing as exemplified by SAP ERP T2 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information Systems Post-Implementation and Change Management N2 - In business IT, empirical data is very rarely in the form of corporate usage data from system analyses. This article introduces 105 systems that have been analyzed in-depth, and whose data deliver empirical conclusions about usage and the level of maturity of business processes in purchasing, and quantify the primary types of activities users are involved in. The data was gathered from usage analyses of SAP systems via RBE Plus, a reverse business engineering tool. It is based on the activities of more than 270,000 users in organizations in Europe and the USA. The findings offer enterprises a standard of comparison and reveal potential for improvement in sub-processes. KW - SAP ERP KW - Prozesskette KW - Einkauf Y1 - 2015 SN - 978-989-8533-42-5 SP - 143 EP - 151 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hufgard, Andreas A1 - Schulz, Johannes T1 - Usage analysis in SAP ERP-Systems for measurement of business maturity - exemplified in purchasing JF - IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems KW - SAP ERP Y1 - 2016 VL - 2016 (11) IS - 1 SP - 63 EP - 80 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Hufgard, Andreas A1 - Rauff, Stefanie A1 - Zinow, Rainer T1 - SAP Cloud - Szenarien, Lösungen, Technologie N2 - Von Mittelstandslösungen wie SAP Business One bis zu gezielten Anwendungen wie Simple Finance oder SuccessFactors – dieses Buch stellt Ihnen alle Cloud-Lösungen aus der SAP-Welt ausführlich vor. Erfahren Sie, was die einzelnen Lösungen bieten und was sie kosten. Lesen Sie nach, wie Sie die Systeme einsetzen und wie SAP für die Sicherheit Ihrer Unternehmensdaten sorgt. Ob für Finanzen, im Vertrieb, Marketing oder Personalabteilung: Loten Sie die Möglichkeiten für Ihr Unternehmen aus! KW - SAP KW - Cloud Computing Y1 - 2015 SN - 978-3-8362-3637-9 PB - SAP Press CY - Bonn ER -