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Summary form only given. Accountability in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a capability of making business processes across all participants (services, applications and people) accountable in terms of both business logic and Quality of Services (QoS). While accountability is a critical mechanism to enhance trust between collaborative services, there is the lack of standard accountability support...
Enforcing the right of access to personal data usually is a long-running process between a data subject and an organization that processes personal data. As of today, this task is commonly realized using a manual process based on postal communication or personal attendance and ends up conflicting with trade secret protection. In this paper, we present an automated architecture to enable exercising...
The internet has emerged as one of the realistic tools for recruiting the employees in the I.T. companies using recruitment portal agencies. In which, the employee and the employer can reach out to each other faster and easier. E-recruitment is becoming increasing sophisticated in Indian I.T. companies. But practicaly, it is a tedious task for the employer to screen for the suitable resumes from the...
This case study illustrates the potential benefits and risks associated with the migration of an IT system in the oil & gas industry from an in-house data center to Amazon EC2 from a broad variety of stakeholder perspectives across the enterprise, thus transcending the typical, yet narrow, financial and technical analysis offered by providers. Our results show that the system infrastructure in...
Cloud computing has emerged as a strong factor driving companies to remarkable business success. Far from just being an IT level support solution cloud computing is triggering changes in their core business models by making them more efficient and cost-effective. This has generated an interest for a lot of companies to try and adopt cloud computing for their existing and new business process. In this...
Handling changes of business processes, and making sure systems are up and running after a change in the business process with minimum downtime is something which has been of interest to researchers for long and there have been several approaches proposed for it. With Cloud computing becoming increasingly popular businesses require a strong system for cloud based implementations which can handle change...
Grid computing is increasingly being viewed as the next phase of distributed computing. Built on pervasive Internet standards, grid computing enables organizations to share computing and information resources across department and organizational boundaries in a secure, highly efficient manner. Grid computing originates in e-Science and its early development was driven to a large extent by the requirements...
The management and automation of business processes have become an essential tasks within IT organizations. Companies could deploy business process management systems to automatize their business processes. BPMS needs to ensure that those are as dependable as possible. Fault tolerance techniques provide mechanisms to decrease the risk of possible faults in systems. In this paper, a framework for developing...
Changes are continuously happening in enterprises and they impact the IT landscape. The most drastic among them are mergers and acquisitions, but recent trends like globalization and recession also lead companies to adopt new business consolidation strategies. Today, very limited support is provided to companies undergoing consolidation: the business to IT alignment is implicit, the task of identifying...
The last several decades have seen a steadily growing awareness across enterprises of the benefits of proper IT strategic planning. IT strategic planning, as the first step among the process of enterprise informationization, is the guideline of the enterprise informationization as well as the foundation of implementation. This paper aims to discuss how to make proper IT strategic planning. After discussing...
In 2009 China Enterprise Informatization composite index 40.46, China's overall informatization companies in the lower-middle maturity state. At present, most Chinese enterprises are in the transition period which means from the informatization critical application phase to the expansion of integration and optimization phase. The transition period is the critical period of the improvement of the maturity...
In current enterprise IT solution services, many customers cannot utilize IT systems effectively nor reap any benefit from their services due to problems encountered and failures. To rectify this situation, we analyze these issues using reverse engineering method in this paper. First, we discuss the current situation of this field in Japan. Second, the IT solution service that we have developed is...
Microsoft MapPoin application plays a very important role in Business scenarios, it can help us understand well business scenarios, solve current business problems in time. This paper describes business scenarios need, illustrates several examples of uses of MapPoint, and finally, gives out the full process of taking sample data, importing it into MapPoint, and displaying it on the map in a meaningful...
In this paper, the focus is on finding an answer to the question why Mobile R&D prototypes are not being implemented. To find an explanation, we formulated propositions, moving from a macro-economic view on innovation, via innovation strategies to explanations that focus on the design of the artefact and the supporting business models. We concluded that, in the design process, the focus is on...
This study conducts three types of relational embedded configuration based on the relational embedded ties between the focal firm and its partners-customer, supplier, competitor and research institution. The effects of configurations on service innovation are contingent on service innovation types. From internal perspective, the network competence of a firm can enhance the performance of service innovation...
The main objective of this paper to enhance the entire supply chain of Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Pakistan, and to examine the SMEs in Pakistan and how the SMEs adopt their way of undertaking business from traditional practice to e-business? Implementation of supply chain management will lower costs and increase efficiency and thus lead to the significant gain for SMEs. The Supply...
The birth of Internet gave a brand new meaning to Technological Innovation. Information technology, the product of Internet, now is the important base and way to promote the Technological Innovation of enterprises. With the aim of helping enterprises improve the technological innovation ability, this paper discusses how to improve enterprise technological innovation ability based on Internet, proposes...
This study reports on results of an empirical investigation designed to assess the impact of a firm's propensities of innovativeness and risk taking upon its innovation performance in the Chinese transitional economic context. The key findings of this research are based on data collected from 207 senior and middle managers. The results indicate that a firm's propensity of innovativeness is an important...
Though online travel services industry has been going through rapid growth, the business models were ambiguous and immature. Even the leader CTrip.com learns by trial and error. Therefore, study on business models transformation of companies in this industry is significant, especially on those medium-and-small ones because they are in the majority. In this work, we evaluate the business model of a...
E-business is rapidly changing the traditional business model. In order to establish the e-business which is consistent with the characteristics of business and to establish the position of enterprises in the new competition pattern, a new e-business system based on .NET is designed and implemented. The system takes .NET as a development platform. It mainly includes the four functions: search, registration,...
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