on the producer sites to the actual installation and maintenance of the application on consumer computers. This article set up grounds for enterprise software deployment which is the large-scale deployment of complex applications in large companies.

, achieving modularity across MESS is essential. In this paper, we describe by way of an example application, some of the common problems encountered while delivering & managing enterprise software. We demonstrate that one of the root causes for these is inadequate support for modularity at the physical

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The present thesis is concerned with enterprise software systems of companies in the Swedish electricity industry, an industry that for the past few years has been exposed to a fairly tumultuous change process as a consequence of legislative reforms. Previously, the business operations of electric

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the enterprise software vendor for providing the dataset and for many useful discussions. Address for

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