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Collaboration in business environments is an ongoing trend that is enabled by and based on cloud computing. It supports flexible and ad-hoc reconfiguration and integration of different services, which are provided and used via the internet, and implemented within business processes. This is an important competitive advantage for the participating stakeholders. However, trust, policy compliance, and...
Through the outstanding efficiency and the general success of cloud computing, cloud-innovations have become an everyday part of the industry. Almost every company has defined business processes to organize its business. The next logical step is to bring business processes to the cloud to exploit the benefits of the cloud and to enable the companies to collaborate with each other in one business process...
Today's business is more and more organized in collaborative networks. Although decision makers know the benefits of collaboration, they are afraid of losing control of their data, which is one of the main impediments for Cloud Computing. We propose a novel cloud based approach for collaboration in business processes with guaranteed control of the privacy of the data. The platform ensures the compliance...
The emergence of a closer relationship between cloud service providers in the cloud computing market is the inevitable consequence of the computing as utility concept. The closer cooperation creates competitive advantages for providers and users of cloud services as well. Capacities and services can be used in a collaborative and flexible way. Despite the numerous potentials of composite cloud services,...
Logistics and its involved parties are nowadays faced with demanding challenges, in order to fulfill their customers' needs. Hence logistics service providers are constrained to cooperate with each other, which leads to the challenge of ‘understanding’ each other's service descriptions and integrating the strongly differing IT-systems. An emerging approach to solve this problem is the operation of...
Adequate integrated ICT infrastructure and services are a prerequisite for keeping pace with the rapid rise of complexity and service levels in logistics. Recent studies indicate a high attractiveness and impact perspective of cloud computing for logistics service providers within few years in order to cope with the growing IT capacity demands. Within this paper, a comprehensive overview is given...
Logistics service providers (LSP) are facing an increasing complexity of the logistics sector, i.e. growing levels of process fragmentation plus increasing speed, customization and service demands of logistics clients. Adequate powerful, integrated ICT infrastructure and tools are a prerequisite for keeping pace with the ever increasing service level demands within international logistics. The Cloud...
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