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All Cloud computing standards are dependent upon checklist methodology to implement and then audit the alignment of a company or an operation with the standards that have been set. An investigation of the use of checklists in other academic areas has shown there to be significant weaknesses in the checklist solution to both implementation and audit, these weaknesses will only be exacerbated by the...
Integrated permits address each aspect of a facility's operation that has environmental impact. Permitting industrial facilities is a key tool for regulating environmental pollution in many nations across the globe. In Europe, the integrated approach on environmental pollution is based on the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Directive. Now it has been replaced by Industrial Emissions Directive...
Information and Data security is of high concern for almost all organizations. Intrusion though can be dealt with use of firewalls, better and much improved ways of detecting intrusions are through advanced software, but some non technical issues may also lead to unauthorized access, if ignored. This paper attempts to discuss these issues. A survey was conducted and responses regarding cyber security...
Cloud-assisted mobile health (mHealth) monitoring is a revolutionary approach to provide decision support in the health care sector. It employs not only mobile communications but also cloud computing technologies to deliver timely suggestions. Its main objective is to not only improve the quality of healthcare service but also to decrease the healthcare expenditure. In spite of the benefits it offers,...
This article describes the outsourcing of e-learning projects in museums. Because most museums do not have a dedicated unit to develop the e-learning system, they outsource the e-learning project to outside firms. In public museums, the administration usually manage the outsourced e-learning projects as a traditional transaction under standard procedures. In this study, the author pointed out the...
The implementation of the smart grid technology does not follow pre-established rules as it must be built and customized for each company. Each company must choose from a range of applications, devices and vendors the items needed taking into account its organizational and electrical infrastructure as well as the expected technical and economic benefits. Thus, the strategic planning has the aim to...
PT Tetapundi Prima Kelola (TPK) is a small information technology company located in Jakarta established in 2012 to bridge the technology gapbetween Indonesia and other Asian countries, such as Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia. The customers of this company come from various locations in or outside Jakarta capital city. Owing to several obstacles to monitor any particular project progress, this...
It cannot be doubted that having a successful framework for an online environment is an exigent task due to the data privacy infringement occurring all around the globe; identities such as the leaking of personal photos, stealing online identities, online scams, bank frauds and the list keeps going and on. Do we want such a predicament to strike us while online? Is our online data privacy out of our...
The economic environment is consistently challenging the ability for organisations to see the future boldly. In addition, customer value has moved from a products specific requirement to a bundle of solutions inclusive of the product and the services associated therewith. Manufacturing companies not only need to adapt to the client pull effect but also require a sense of positive adaptation in the...
Innovation is the creation of new products, processes and services, and their acceptance in the market. Creativity is central to the innovation process. Creativity has been the subject of intense multi-disciplinary research and a huge volume of academic literature exists on the subject. It has been studied from many perspectives, such as psychology, psychometrics, cognitive science, aesthetics, design...
Enhance the efficiency of energy usage and lower energy costs have gained attention in the recent years. Prior research has neglected the transaction structure of energy management service. This study investigated the ex ante and ex post transaction costs with respect the contracting between Energy Service Company (ESCOs) and energy demanders. Combined with the internal control mechanisms and the...
In matured manufacturing industries, many companies are trying to change their business model by adding the concept of service, which is a process of value co-creation between provider and recipient. The value proposition based on value-in-use is a key direction for corporate business success. In a manufacturing company, technical personnel should have not only technology oriented thinking but also...
With the popularization of high-speed and high-capacity communication networks, Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication has received significant attention. However, even though the related technologies have been actively investigated, creating new businesses based on M2M communication is not easy. This paper proposes a service innovation structure that visualizes the opportunities and difficulties...
The fast and high availability of knowledge is at first seen as a benefit for knowledge workers in the information age. On closer examination the outcome of this is a big challenge: The amount of data that is available these days has to be reasonably structured and conditioned. Only the US Library of Congress collected 235 terabyte of data on its own by April 2011. Technology intelligence as a fundamental...
Companies that develop software are increasingly competitive. To learn how these firms are competitive need to measure the productivity of their software development processes (SDP). Knowing how to control productivity, the company is better able to predict various parameters and estimate their projects more closely the actual value of the projects. The project manager must monitor how the productivity...
Risk management (RM) has always been the focus of software project management studies. The abilities to monitor and control the software project risks are among the critical issues examined by various researchers. This paper discusses steps in the RM process based on Boehm model. A survey was conducted to know the perceptions of respondents on their practices of managing project risks. This paper...
This paper analyzes the current status of the construction of medium and small size power grid distribution automation, repair command system, puts forward Power Dispatching- Distribution-Repairing Integrative System for medium and small size power grid, gives the construction principles of integrated system, and describes the different types of integrated system construction model, summarizes the...
Ensuring compliance to laws and regulations in their business processes is a burdensome obligation for today's companies. Compliance requirements cover many areas of business and IT, including process design, deployment and run-time. Past approaches only covered some of these aspects. In this work we introduce a generic compliance descriptor, integrating different technical compliance implementations...
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