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The demo showcases the SmartH2O platform1, a system for water demand management based on an original mix of data analytics and behavioral science. SmartH2O collects consumption data from the automatic meter infrastructure of a (water) utility and allows customers access them in a Web portal, where they can see information about their actual and forecasted consumption, compare with the neighborhood,...
Before deploying their infrastructure (resources, data, communications, ) on a Cloud computing platform, companies want to be sure that it will be properly secured. At deployment time, the company provides a security policy describing its security requirements through a set of properties. Once its infrastructure deployed, the company want to be assured that this policy is applied and enforced. But...
Optimising the IT infrastructure of large, often geographically distributed, organisations goes beyond the classical virtual machine reassignment problem, for two reasons: (i) the data centres of these organisations are composed of a number of hosting departments which have different preferences on what to host and where to host it, (ii) the top-level managers in these data centres make complex decisions...
Crowd-sourcing is an amalgamation of outsourcing to the crowd. Being an extremely well flourishing paradigm crowd sourcing is soon to be the new Cloud computing because it has revolutionized the entire organizational setup. In this paper we not only show the circumstances that led to the modern day crowd-sourcing but also the concerns of security complications and privacy invasions that have arisen...
Workshop is one of the most important practical training processes in current colleges design education activities. At present, there are mainly two design workshop models for colleges: one is held by some colleges on the occasion of the academic meeting opportunity, and the other one is held by creative industrial parks or creative corporations. However, neither of them could be conducted in a normalized...
The dependency on cloud computing is expanding exponentially due to its operational and cost-effective benefits, allowing organizations to adopt solutions within very short periods without wasting enormous efforts and resources on implementation, instead focusing on more strategic objectives. Therefore, the process of understanding the effect of critical success factors (CSFs) which influences the...
The development of new technologies has changed the way computers are used in organizations, the type of applications used, and the way employees perform their tasks. Organizations need to pay attention to these technologies and keep up to date with the latest ones available because they can bring numerous benefits to the workings of the organization. A technology such as ‘cloud computing’ has replaced...
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is a new generation of cloud service in which users operating systems execute in a cloud data center. Users can access their desktops and applications by using thin client devices. This thin client is consisting of only a screen attached with low power CPU. This new paradigm of delivering remote desktop provides benefits in terms of flexibility, cost reduction,...
Cloud Adoption is associated with a number of risks. Modeling risk management in cloud adoption becomes imperative. Cloud adoption risk analysis model (CARA) is designed to guide companies through the process of cloud adoption. It calculates the potential losses on the basis of various risk scenarios. It also guides through cloud service provider selection.
The development of SCM systems is a difficult activity, since it involves integrating critical business flows both within and among participating companies. The inherently difficulty of the problem is exacerbated by the business constraint (that almost invariably applies in the real world) that the investments made by individual companies throughout the years must be preserved. This maps to major...
The use of information technology becomes important tool to achieve business goals of an organization. One of the technologies that can be used for that purpose is cloud computing, which enable some cloud service could be comfortably accessed anywhere. Additional benefit offered by cloud technology is by providing an access to the shared network in some computing resource that has been configured...
Cloud computing is the fruit of recent developments in information technology, it provides access to many online services as well as remote computing resources as needed. To be more specific, cloud computing stands today as a satisfactory answer to the problem of storage and computing of data encountered by companies. It provides treatment and accommodation of their digital information via a fully...
This article aims to identify the determinant contingency factors in the decision to transform to cloud computing. An exploratory study of 225 cases of companies of different sizes and shapes, spread over all continents, was conducted, taking into account the factors of culture, size and structure. The factors of industry, strategy and technology were also considered, as well as managerial cognition...
Customer Relationship Management is about managing the core asset of a company -- its relationship with customers. Confiding such an important asset to an external service provider requires special attention. Therefore, we investigated which factors influence the willingness of companies, especially in Europe to use CRM in a public cloud environment. Our model of the "Use of CRM" in a public...
Recently cloud computing technology has gained its popularity on research and development for petroleum explorations. The advances of cloud computing offer flexibility of computing power and storage capacity, provides beneficial technology for this application domain. For instance, the cloud computing technology can effectively reduce the complexity of information collection and control time in the...
In this paper we propose a method and its application to construct the information system for a company that needs the cloud computing services. The points of this method are coupling the advantage of cloud computing service provided by the telecom operators and SaaS vendors. Specifically, we discuss about "SaaS virtualization method". This method is combine together the SaaS base service...
The rising of cloud computing has dramatically changed the way software companies provide and distribute their IT product and related services over the last decades. Today, most software is bought off-the-shelf and distributed over the Internet. This transition is greatly influencing how software companies operate. In this paper, we present a case study of an ERP vendor for SMB (small and medium-size...
Digital business ecosystems are becoming an increasingly popular concept as an open environment for modeling and building interoperable system integration. Business organizations have realized the importance of using standards as a cost-effective method for accelerating business process integration. Small and medium size enterprise (SME) participation in global trade is increasing, however, digital...
In UAE, there is big investment in contracting business. Our study indicates that local contracting companies suffer from drawbacks in the Information Technology infrastructure concerning system inflexibility, Ineligibility of Data entry operators, process flow and Internet connection at some projects' site offices. This paper attempt to resolve these issues through proposing an Information Sharing...
Hundreds of companies trying to move their JEE applications to the cloud face different challenges because these applications were developed without considering their deployment in cloud infrastructures. This fact typically generates that those companies have to pay large infrastructure costs in their cloud deployments. In the short-term, those companies have to decide if they should continue paying...
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