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The level of readiness to use information and communication technologies is referred to as a measure of “e-Readiness”. South African universities may be well-placed to use some applications of information and communication technologies, but unable to use others. From review of existing literature, it is unclear as to which factors are regarded as important to be “e-Ready” in the South African Higher...
The condition in difficulty for capture software product line (SPL) requirement in e-government system is critical in the government domain. It cause of the multiple business processes are highly dynamic and at even during execution require changes are needed. In order to response it, the mechanism and systematic approach for capture software requirement, called conceptual approach is needed. Besides...
Under competitive market conditions, one of the key objectives of an industrial enterprise is to form and implement an innovation strategy. The purpose of this research study is to form, justify and evaluate the financial and investment development strategy of the enterprise in a short-term and middle-term period. The mission of the enterprise is to develop and introduce software products for industrial...
Changing our practical software engineering course from the previous waterfall model to a more agile and iterative approach created more severe assessment challenges. To cope with them we added an assessment concept based on play money. The concept not only includes weekly expenses to simulate real running costs but also investments, which correspond to assessment results of the submissions. This...
Portfolio Management is considered to be one of the biggest task for fund managers. Managing the portfolio with appropriate stocks at right time is always aimed for. Banking industry is significant in a country's economic growth. Banking stocks are majorly observed among the investors. The paper aims to understand the performance of banking stocks in India. The paper also focuses to compare private...
In this paper, an embedded Linux-based platform named Digital Invoice ARchiving InSTrument (DIARIST) is proposed. While the DIARIST system is located on the tax payer's side, it is responsible for the processing of e-Archive invoices, it distinguishes e-Archive invoices from e-Invoices, it communicates with the remote server and it allows tax-payers to print their e-Archive invoices for their customers...
The launch of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software on the market requires careful planning, which incorporates a requirements prioritization process. Although there are numerous prioritization techniques, few satisfy quality criteria such as scalability, efficiency and ease of use. This research presents a survey of COTS software requirements prioritization to be potentially used by thousands...
The effectiveness of public policy measures to foster the competitiveness of Information Technology (IT) industries has been intensively debated nowadays, since a multitude of policy instruments can be applied to different business segments and time frames, with varying levels of legal security and expected results. In this paper, we investigate the influence of some tax incentive and market regulation...
The core of enterprise management is financial management, and the characteristics of enterprise group determine the feature of its financial management. This paper introduces the concept and characteristics of Financial Shared Services Center and summarizes the features of the construction industry on financial management, and then based on the characteristics of the construction enterprises and...
Our proposed methodology allows to calculate the economic value and evaluate the performance, for each of the components of a website. Currently, to assess a website, there are several techniques: expert assessment, business performance factors, valuation algorithms or income and expenses of the website. These methods incorporate a subjective estimate to determine income — they incorporate income...
This paper discloses improved existing or new fiscal cash registers and fiscal printers with improved existing or new internal or external communication devices with external computer devices relaying encrypted tax related data to tax administration server, receiving non-encrypted or encrypted additional service related data and running additional services.
Bitcoins have opened a new chapter in the arena of electronic financial transactions. Due to their decentralized nature and independence from the need of a third party for authorizing transactions, they are seen as an alternative choice for payments by many firms and financial institutions. But like all other prevalent financial transaction technologies, they are also having their securities issues...
This paper studies on the problem of international trade settlement system design and implementation, which is very useful to solve the problems in traditional international trade business transactions. Framework of the international trade settlement system is made up of three modules: 1) Trade finance business processing model, 2) Quasi credit card business processing, and 3) Host interface processing...
Educational information management shall take full advantages of modern information technologies. The comprehensive and deep integration of information technologies and educational management shall be highlighted. As a major part of the educational information management, the university financial information management has already become the inexorable orientation and trend. By introducing the financial...
ORG, fictitious name, is a large company with complex-globally distributed projects that has recently started a "big-bang" transition to agile. About a year ago the new CIO announced it was time to aim for faster deliveries and decided on a company-wide roll-out to agile, including legacy systems. In this paper we report on an interview-based qualitative study that aimed to identify the...
In this mini-track, research papers and experience reports examine how agile development and lean product management interact with organizations, their structures, cultures and products.
This article investigates the role of noise traders in financial markets by using an agent-based model. In this study, I analyze the market where various kinds of investors, including fundamentalists and investors who employ a passive investment strategy (which is one of the most popular investment strategies in the asset management business), are present. As a result of intensive experimentation,...
Cloud computing software can benefit an organization by reducing capital costs, increasing flexibility and simplifying relationships with vendors. However, there are also risks and limitations including management of data and integration with other software. Decision-making models have therefore been developed. To date, these models are predicated on the scale ability of software that comes from sharing...
Effective requirements traceability supports practitioners in reaching higher project maturity and better product quality. Researchers argue that effective traceability barely happens by chance or through ad-hoc efforts and that traceability should be explicitly defined upfront. However, in a previous study we found that practitioners rarely follow explicit traceability strategies. We were interested...
Short release duration -- the time from starting development until it delivers measurable value (i.e., paying customers adopt an upgrade) -- is an implied goal of agile methods. Release duration incorporates the expensive parts of the value chain: build, test, deploy and sell (but not exploratory design, for example). Release duration correlates with technical debt. Attempting to reduce release duration...
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