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Cloud computing systems are widely used in the business, industry and automation for leveraging the effectiveness of the organizational operations. Cloud computing is a computer technology that enable convenient, on demand and pay-per-use access to a pool of shared resources. The benefits of cloud computing promise that automation systems can be managed effectively by utilizing cloud infrastructure...
Information Technology companies hitherto shipping their information system have off late started strategizing in pulling back their outsourced information technology. Outsourcing was looked at technically feasible and financially viable strategy for decades. This paper looks into the phenomenon of backsourcing as an organizational innovation that is betraying the engineering marvel of outsourcing...
This system is based on C/S architecture design and development of service-oriented architecture of financial information management system, users can end the system directly through the client-related operations, the user submits a request to the server, the server accesses the database, in order to ensure that the database security, according to the function of the system is divided module testing,...
This research conducts the auditing of the business process of accounting at "Saint Petersburg Telecom LLC" company. A particular emphasis is made on the influence of the data system over the process of business accounting. Weak spots in the informatization of accounting management are revealed and new solutions for the improvement of the information system are presented.
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...
In recent years, knowledge is considered to be a valued and important asset within an organization. However, knowledge sharing in many organizations is deemed a challenge and an obstacle to overcome. This research was prepared to explore the predecessors that influence knowledge sharing and knowledge utilization behavior. The underlying research model was developed using Social Cognitive Theory alongside...
The analysis of foreign and domestic information systems shows that these systems possess a number of shortcomings. The majority of foreign programs are not oriented on the features of business processes in Russia; do not conform to the requirements of Russian industrial enterprises to contents of tasks and functions of the systems in question. Besides, purchasing and updating modern foreign ERP systems...
Event logs are history records that contain sequence data for the activity of a case that has been executed by an information system. Event logs can be valuable information with a technique called mining process. With this technique, cheating on the business processes of an enterprise can be detected early on. Thus, the company can commit further examination of business processes, especially the business...
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...
Companies increasingly equip their customers with toolkits for user innovation and design to address the challenges of growing customer demand for unique products and increasingly heterogeneous customer preferences. Yet, compared to buying a product off the shelf, customizing products through toolkits requires higher efforts, time, and expertise from customers. To outbalance increased efforts, toolkits...
To date, there are few published articles relating to the taxonomy of smartphone users, thus leading to the lack of understanding of the specific factors on why different users continued to use smartphones in their daily activities and tasks, including distributed decision making. To address this issue and to fill the gap in the literature, we conducted an exploratory study to derive an empirically-based...
Even though a company is willing to adopt an information system, there is often some organizational inertia associated with the adoption process. In this paper, we explore the types of inertia in IS adoption in the context of a specific business process. Drawing on seven case studies where inertia can be observed, we illustrate the inertia types found in earlier research and find indication for the...
This paper reports on an ongoing design-driven action research effort using information systems to promote transparency in the European freight transport industry. The current lack of transparency is linked to a growth of unsustainable business practices. This can be countered by reducing information asymmetry. However, access to reliable information is hampered by the severely fragmented organizational...
Although cost-benefit analyses are an important aspect of information technology (IT) security (ITS) management, previous research focuses largely on the customer perspective and neglects the supplier side. However, since ensuring a high level of ITS in modern IT products is typically associated with a large investment, customers' willingness to pay is essential for decision making in the context...
Passenger transportation has become more diverse in the recent past. New providers and transportation services are reeling up markets around the world. Together with the rise of the sharing economy, substantial ramifications for the transportation sector emerge. As a result of an increasing number of mobility options, the traveler can choose from a richer mobility menu. The difficulty of selecting...
Despite of the promising benefits of cloud computing in enabling efficient, sustainable and agile Supply Chain Collaborations (SCCs), this service does not eliminate governance challenges in SCCs. Cloud based SCCs may flounder without a proper understanding of how to govern inter-organizational relations and insight into how the cloud service will affect it. Using a case study method, this study aims...
COBIT 5 is a framework, released in 2012 by ISACA, which can help enterprise set governance objective and plan strategy effectively, to make enterprise create business value. It can be used to identify and manage risk and intensify the IT services. The main findings of this study could help enterprise understand that: (1) The IT management process of COBIT 5 has a significant direct impact on internal...
One important challenge in ERP implementation is the acceptance and usage of ERP systems by their users. This study aims to identify important antecendents of ERP acceptance and usage among individual users, considering specifically the complex nature of ERP systems. A research model was developed, incorporating two antecedents from DeLone and McLean IS success model, two technological related antecedents...
In response to the international trend, in recent years companieshave officially adopted the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) and need to perform upgrade or adjustment to their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systemsfor the IFRS conversion. Information technology (IT) governance in an ERP system environment will become akey that cannot be ignored by the management. To investigate...
Researchers have found that approximately 70% of information systems development projects in Japan have failed, thus increasing the demand for solutions that will raise expected project success rates. It is said that to improve success rates, it is essential that risk management should be conducted at an early stage. Although risk management is an important process that a project focuses on, it is...
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