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This paper proposes a methodology based on Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) and Fuzzy Inference Systems (FIS), to obtain a better selection of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). The company, which are going to acquire the software, bases this selection on their own imposed criteria and the ERPs alternatives based on some supplier's information. To select the most appropriate ERP, at the beginning,...
Aiming at the problem of the effect of information technology and its impact on the performance of the manufacturing industry. Based on the existing research, we sets information hardware and software investment as explanatory variables, the number of highly educated employees as the moderator variables, the enterprise performance as the explanatory variables. This paper makes an empirical study of...
Digital content industry, listed as China's “key cultural industries”, has maintained high-speed growth in recent years. However, challenges still remain since piracy has become obstacles in long-term sustainable development. A firm may employ different pricing and investing policies with differentiated environmental conditions to protect intellectual property, increase legitimate sales and maximize...
Nowadays, information technology is condition sine qua non of every successful business in information economy surroundings. The implementation of daily tasks is aggravated or impossible without use of information techologies (IT). In this sense, many questions emerge - can companies use information technology as their competitive advantage? Is IT potentially the generator of increasing the financial...
Goal: To develop a systematic methodology for decision support in the analysis of the market (for example, the IT market). The analysis of the market of information and communication technologies of the Russian Federation and the adoption of an effective management decision on the choice of IT companies for possible investment. Based on the research conducted, it is possible to make an effective management...
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...
Technical debt is a metaphor in software engineering interpreted as a trade-off between short-term benefits of postponing development activities and long-term consequences of postponing those activities. Most of the research in technical debt literature focus on identifying technical debt, justifying what to include and what to exclude in the technical debt scope and how to deal with them: either...
The majority of software development companies are significantly benefitted by adopting software process improvement (SPI). This has been extensively addressed both in terms of research and established standards. In particular, the need for SPI in the context of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) led a lot of researchers to focus on this area. SMEs struggle daily to survive in a very competitive...
Pursuant decree law no. 197/2012 and 198/2012 published by Portuguese government, whereby it states that any company with turnover higher than 100.000 € is obliged to possess an electronic billing software, this article seeks to identify and evaluate the impacts of an ERP implementation in Portuguese SME. Through both exploratory interviews performed to three entrepreneurs and questionnaire performed...
An integrated enterprise system (IES) is essential to keep an enterprise growing and improving its productivity. Previous research relating to IES selection generally deals only with ERP solutions. The aim of this paper is to propose a fuzzy multi criteria decision making (MCDM) approach that could be followed to enable a given enterprise to select the most appropriate IES among the existing ones...
The paper considers the market of software products. Regularly this markets are suffering from dealing with a problem of countefeit or pirate products that are sold. Taking this into account the paper is solving the problem of price equilibrium on this market. The software company set the price and the quality of the software product while the countefeit or pirate company suggest the consumers the...
Currently organizations have been concerned with the analysis of the impacts of IT investments. Economic pressures, combined with years of significant IT spending without demonstrating clear returns, forced companies to improve their financial practices and justify better and more clearly every penny invested. Thus, this article presents a model to calculate the return on investment after the installation...
Dynamic market conditions, changing technologies and continuous improvement require more IT financial transparency than ever. The market is characterized by large IT investments. Regarding the investments, managers require a clear understanding of the costs and require means to control them. The most effective metrics are those that are applicable during all stages of the development process. This...
When Service science, management, and engineering (SSME) was introduced in the mid-2000s, top IT vendors, IBM, HP, and Oracle were very aggressive and established research organizations and standardization organizations. But today, it seems that they have changed their course. IBM says it plans to expand Pre-tax Income margins through a shift to higher value material, namely, Software. HP's CEO, Meg...
This study focus on how international information from Taiwan based enterprises in China to influence on investment of Chinese services enterprises entered an Ethnic Chinese Market by Greenfield investment. It addresses two questions. First, what force drive Chinese services enterprises to entry in Taiwan? Second, how Chinese service based enterprises collected international information for learning...
In present times software reengineering has become an important domain of research to increase the shelf life of legacy system. The major objective for reengineering revolves around reducing the cost of investment in Information Technology (IT) infrastructure by reducing the maintenance cost and capitalizing on the current existing IT infrastructure. This can be achieved by making it more adaptable...
Server Virtualisation (SV) can improve the application efficiency of network sever resources, reduce the investment of hardware and less the cost of maintenance. This paper analyses that five key factors that are hardware cost, energy cost, software cost, maintenance cost and outage (or downtime) recovery cost in the Server Virtualisation. There a sample case is an university or a company what its...
More and more attention is paid to the interactive development between the economic integration of China-Japan-Korea and the economy of overseas Chinese. By analyzing the business cases about Japanese and Korean Chinese Businessman Song Wenzhou, Xue Rongxing, we find that Japanese and Korean Chinese businessmen are forced to venture and start from scratch; with higher education they are quite sharp...
IT support system is important to the telecom operators more and more under the all-service operation era, and the evaluation is a key step in the management of IT support system construction. According to the characteristic of IT support system in telecom operators, a evaluation architecture for IT support system is proposed in this paper. Moreover, the authors evaluate the IT support system of CMCC...
This work investigates interdependencies between projects. Interdependency management is used to make project selection and review process more effective in Project Portfolio Management. Usage of interdependencies also helps to increase success. Interdependencies can be human resource, technological, and/or market-based. Despite of having roots in sixties and relatedness to famous theories, phenomenon...
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