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SMEs are the growth engine of a developing country's economy. It is actively contributing to GDP and employment. In consequence, SMEs financing support, ICT adoption promotion and SME's favorable evolution environment creation by policy makers, help reduce the digital divide in this era of the knowledge economy. High penetration and lower costs of Internet connectivity, Web technologies standardization,...
This paper analyses two business scenarios to evaluate the strategic impact of Future Internet and the Unified Management Framework facilitating autonomic networking in existing and future networks. The methodology is supported by three independently developed research frameworks allowing for the evaluation of the main business and strategic challenges that will arise between multiple business actors...
As one of the major commercial innovations in recent years, websites for group purchase have experienced a fast booming in domestic market. However, they have fell into a predicament because of the excessive competition. Analyzing the operating characteristics of these websites according to the Theory of Two-sided Markets, this paper finds out that one of the factors that limits the group-purchase...
Individual efforts to improve software development capability are disjointed and not likely to deliver the capacity needed to keep pace with advances in hardware technology and the opportunities afforded by big data.
With wide deployment of distributed inter-enterprise Service Delivery Platforms (SDPs) by the majority of enterprises, there is an urgent need to understand and solve service traffic issues of this evolving architectures. Thus, this paper discusses a mathematical model for the performance analysis of services availability at the inter-enterprise SDPs. The SDP is presented as an analytical model with...
Mobile communication has been dominated by vertically integrated service provision in an `operator centric model', which has been highly bound to voice and SMS services and organized in a monopolistic competition between few Mobile network operators, MVNOs and SPs. In the recent years we have witnessed a radical change driven by the introduction and further development of smartphones, where we see...
IT services are built on top and are delivered by (and therefore depend upon) IT infrastructures. The design of the latter is critical, since it will influence the overall quality of IT services. However, designing IT infrastructures for large organizations is a challenge task since it requires knowledge of existing organization processes, the views of different players, and the conjunction of technical...
Run time reconfigurable hardware combines some of the flexibility of software with the high performance of hardware. Hybrid computing systems that use reconfigurable hardware can save much energy compared to traditional high performance server systems and also have a long life expectancy due to its adaptability and the use of self-repairing techniques. So far reconfigurable hardware has mainly been...
Cloud computing is a recent trend in IT that moves computing and data away from desktop and portable PCs into large data centers, and outsources the “applications” (hardware and software) as services over the Internet. Cloud computing promises to increase the velocity with which applications are deployed, increase innovation, and lower costs, all while increasing business agility. But, is the migration...
In recent years, network financial services in china have developed very quickly. However, through empirical analysis, this paper argues that there are still many problems in the development of network financial services of china, such as laws and regulations problem, security problem, network infrastructure problem, etc. To solve these problems, this paper considers that we should formulate and improve...
There is often a transient need within enterprises for data cleansing which can be satisfied by offering data cleansing as a transient service. Every time a data cleansing need arises it should be possible to provision hardware, software and staff for accomplishing the task and then dismantling the set up. In this paper we present such a system that uses virtualized hardware and software for data...
Even if communication networks have become increasingly ubiquitous in nature offering connections from anywhere, often most both wireless connections and especially the fixed connection at home reach a data center at an operator facility. Operators struggle to facilitate the Internet growth. We approach the topic from the perspective of our network operator partner and we ask how this operator can...
This paper concentrates on consumer devices and digital content consumption at home. We approach the topic from the perspective of our network operator partner and we ask how this operator can improve its content distribution from the current IPTV service. We propose a consumer device grid that is an integral part of the operator's IP network. Our proposal results in savings in the operator's data...
Lacking of trust is one of the most important causes which make the e-commerce can't be more widely available. How to obtain the trust of Internet users has become an important factor in the development of e-commerce in China .This paper begins with the analysis of the current trust situation of electronic commerce and then proposes the concept of trusted e-commerce and a framework for trusted electronic...
Community wireless networks (CWNs) offer free or affordable Internet access for the purpose of improving the well-being of the community. Many questions have been raised about the ownership, sustainability, and social and economic implications of CWNs. To address these concerns, we propose a conceptual framework that describes the role of social capital in the creation of CWNs. This framework takes...
The software as a service (SaaS) delivery model has recently become an acceptable business model for software delivery. However, the attractiveness of SaaS to customers, with their low upfront costs and seamless delivery, changes the game in ways that challenge traditional software development methodologies. As customers begin to treat software as an on demand utility, expectations of high uptime,...
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