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Maturity models (MMs) are an established instrument to identify strengths and weaknesses of certain domains. Having constructed such a maturity model for the domain of Business Intelligence (BI) in prior research, we explore the influence of contextual factors on the evolution of BI maturity in organizations in this paper. Therefore, four different BI maturity models were constructed on the basis...
Organizations have deployed enterprise systems (ESs) to achieve integration of business activities, increase operational efficiencies, and improve organizational effectiveness. This study investigates the management practices of manufacturing organizations utilizing ES technology to examine the operational performance management process. Case studies conducted in three manufacturing firms that have...
This paper developed a customer satisfaction evaluation model for the actual situation of shipbuilding enterprise. According to the shipbuilding enterprise technology needs for customer evaluation, it puts forth the customer satisfaction evaluation method.
At the present world of IT, ensuring Trust is a very important topic; especially for service oriented systems. In the present trust models, particularly in Certain Trust model the main parameters of the representational model portion are uncertainty and average rating which are based on propositional logic where the possible values for them are considered between 0 and 1. In this paper we have proposed...
The sanitation sector of São Paulo is responsible for a significant share of the brazilian market and the private sector participation in this segment has gained strength in recent years. To address the needs of the population and also give returns to shareholders, the sanitation company is constantly seeking to improve their results. Increase sales have become a major challenge for the managers of...
A typical scenario is presented where business entities wish to expand their operation and in doing so require a larger electrical supply capacity (supplied peak-demand). If the increase required exceeds the savings that an energy efficiency initiative can achieve, the business is left with no other alternative than to request an increase in the electrical supply capacity. This paper investigates...
Business Intelligence (BI) promises a coordinated and integrated approach to management support. This goal, however, is constantly challenged by de-central and isolated systems that emerge on the side of the user departments and that seriously affect the overall effectiveness of BI. This contribution explores how requirements for "agility" might explain the situation and what measures can...
One of the emerging sweet-spots in business intelligence (BI) and business performance management (BPM) projects is the design of metrics (dashboards) in such a way that they balance the need for "inward focused" operational management with the need for "outward-focused" strategic management. Unfortunately, hitting this sweet spot often proves to be a difficult process, particularly...
We proposed a new approach for target value sequencing problem using weighted evidence theory. Target value evaluation index system is constructed located at artillery battlefield, the uncertain target information are fused based on the evidence theory, the index weight is decided based on analytic network process. The case proves the reliability of the results and the validity of this method. This...
In e-business environment, intelligent supplier selection in supply chain management has become an important issue. This paper divides the multi-attributes of supplier into two categories by fuzzy and certainty properties, and uses multi-Agent technology to make supplier selection decision intelligent. We use fuzzy evaluation and similarity evaluation comprehensive methods, and make more effective...
Business analysis helps companies in making decisions, and this involves doing evaluations and comparisons on business data. Our research focus on the development of a question answering (QA) system capable of interpreting and answering comparative and evaluative questions under the domain of business intelligence (BI). The paper describes the architecture, the approaches, the question and predicate...
M&A has become one of the most important strategies of a business expansion and development. How to set a reasonable and accurate price on the target company is the key point of success. Because of asymmetric information, fixing a proper price of the target company is not only need to analyze the financial situation but also depend on the ability of negotiation and accurately decision. The article...
With the deepening process of Chinese urbanization, it becomes a worthy research topic how to get a night urban skyline view with good effects through design means. The main purpose of this article is to provide some references and ideas for night skyline planning and design by analyzing urban night skyline's design elements.
With the advent of cloud computing, organizations tend to buy services from data centers of major cloud vendors. In contrast, community cloud computing as described in [1] give the alternative way to reduce the costs or even obtain free resources, by sharing among communities. Because the utilization of computing resources in an organization is not constantly 100%, other members of the community can...
The companies aim to develop sustainability on a daily basis, therefore, every day, new strategic plans are developed. Their success attracts investors because it corroborates with the returns expected in their investment. In this process, the security of business is seen as a stable foundation for investments. In the 90s, the issue of security did not have its weight properly assessed during the...
During recent years, how to determine suitable suppliers in the supply chain has become a key strategic consideration. However, the nature of supplier selection is a complex multi-criteria problem including both quantitative and qualitative factors which may be in conflict and may also be uncertain. The GRA(grey relational analysis)-based TOPSIS(technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal...
The paper studied an approach to purification of CS2 waste gas in low concentration using biological trickling filter. The results of preliminary experiment showed that, when the gas flow was 100-500mg/m3, the CS2 removal efficiency arrives percent 70-78% by using trickling filter, But the biological elimination of CS2 in waste gas could be increased from 2.06mg/(L h) to 22.52mg/(L h); meanwhile the...
There are many risk factors to be indentified, evaluated and reponsed during the design stage of the construction project. Combined with the character of the construction project designing, this paper analyzed the importance of the risk management and the whole risk factors related with the project owner, designer, the consult company and the environment. A scientific risk evaluation index system...
This research aims to critically analyse an innovative approach to Business Intelligence (BI) and Business Process Management (BPM) integration, achieved through BI-enabled BP improvement, founded in human-centered Knowledge Management (KM). The analysis is based on recent theoretical frameworks found in the related disciplines of BPM, BI and KM. The main objectives of this paper are to identify and...
In the face of stiff competition, many organizations turn to business intelligence tools to successfully compete in the marketplace. However, successfully implementing and growing a business intelligence solution to combat market pressures is an arduous task. The stages of growth models present one approach that could guide organizations in the implementation and growth of successful business intelligence...
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