Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is an important innovation, affecting the business world by generating improvements both tangible and intangible in large companies and small and medium enterprises (SME). This study focuses on the determinants of success and the advantages of the adoption of this technology. To address these points, a comprehensive literature survey was carried out in order to formulate an original research model for ERP success evaluation and provide a prospect for IT infrastructure and integration. The model, thus suggested and taken within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) context, examines in a systematic approach the relation between the ERP acceptance determinants, the effects of the process of ERP systems diffusion, and the impacts expected on organizational performance. Obtained results underline two key determinants of ERP projects success: First, the preponderance of information control and the improvement in the use of competences. The second factor is the quality of team projects, the definition of team’s mission, training, business processes reengineering, user acceptance, top management support and the selection of the ERP solution.

In the last few years, business on the Internet become more and more significance. On the other hand new development of Internet-based technologies like cloud computing "as a service" is changed rapidly. The business models have to be continually adapted and to be changed to meet the value exchange requirements related to these newest technologies. Therefore, this paper aims to provide significant classifying of the business models which leading enterprises in the market which can be offered directly or indirectly, with different type of offers, such as: (1) Infrastructure as a service (2) Platform as a service (3) Software as a service for characterizing the maturity of "as a services" business model.

The importance of business models has increased significantly in the last decade, especially in the Internet. The cause of this increase is the effect of Internet and the associated applications and their business processes regarding to the business model. These effects include, for example, the emerging technical and economic aspects of a business model on the Internet, the support and transformation of traditional business models, and the arise of new business ideas based on that technology. One of these new ideas is: how distributed Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems or federated ERP (FERP) systems as web services (WSs) can cover the increasing demands of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) for business software covered.This paper aims to provide a derived developing approach with three phases that will lead to three suitable concepts that identify suitable business model for FERP System with different scenarios of value exchanging. The results of this work will be conceptual models that describe the character, role and revenue models that identify FERP exchanging business model.

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As a result of the high priority given by universities in Saudi Arabia to the implementation of quality systems and achieve international and local academic accreditation, especially NCAAA, as well as, academic accreditation standards require the provision of a set of data, documents, reports and evidence distributed among the various departments of the university (academic and non-academic), which must be provided periodically and annually. These universities need to provide an integrated system between these departments to cover the requirements of quality and academic accreditation. On the other hand, there are ERP systems that suit the organizational environment of the university, but these systems did not implement a module to cover quality assurance requirements or academic accreditation. This study proposed a framework includes ERP module for quality requirements and academic accreditation to facilitate the collection of required data from various sources within the university and helps to provide the necessary reports and statistics, where the module organizes the necessary processes for quality and accreditation by providing a special database and through linking with the other subsystems at the university.