The Conference
The Enterprise Information Systems International Conference on Research and Practical Issues of EIS (CONFENIS)
is a primary international event of the IFIP TC8 Working Group 8.9.. This program provides an opportunity for
academicians and practitioners throughout the world to gather, exchange ideas, and present original research in
the field of enterprise information systems. Scientists and professionals are invited to address the current research
topics in the area or the research frontier at this unique international forum. The CONFENIS 2009 Conference is
sponsored mainly by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), IFIP TC8, and IFIP TC8 WG8.9
on Enterprise Information Systems, hosted by the John von Neumann Computer Society (NJSZT) and locally organized
by and the Community of Scientific and Educational Forum on Business Information Systems (SEFBIS) and the Szechenyi
Istvan University (SZE).
A Group of the
Participants after the opening ceremony
The CONFENIS'2009
Conference is over - Epilogue
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Gyor, 30-10-2009 |
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Distinguished Guests!
The CONFENIS 2009 is over.
The closing ceremony is to give a brief overview
about the work has been done during the previous
year, summarizing the results, and even to thank
all the participants playing different roles
before and during the conference.
....
the full
closing speech is downloadable .....
After expressing my warmest
acknowledge to all of the collaborators and
participants, I thank you for coming and I whish
you a pleasant arriving home. The CONFENIS 2009
conference is officially closed, and I have only
one nice task left, to hand the challenge trophy
of the conference over to the next organizer, to Rogerio Atem de
Carvalho,
the colleague from Brazil, and whish him a
successful conference in 2010 in Natal. See all
of you in Brazil next year!
Maria Raffai,
General Chair of the CONFENIS 2009 IPC |
Keynote Speakers
Paul Hawking
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Paul Hawking is one of the leading commentators
on ERP systems and specifically SAP solutions.
His knowledge is well respected in both industry
and academia and accordingly is often required
to assist companies with their ERP strategies.
He is a senior lecturer at the Victoria
University School of Management and Information
Systems, and SAP academic program director. He
has been a committee member of the SAP
Australian User Group for the past six years and
is responsible for knowledge transfer. He graduated
Diploma of Business Information Technology (Swinburne
Institute of Technology, 1992), Master of
Business Computing (Victoria University, 1996),
and he has doctorate degree in Business
Administration (Victoria University).
Paul Hawking is one Australia's best selling IT
authors having written 10 books that are sold
throughout the world. His areas of teaching and
research are ERP systems strategy and
implementation, and Business Intelligence. |
Gerhard Chroust
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Gerhard Chroust
joined the IBM Laboratory Vienna in 1966, were
he worked on the Formal Definition of PL/I
(1967/68), on compiler construction, on a PL/I
Compiler for the IBM 8100. 1983-90 he was member
of the development team for ADPS (Application
Development Project Support), responsible for
defining the Process Model. From 1992 to 2007 he
was full Professor of Systems Engineering at the
Kepler University Linz, Austria, initially at
the Institute for Systems Sciences and then head
of the Institute of Systems Engineering and
Automation. Since 2007 he is professor emeritus.
He is Secretary General of the International
Federation of Systems Research (IFSR), a former
president of the Austrian Society of Informatics and vice-president of the Austrian Society
for Cybernetic Studies. Current research and
teaching interests are focused on description,
implementation and certification of
socio-technical systems and on the enactment and
support of the necessary development processes.
Further research is devoted to cultural
differences and human factors in system
development, to system research and to component
bases software development. |
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Radhika Santhanam
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Radhika Santhanam is a Gatton
Endowed Research Professor in the Gatton College
of Business & Economics, at the University of
Kentucky. She has conducted extensive research
to understand and enhance user learning of new
information technologies. Recently, along with
her doctoral students and colleagues, she has
conducted several longitudinal studies on
Enterprise Information Systems, and proposed
training and learning approaches that can
facilitate their successful implementation.
Findings from her research have been published
in leading information system journals such as,
MIS Quarterly, Information Systems
Research, Journal of Management
Information Systems, Information and
Organization, Decision Support Systems,
and European Journal of Information Systems,
among others. She is an Associate Editor at
Information Systems Research and Decision
Support Systems, and on the editorial board
of Enterprise Information Systems.
Earlier, she was an Associate editor at
Management Information Systems Quarterly and
Computer and Operations Research. She was
the Program Co-chair for the 2005 Annual
Conference of the Association of Information
Systems |
Richard Hughes
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Richard Hughes is
Technical Director at BroadVision, a global
provider of personalized self-service web
applications. As a senior technical expert of
BroadVision, Mr Hughes is integral guiding
product development as well as the strategic
success of customers of BroadVision . During his
11 years at BroadVision, Richard has advised
major international companies such as
British Telecom, O2, Vodafone, DSG, ABN AMRO and
Ericsson on deployment of their eCommerce and
enterprise portal systems. latest solution of BroadVision is Clearvale, an Enterprise Social
Networking suite. Prior to joining BroadVision,
Mr Hughes managed the eCommerce web site at
Blackwell Online Bookshop. He has a BSc in
Computer Software Technology from the University
of Bath |
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Sandor Seres
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Sandor Seres is Technical Director at
CoDe, a global provider of Enterprise
Mobile Applications.
He has
Msc. in Engineering from the Technical
University in Budapest
and BSc in
Applied Mathematics from the Technical
University of Budapest. Sandor has more than 15
years of experience in implementing IT solutions
at customers around the world. (35+ countries)
This includes all aspects of solution design,
system integration e.g. customer interaction,
business/requirements specifications,
definitions of service offerings, selling of
systems and services, management of system
integration projects, turn-key solutions etc.
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