<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Improving organization means on the one hand searching for adequate product (service) matched to the market, on the other hand shaping the ability to react on risks caused by that activity. The second should consist of identifying and estimating types of risk, and consequently creating solutions securing from possible forms of it's realization (disturbances), following rules of rational choice of security measures as seen in their relation to costs and effectiveness. As to types of risks from which the organization is not secure, the procedure left is to create plans for securing continuity of operations which ensure return to previous state in due course and ensuring replacement operations for the transitory period. Activities of creating the security measures and continuity solutions should be organized as constantly developing and perfecting and as such they need formal place in organizational structure and rules of management.</abstract>

Business Continuity

<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">The aim of this elaboration is to present selected methodology, application and design issues connected with the process of complex enterprise informatization in the implementation process of an IT system. Role of the integration process in economic information processing and directions of integration activities in the scope of the IT systems of the enterprise are presented in the first part of this elaboration. Afterwards, technical features of an integrated IT system are characterized. Thesis that particular systems are comparable in the scope of functionality of the basic areas of activity of the enterprise, such as: accounting, material and stock planning, sales and invoicing, human resources, wages, can be formulated on the basis of the national portfolio of ERP (Enterprise Recourses Planning) packages. On the other hand, the cost of license purchase as well as the implementation activities, reaches the level from tens of thousands to few million PLN. Differences in the levels of investments are determined with: scope and complexity of the endeavor, functionality and system architecture as well as the cost of extension and modification of provided program modules.</abstract>

Computer Integrated Enterprise in the MRP/ERP Software Implementation

<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">An issue of building a tool orientated to the support of selection process of decision support system (DSS) for the sector of small and medium enterprises is presented in the article. A group method of data handling (GMDH) whose application allows to objectives a search process of required DSS, with assumed costs and other existing resource limitations, is proposed for this purpose. The article is devoted to a problem of GMDH adjustment to solving the tasks related to the selection of a required system from among the information systems of DSS class, according to the criteria determined by a future user of this system. The GMDH takes into account among other things such assumptions as: a precise description of dependences between input and output data in a specified time horizon, independence of the user's knowledge (the values of observed data from the past registered in the base are the input data) and minimization of modelling errors (the selection of solutions takes place by means of a selected evaluation rule of quality estimation).</abstract>

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Zielona Góra, 65-417 Zielona Góra, Poland

Faculty of Management, Warsaw University of Technology, 02-524 Warszawa, Poland

The Multicriteria Selection Methodology of the Decision Support System

<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">This paper looks at the issue of IT systems migration as well as problems related to security policy in migration processes. Problem of migration is viewed in a broad context of changes which occur during construction or modernization of an IT system. Migration projects were classified against the background of wide spectrum of informatization strategy issues and sources of threats to information security were pointed out. Also, guidelines for improvement of security in migration process were presented.</abstract>

It Systems Security Management in Migration Process

<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">In the time of rapid development of Internet technologies and changing competitive environment, one of the most significant ways of creation of the e-commerce endeavor value is the increase of the incoming traffic of the internet website and the level of its conversion into business goals. Undertaking activities form the scope of internet marketing and increase of the usability and accessibility of websites are supporting this cause. However, this issues being broadly described in the literature they still have limited applications in business practice. The article presents the most important factors influencing the scope and characteristics of internet traffic that depends on the internet website owners. Issues are illustrates with research of listed factors that were performed on selected e-commerce systems from the B2C sector in Poland.</abstract>

Visibility, Usability and Accessibility of Polish E-Commerce Websites From the B2C Sector

<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">The multi-criteria assessment methodology of implementation effectiveness of information systems illustrated by an example of decision support system (DSS) realized in w information technologies is presented in the article. The assessment of DSS under consideration takes place using the knowledge recorded in the form of fuzzy neural network, collected in an enterprise, on the basis of earlier realized implementations of other information systems. A model of retrieved DSS is expressed by means of a set of functionalities serving business processes of the enterprise under consideration. A model of implementation undertaking determined by means of a set of preparatory actions for the implementation and a set of directly implementation and exploitation actions is built for the retrieved DSS as well. Furthermore, a vector determining a current and planned implementation state of a set of DSS functionalities in the enterprise at time moments, before and after the commencement of planned implementation of the retrieved DSS is built. A concept of trapezoidal fuzzy numbers is used in building DSS models. An adjustment of fuzzy parameters of DSS models takes place by means of geometrical method of maximum absolute error points. A presented methodology enables to execute a multi-criteria effectiveness assessment of planned undertaking in relation to subjective criteria established by the enterprise (preferred time, cost and values of priority indexes). Additionally, the knowledge collected on the basis of earlier realized implementations of information systems and applied imprecise description of parameters taking into account errors made in their estimation in the past is used.</abstract>

Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Zielona Góra, 65-417 Zielona Góra, Poland

The Multicriteria Assessment Methodology of the Decision Support System Implementation Effectiveness

<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">The trend observed in the past few years, aiming at raising the level of energy safety both in Poland and in the world, has changed irreversibly the management specificity in the electrical energy industry. Traditional methods of management in this sector began to be insufficient in relation to the present quickly changing reality. The article presents a concept of the management method preventing a crisis situation in an electrical energy utility - a baseload power plant for the risks: a power unit overloading resulting in its disorderly close-down, a lack of technical-economic data transmission and a modification of business data.</abstract>

Industrial Electric Power Laboratory, Practical Training Centre, ul. Sportowa 13, 26-670 Pionki

Faculty of Management, Warsaw University of Technology, ul. Narbutta 85, 02-524 Warsaw

The Management Method Preventing a Crisis Situation in an Electrical Energy Utility

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