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BIS 2015: Business Information Systems pp 321–333Cite as

EPOs, an Early Warning System for Post-merger IS Integration

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Our approach allows for identifying and assessing indicators that signal the risk of failure in post-merger integration of information systems with the help of an early warning system. The applied research method is Design Science Research complemented by a real case study. The main artifact is the EPOs prototype we developed, applying semantic technologies, namely an ontology and an inference engine, for the automatic identification, validation and quantification of risk indicators. If a certain threshold is reached, a warning message is triggered including the ponderosity of the risk to fail. We evaluated our approach based on two real world scenarios.

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  1. Hochschule Für Wirtschaft FHNW, 4600, Olten, Switzerland

    Erol Unkan & Barbara Thönssen

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Unkan, E., Thönssen, B. (2015). EPOs, an Early Warning System for Post-merger IS Integration. In: Abramowicz, W. (eds) Business Information Systems. BIS 2015. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 208. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19027-3_26

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