Samuli Pekkola, PhD, is Professor of information systems at Tampere University of Technology and Adjunct professor at University of Oulu. He has worked as visiting associate professor in University of Agder, and held several positions in University of Jyväskylä. His research focuses on users in different manifestations of information systems, their management and acquisition, and enterprise architectures. He has been principal investigator in several major research projects. His research articles have appeared in journals such as Information Systems Journal, Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, Enterprise Information Systems, Decision Support Systems¸ and The DATA BASE. He is Associate Editor in Business Information Systems and Engineering, a member of advisory board of Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, and its past Editor in Chief.