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Auflistung nach Autor:in "Jamous, Naoum"

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  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Corporate Environmental Management Information Systems (CEMIS) - Sustainability Reporting Tools for SMEs
    (EnviroInfo Dessau 2012, Part 2: Open Data and Industrial Ecological Management, 2012) Jamous, Naoum; Alwafaie, Rami; Albadawi Dahma, Miguel
    In recent years, companies have begun to concentrate on the topic of environment sustainability. They have tried different methods and software in order to reduce their businesses’ effect on the environment, like pollution and unsustainable use of natural resources. These measures contribute to the protection of the integrity of ecosystems and human health, ensuring the sustainable use of natural resources, and guaranteeing fair competition. This paper is a literature review focusing on meanings rather than facts, so it uses the deductive research method which depends mainly on the qualitative data analysis, and it is closer to the positivism research philosophy. Within the topic environmental management information system (EMIS), we will start this paper with a theoretical part highlighting the most used terms and concepts, and then we will analyse several sustainability reporting tools, providing a comparison among four different tools against the small to medium sized companies’ requirements.
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    Evaluation categorizes, technologies decision for a Composite Environmental Performance Indicators (LWC-EPI) solution
    (Innovations in Sharing Environmental Observations and Information, 2011) Jamous, Naoum; Kramer, Frederik; kassem, Gamal
    Rapid environmental changes have necessitated a closer and more critical review of current environmental policies. In light of a myopic tendency to focus on short- to medium-term objectives within organizations, environmental issues are usually not given full attention. In this regard, recommendation- or dashboard-like systems are useful to increase the awareness of management as to the impact of their decisions on the environment on a more frequent and cost-effective basis. However, the role of current environmental management information systems (EMIS) in providing organizations with the information enabling them to assess the current impact of their processes and operations on the environment has been given more prominence. Information technology is changing business in ever shortening cycles. Especially with the success of the Java platform, the standardization through the i386 hardware platform and last but not least the rivalry introduced by the Free, Libre and Open Source Software (F/LOSS) paradigm a sheer inconceivable amount of programming languages, integrated development environments, design patterns and programming frameworks have been disseminated. In this paper, we will start with a state of the art of the available tools support providing dashboard-type solutions to control and monitor the EPI’s in an organization, which may lead to reduce the gap between estimated values and current running values for environment on a more frequent basis than a mere yearly review. Furthermore, we will propose an evaluation categorizes to be used as a methodology to take the technologies decisions.
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    Green Logistics’ Tools as Corporate Environmental Management Information System (CEMIS)
    (EnviroInfo Dessau 2012, Part 2: Open Data and Industrial Ecological Management, 2012) Jamous, Naoum; Al Badawi Dahma, Samir; Isaac, Albert
    Global warming, climatic disasters and the depletion of the ozone layer illustrate the negative impact of economic growth on the ecological system and the societies that function within them. As a result, customers and many governments around the world are developing a more conscious and respectful attitude toward the environment, propelling environmental concerns to the forefront of many companies’ competitive strategies. The implementation of green practices into logistics systems is gaining worldwide importance. Corporate Environmental Management Information System (CEMIS) is the solution for companies to comply with environmental regulation by providing the necessary information to monitor and analyze environmental effects of business activities. In this paper, general information about CEMIS will be invoked accompanied by a focus on green logistics tools. The architecture and interface of each tool will be demonstrated.
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    Mining Ansätze zur Personalisierung von ERP-Systemen
    (INFORMATIK 2012, 2012) Kassem, Gamal; Jamous, Naoum; Turowski, Klaus
    Die Bearbeitung von Geschäftsvorfällen und komplexen Geschäftsprozessen durch moderne Betriebliche Anwendungssystemen erfordern i.d.R. von dem Mitarbeiter einen großen Erfahrungshintergrund. Für neue Mitarbeiter sind intensive Einarbeitungskurse und Schulungen notwendig. Solche Anwendungssysteme bieten dem Nutzer eine enorme Anzahl an Transaktionen mit vielfältigen Navigationsmöglichkeiten, interaktive Online-Dokumentation und Hilfe-Tools. Es wird dadurch Anpassung des Systems garantiert, so dass große Anteile der Aktivitäten der laufenden Geschäftsprozesse sowie mögliche zukünftige Geschäftsprozess-Änderungen durch das System unterstützt werden. Dadurch werden die Übersichtlichkeit des Systems und die intuitive Interaktion mit dem System erschwert. Die Personalisierung ist deswegen heute ein wesentlicher Bestandteil moderner Enterprise-Resource- Planning-Systeme (ERP). In diesem Beitrag werd Formen und Zwecke der Personalisierung präsentiert. Dabei werden Abgrenzungen von Personalisierungsformen in Betrieblichen Anwendungssystemen und E- Commerce-Anwendungen im Web-Bereich aufgezeigt. Darüber hinaus werden Haupt-Mechanismen und -Ansätze zur Realisierung von Personalisierungskonzepten im Bereich der Betrieblichen Anwendungssysteme am Beispiel von SAP-ERP beleuchtet. Auf Basis des individuellen Verhaltens der Nutzer wird ein Konzeptuelles Modell zur impliziten Personalisierung im Bereich von betrieblichen Anwendungssystemen vorgestellt. Dabei dient das SAP-Produkt SAP-ERP als Beispiel.
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    Proposed Light-Weigth Composite Environmental Performance Indicators (LWC-EPI) Mode
    (Integration of Environmental Information in Europe, 2010) Jamous, Naoum; Kassem , Gamal; Gómez, Jorge Marx; Dumke , Reiner
    Rapid environmental changes have necessitated a closer and more critical review of current environmental policies. Moreover, the role of current environmental management information systems (EMIS) in providing organisations with the information enabling them to assess the current impact of their processes and operations on the environment has been given more prominence. With organisations assessed against the norm of regulations followed, meeting them is essential to their business continuity. However, in light of a myopic tendency to focus on short- to mediumterm objectives within organisations, environmental issues are usually not given full attention. In this regard, recommendation- or dashboard-like systems are useful to increase the awareness of management as to the impact of their decisions on the environment on a more frequent and cost-effective basis. This said much research remains to be done in light of the surprisingly vague environmental indicators in existence and our research aims to develop these measures further. Focusing on the growing importance and needs of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for EMISs, and taking into consideration alternative but relatively expensive available software solutions, this paper sheds light on the information provision role of EMISs as to the impact of SMEs operations on the environment. It further tries to identify areas of improvement in the organisations’ endeavor to meet acceptable and nonstifling regulations. Furthermore, the paper makes a first attempt in proposing a model for an easy Light-Weight Composite EPI tool. Our main objective is to provide dashboard-type solutions to control and monitor the EPI’s in an organisation, which may lead to reduce the gap between estimated values and current running values for environment on a more frequent basis than a mere yearly review. Among the measures that can be considered, our focus is on the Co2 emission or disposal of wasted material, detrimental to the environment. Based on the EPIs, company strategies can be better aligned to deploy corrective actions aimed at reducing the above mentioned emissions, including for example up-to-date data about greenhouse gas (referred as to GHG, hereafter) on dashboard-like systems which can be easily monitored and controlled.
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    SME and Green-IT – A decision model
    (Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Environmental Informatics - Informatics for Environmental Protection, Sustainable Development and Risk Management, 2013) Kramer, Frederik; Jamous, Naoum
    Because of the enduring warnings of experts and the continuous impact of the climate change, sustainability has become a major concern of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs). The information technology sector offers a variety of products that address sustainability. These range from environmental management information systems (EMIS) to hardware (e.g. energy efficient CPUs) as well as software components (e.g. hyper-visors). As "sustainability" and especially the buzz- in almost every IT marketing campaign, a useful evaluation becomes even harder. Due to their special constraints in terms of size, focus, skills, capital, and applied decision methods, SMEs struggle even harder than large enterprise to purposefully evaluate complex technologies. This article provides a structured evaluation model of IT-based sustainability technologies for SMEs. The model is based on multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) and comprises different decision categories such as flexibility, risk, strategy, and cost / benefits as well as respective subcategories (e.g. implementation of a sustainability strategy) that we found to be important in the context of IT, SMEs, and sustainability.
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    Sustainability data integration; A prototypical implementation of a light-weight information system component
    (EnviroInfo Dessau 2012, Part 2: Open Data and Industrial Ecological Management, 2012) Jamous, Naoum; Kramer, Frederik; Turowski, Klaus; Arndt, Hans-Knud
    The environment matters. At least this is the minimum denominator the members of the World Climate Conference have been finally agreeing upon. Unfortunately a successor of the Kyoto Protocol has not yet been ratified. Induced by recent natural catastrophes an increasing public awareness of sustainability concerns became more visible. In order to fulfil the growing customers demand for greener products companies have to act and adopt new technology to fill this information gap. The information technology adoption rate has been visibly increasing during the last decade. The product and service lifecycle however is still narrowly focused on classical product or service attributes such as price, quality and availability. Hardly any of the current information systems for the midsize segment integrates environmental data. Within the frame of this paper a “business trip use case” is taken as an example to show how sustainability data can be integrated into the classical procurement process by using a light-weight and Open Source based Portlet platform technology. The example has been conducted as part of the research within the frame of the EU-project “Solution and Services Engineering for Measuring, Monitoring, and Management of Organizations’ Environmental Performance Indicators” (OEPI).
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    Towards a classification framework for very large business applications
    (INFORMATIK 2012, 2012) Dreschel, Dirk; Jamous, Naoum; Kassem, Gamal; Kramer, Frederik; Kurbjuhn, Bastian; Schrödl, Holger; Splieth, Mathias; Turowski, Klaus
    Classification of business application has significant effects for industry practice as well as for applied research. A correct classification of a business application leads to a better knowledge of the relevant characteristics and significantly helps in estimating several effects while planning, developing and maintaining the application. This paper provides a comprehensive classification framework for the quite new research area of Very Large Business Application (VLBA). The framework has been constructed by using the morphological method. From this classification framework, four different types of VLBA have been identified by their distinct characteristics. This result helps practitioners as well as scholars to gain a deeper and more distinct understanding of the relevant factors of VLBA.