Research on Industry 4.0 was initiated in 2012. Since then, the term "Industry 4.0" has been widely used among researchers to further investigate the development of technologies in the related industry. Thus, the aim of this study is to analyze the scientific literature published in the field of Industry 4.0. Scopus database was utilized to collect all literature in Industry 4.0. Publish or Perish software was used to incorporate the obtained data, while VOSviewer was used for data visualization. SPSS and Microsoft Excel were employed for data analysis. The growth of publications, research productivity and citation analysis were presented using standard bibliometric analysis. Based on the search results, a total of 1256 documents were retrieved. The growth rate of literature in Industry 4.0 increased drastically year by year since 2012. Most of the articles were published in journals and conferences, mainly in English. Most of the research in Industry 4.0 was in the engineering field. Keywords of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) were the most keywords used and represent the main areas of research covered in Industry 4.0. Most of the research related to Industry 4.0 was conducted in Germany and multi-authored with a mean collaboration index of 3.65 authors per article. This study presents the evolution of the scientific literature in Industry 4.0 and identifies areas of current research interests and potential directions for future research.

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Abstract. Deployment of Information Technology/Information Systems (IT/IS) has been recognized as one of the potential means to supply information for timely business decision making. Despite growing importance of IT/IS in business, Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) embrace constant challenges to deploy IS effectively, and thus, hardly to optimize the IT/IS strategic values. In such situation, IS planning is getting paramount to promote more effective IT/IS management of the firms. This study reports IS planning practices of a manufacturing-based SME. The face to face interview has been carried out to explore IS planning activities in a chosen firm. The qualitative analysis suggests that the selected company did undergo the four phases of strategic IS planning process namely, planning, analysing, selection, and implementation. The owner act as the champion of the strategic IS planning process. Further, the owner and the employees plays an important role as a decision maker. Specifically, the owner decides mainly on acquiring a new technology related to the firm's core business process whereas the users responsible on the selection of relevant application (s) to be used in their respective departments. Apart from that, the owner also plays a role as a researcher for the new technology acquired whilst the users provide an input on the applications to be acquired. Background and Objective of StudyGreater reliance on Information Technology/Information Systems (IT/IS) on daily operations and strategic needs urges today's organisations to emphasise on the IS planning. Appropriate IS planning practice enables organisations to narrow the gap between IT/IS and the strategic objectives of the organisations. IS alignment then leads to a greater competitiveness and value derived from IS-related investment [1].Increased importance of IT/IS in organisation has attracted considerable research to understand the impact of IT/IS on firm performance. Specifically, IS planning emerges as one of the primary focuses as long as IT/IS deployment is concerned. IS planning refers to a process of specifying an organization's selection of computer-based applications and technologies that correspond to the organisations strategic objectives [2].

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