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Many of the current modern business organizations strongly rely on information Technology (IT) to attain its determined objectives. As achieving customer satisfaction is a basic objective, then one of the key success factors especially for e-business is the effective use of IT in order to raise the business performance in all its phases and ensure its continuous competitiveness. Therefore, supporting...
This paper discusses the problems of design and implementation of complex set of interconnected online and offline planning, optimization and monitoring tools of Swiss Transmission System Operator Swissgrid. After analyzing the requirements and challenges of the system, the paper presents its realization concept, as well as implementation results and the future plans. Solution under discussion widely...
The concept and design of a valuable approach to enforce complex data migration activities in large-scale enterprise architecture projects could be seen as a competitive advantage. How can you meet the new challenges of global competitiveness? Might handling and reducing cost pressure be an asset?
Through verification and validation of processes and activities, this article describes Gaia VERO framework and its application. In order to facilitate its understanding and application processes, they were divided into four functional domains (Planning and Standardization — PP, Development — DE, Completion and Support — FS and Monitoring and Evaluation-MA). Each domain has a set of processes that...
Adaptivity for service-based systems is one of the most challenging research problems to fully exploit the dinamicity promised by the service paradigm. In this paper we present the research results achieved by the FBK SOA unit within the S-Cube Network, aiming at addressing key challenges in this area: context-aware adaptation, user-centric adaptation, cross- and multi-layer adaptation.
To strengthen patch management, organizations are required not only to focus on sole patch management on single server, machine or application servers, but also to consider other IT system management processes as well because patch management relies on them to be efficient. Processes such as inventory, system configurations, risk management, change management, system audit, and business cost on policy...
Establishing the new complex cooperative making information system about daily dispatching plan is the focal problem in the field of railway dispatching informatization in China now, through integrating the core function modules of each existing special business making information by using the advanced technology, Building the corresponding cooperative making model about daily dispatching plan is...
Nowadays, we are assisting to a paradigmatic shift for the development of web applications due to the pervasive distribution of their components among a lot of servers, which are dynamically interconnected by web links. As a consequence, the application logic is often defined by exploiting workflow languages since they are more suitable to address the complexity of these new running environments....
Autonomic computing is about systems that can manage themselves. Self-management includes self-configuration, self-healing, self-optimization, etc. (self-* properties). Agent technology offers key advantages for the development of autonomic computing systems as it supports autonomy, adaptability, etc. Current Web service standards and technologies don't provide a suitable architecture in which all...
Business intelligence is a powerful tool, it can help and guide enterprise to make decision, but improves their products and services quantity. This paper describes the functions of Performance Point Server and Microsoft other BI products, discusses their features, and finally, compares their management capabilities: monitoring, analysis, planning, and reporting.
Like any other international industry, airlines have undergone the economics recession which endangers their very own existence. In this paper, we studied an innovative method to boost up the market share and revenue generation in airline industry. A method in which reverses the fleet planning process in Iran's Airlines, and improves the customer's purchase behavior.
Business English teaching is a branch of English teaching for Specific Purposes. In this paper, based on the characteristics of ESP, meta-cognitive strategies will be integrated into the business English teaching, which is a new model of business English teaching. The model centers on students and help students to develop their capabilities in planning, monitoring and assessing their own learning...
Value based management (VBM) aims to promote value of enterprise. In the management process, value of enterprise is changed dynamically and the value change corresponds to an event which happens to the enterprise, such as success of new product development, fall of share price and so on. In other words, an event indicates a change of enterprise value. In this paper, the concepts of enterprise event,...
We studied how a middle-sized Finnish company employing agile methods governs its software product development. Through observations and interviews we followed the trace from strategic plans in the form of roadmaps to various backlogs and all the way to daily work. The governance roles, responsibilities and deliverables seemed to be in place on different organizational levels. However, closer inspection...
The Web service paradigm allows applications to interact electronically with one another over the Internet. Standards and languages, such as BPEL and OWL-S provide a platform with which Web services can be integrated. Moreover, various AI planning techniques have also been adapted to integrate services. However, the autonomous and distributed nature of an integrated service presents unique challenges...
Spatial information service is a fundamental element for sharing and interoperating spatial information. Several reference specifications have been constituted by ISO and Open GIS Consortium (OGC) to provide standard interfaces of different services. For the purpose of complex task, chains distributed atom service together is a possible solution. How to link spatial information services quickly, efficiently...
Digital information is instable and easy to be lost. With the rapid development of information technology, the hardware and software used to read digital data become obsolescent soon, while a lot of information in these unreadable data is so valuable for businesses and professions that it is urgent to be preserved for long-term utilization (or "digital preservation"). Since 1980s, there...
Previous studies show that the agile development models implement very few risk management practices. In this paper, we present and evaluate a model integrating the risk management and agile processes. The results show that the model provides a valid solution to address the lack of risk management, however, only in certain types of agile projects.
For the past few years, it has been possible to buy a business application including transaction processing systems for such tasks as accounting, manufacturing, or human resources as a packaged product. Packages to do this collection of work are generally referred to as enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Most ERP systems are huge because of the diversity of tasks they must perform. The ERP...
This study evaluates the use of benefits realisation management (BRM) in information technology (IT) projects. Past research concludes that realising the tangible and intangible benefits from IT projects is not easy and is often not carried out at all. Fifty-four IT project managers in South Africa successfully completed an online questionnaire. An analysis of the data showed that, whilst BRM processes...
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