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Multi-Item Lot-Sizing With Joint Set-Up Costs
Apr 2008
In this paper, the authors consider a multi-item lot-sizing discrete time problem in which production takes place in (a possibly limited number of) mixed batches of constant capacity. Apart from...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
Exploration of Heterogeneous FPGA Architectures
Feb 2011
Mesh-based heterogeneous FPGAs are commonly used in industry and academia due to their area, speed, and power benefits over their homogeneous counterparts. These FPGAs contain a mixture of logic...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
Platform for Collection from Heterogeneous Web Sources and its Application to a Semantic Repository Organization at SeDiCI: Preliminaries
Oct 2009
Presentation of a web collection platform designed to relate and unify information available on different standard web sources with a view to creating a user-browseable thematic repository. The...
Provided by Universidad Nacional de La Plata
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White Papers
Tools Selection Criteria in Software - Developing Small and Medium Enterprises
Apr 2010
Nowadays, it's well-known that Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) generate important contributions to the software industry. Their particular characteristics constitute a challenge to decision...
Provided by Universidad Simon Bolivar
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White Papers
A Defeasible Logic Programming Approach to the Integration of Rules and Ontologies
Jun 2010
The Semantic Web is a vision of the current Web where resources have exact meaning assigned in terms of ontologies, thus enabling agents to reason about them. As inconsistencies cannot be treated...
Provided by Universidad Nacional del Sur
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White Papers
Competitive Multi-attribute On-line Auction
Oct 2011
The emergence of auction that supports bids characterized by several attributes is one of the most recent evolutions within auction theory. This paper introduces the multi-attribute and...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Search Engine System Based on Ontology of Technological Resources
Sep 2011
Internet has become a huge and updating information warehouse, and provides a new source for the authors to build a well technological resources sharing system to support their research work and...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
The Application of SOFM Fuzzy Neural Network in Project Cost Estimate
Aug 2011
Applications of neural network were widely used in construct project cost estimate. Aim at handling weakness of poor convergence and insufficient forecast, an improved fuzzy neural network method...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
A Study of When to Release a Software Product from the Perspective of Software Reliability Models
Apr 2011
If a software product with a significant number of defects is released too early to users, the software manufacturer will incur post-release costs of fixing the faults. If a product is released...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
A Conceptual Framework of Knowledge Transfer in Malaysia E-Government IT Outsourcing: An Integration With Transactive Memory System (TMS)
Sep 2011
Despite extensive research on knowledge transfer issues, there is a dearth of research that has explicitly focused on the role of Transactive Memory System (TMS) in enabling inter-organizational...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science Issues
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White Papers
A Case Study of Measuring Process Risk for Early Insights Into Software Safety
May 2011
In this paper, the authors examine software safety risk in three flight hardware systems in NASA's Constellation spaceflight program. They applied their Technical and Process Risk Measurement...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Case Studies
Infiniti Retail: National Chain of Retail Stores Moves to Hosted Solution, Reduces TCO by 25 to 30 Percent
Jul 2011
Infiniti Retail, a Tata Group company, runs an Indian retail chain for consumer electronics. Infiniti Retail want to boost IT efficiency and give employees access to unified communications, so...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
The Sustainable-Food Industry: The Power Of Green
Aug 2008
In recent years sustainable agricultural farming is gaining favor over factory farming. Their goals are to maintain environmental and economic balance. Now more than ever, people are wanting to...
Provided by Associated Content
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White Papers
The Top 10 Problems With Outsourcing Implementations (And How to Overcome Them)
Apr 2008
One can choose blue-chip service providers and sign innovative, iron-clad, risk-sharing contracts - but still not achieve successful results if one underestimate the importance of Change...
Provided by TPI
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White Papers
Captive Versus BPO Outsourcing
Jan 2012
Should the people outsource their domestic shared services processes or run themselves in a low-cost offshore location? Which will provide the best mix of quality, efficiency and lowest risk? Many...
Provided by ISG
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White Papers
CHINA: Opportunities and Options for Outsourcing in China
Feb 2011
China, with 20 percent of the world's population and now the second-largest economy in the world, is no stranger to outsourcing. The country has become both a substantial buyer and seller of...
Provided by ISG
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White Papers
Formal Benchmarking in Outsourcing Contracts: TPI's Position
Apr 2007
TPI clients have consistently stated that they must be able to measure the difference between contract pricing and prevailing market pricing. This requirement is especially crucial in longer-term...
Provided by TPI
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White Papers
External Technology Supply and Client-Side Innovation
Mar 2011
The market for IT outsourcing has extensively grown during the last decade. At the same time the aim of external IT provision has transformed from cost-cutting to following strategic goals. For...
Provided by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen
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White Papers
Keeping the Lights on and Building New Systems: An Examination of Information Technology Outsourcing in Services and Manufacturing
Jun 2008
Evidence shows that a large portion of IT budgets are dedicated to ongoing operations. This paper is the first, the authors know of that attempts to differentiate spending on ongoing IT operations...
Provided by Michigan State University
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White Papers
Returns to Information Technology Outsourcing
Jan 2010
This paper extends existing IT productivity research by evaluating the contributions of spending in IT outsourcing using a production function framework and an economy-wide panel data set from...
Provided by McGill University
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White Papers
Information Technology and Process Performance: An Empirical Investigation of the Interaction Between IT and Non-IT Resources
Jul 2008
Drawing on the resource-based view, the authors propose a configurational perspective of how IT assets and capabilities affect firm performance. Their premise is that IT assets and IT managerial...
Provided by University of Calgary
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White Papers
The Association Between Confidentiality and Integrity of Information Assets in ICT Outsourcing
Jan 2012
Information security risk is a major concern for organisations, particularly when implementing Information Communication Technology (ICT) outsourcing. Despite the benefits of ICT outsourcing, it...
Provided by International Association of Computer Science & Information Technology (IACSIT)
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White Papers
Contour Code: Robust and Efficient Multispectral Palmprint Encoding for Human Recognition
Jul 2011
The authors propose 'Contour Code', a novel representation and binary hash table encoding for multi-spectral palmprint recognition. They first present a reliable technique for the extraction of a...
Provided by University of Western Australia
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White Papers
Sustained Business Value From SAP Business Software
Feb 2012
From time to time, the author reviews academic literature about the application of technology and offer his SAP experience based perspective. Recently, the author was reviewing one of these...
Provided by R3Now.com
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White Papers
SAP Landscape Consolidation
Feb 2012
For any number of reasons many companies who run SAP end up with fragmented and piecemeal landscapes. It happens for lots of reasons: rollouts, independent Business Units, mergers and...
Provided by R3Now.com
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White Papers
Examining IT Outsourcing Service Continuance: An Expectation-Confirmation Model
Jun 2011
This paper is examines clients' decision to continue engaging their current IT outsourcing vendors. It employs the lens of expectation-confirmation theory to evaluate how prior expectation relates...
Provided by SUNWAY UNIVERSITY
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White Papers
Managing User Requirement Risks - An Exploratory Study of IS Projects From the Views of Outsourcing Teams
Jun 2011
Requirement risk is often identified as a reason contributing to Information Systems Development (ISD) project failure but has not been adequately explored in the IS literature. Requirement risk...
Provided by University of Sheffield
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White Papers
Globalization of Korean IT Companies: Opportunities and Strategies
Jun 2011
The main focus of this paper is to analyze the current IT industry and to provide relevant strategies for Korean IT companies (such as Samsung SDS and LG CNS et al.,) which want to go global. This...
Provided by Chonnam National University
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White Papers
Robust CDN Replica Placement Techniques
Apr 2009
Creating replicas of frequently accessed data objects across a read-intensive Content Delivery Network (CDN) can result in reduced user response time. Because CDNs often operate under volatile...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Failure Risk Exposure based Test Prioritization for Sequential Non-Iterative System
Dec 2011
To test a system a large number of test cases are required to be generated and applied to the candidate system. In most of the methodologies the testing phase is placed at the end of development...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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White Papers
Efficient Delay-Tolerant Particle Filtering
Apr 2011
This paper proposes a novel framework for delay-tolerant particle filtering that is computationally efficient and has limited memory requirements. Within this framework the informativeness of a...
Provided by McGill University
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White Papers
Risk Management Measures in CMMI
Jan 2012
Risk management is a continuous process that could endanger the objectives of a project or application. Risks are handled to reduce and avoid threats effects on the objectives of the project. The...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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White Papers
Using Randomized Caches in Probabilistic Real-Time Systems
Apr 2009
While hardware caches are generally effective at improving application performance, they greatly complicate performance prediction. Slight changes in memory layout or data access patterns can lead...
Provided by University of Massachusetts
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Case Studies
Avis Europe Improves Business Agility and Cost Control With Real-Time Project Planning
Oct 2010
Avis Europe is the leading car rental company, in a difficult economic environment, Avis needed to achieve better resource utilisation and reduce costs. However, a lack of transparency of costs...
Provided by CA Technologies
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White Papers
A Semiring-Based Framework for Fair Resources Allocation
Jun 2011
In this paper a general framework (based on soft constraints) to model and solve the fair allocation problem is proposed. The authors' formal approach allows to model different allocation...
Provided by Schloss Dagstuhl
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Whitepapers
Sourcing for Agile
Jun 2012
This paper will look at traditional and contemporary practices, reflect on the changing dynamics of the customer/supplier relationship, and identify priorities for evolving the role of procurement...
Provided by Emergn
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Whitepapers
Resource Management in Distributed System
Aug 2011
Resource management in distributed environment is concerned with a system in which the main aim is to make sure that a user/client can access the remote resources with as much ease as it can...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Technology and Applications
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Whitepapers
A Perspective Analysis of Green IT
Oct 2011
The unabated thirst for energy is a recurring story in news headlines every day. Some developing nations are even struggling to meet up their power requirements. Energy consumption however has...
Provided by International Research Association of Computer Science and Technology (IRACST)
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Whitepapers
A Method of Risk Assessment for Multi-Factor Authentication
Mar 2011
User authentication refers to user identification based on something a user knows, something a user has, something a user is or something the user does; it can also take place based on a...
Provided by KIPS
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White Papers
The Productivity Benefits of IT Outsourcing
Jul 2007
This paper examines the productivity benefits of IT outsourcing in the credit union industry, using data on the population of U.S. credit unions from 1992-2005. Within-credit union switching from...
Provided by University of California
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Whitepapers
Greener IT, Greener Education
Jul 2008
Because of all the trends, green IT is moving up the agenda of IT professionals in higher and further education. In a recent poll3 of members by Universities and Colleges Information Systems...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Consolidating IT - Managing the Risk
Oct 2008
The current global economic situation is driving business change. No longer are organizations resting on their laurels but are instead being proactive in achieving success which is currently...
Provided by AppLabs
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Case Studies
Transforming Communication Services With Global Sourcing
Jan 2009
The client, a leading communication solutions provider with over $35 billion revenues and more than 20 million customers, set out to transform its operations to provide next generation services....
Provided by Infosys Technologies
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Whitepapers
Outsourcing Models: Aligning Sourcing Strategy to Business Objectives
Jun 2007
The term 'Offshore outsourcing' brings to mind images of work flowing from large corporations to outsourcing service providers halfway across the globe. Perhaps the rapidly growing Indian IT and...
Provided by Infosys Technologies
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Case Studies
Sourcing on Right Tracks
Jan 2009
The railroad industry, being one of the oldest industries, has not been very progressive in terms of its IT usage. The client wanted to move from this approach to a more process-oriented model. It...
Provided by Infosys Technologies
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Case Studies
Driving Innovation With Global Sourcing
Jan 2009
Apart from its core competence in networking equipment, the client provides a range of products for transporting data, voice, and video through networks spread over various distances. The cost of...
Provided by Infosys Technologies
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White Papers
Evolution of IT Services Delivery Model
Mar 2008
With an anticipated slowdown in the global economy there is higher pressure on IT services partners to demonstrate greater value and differentiation in services. Clients are looking at their IT...
Provided by Infosys Technologies
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White Papers
Green IT Barometer: European Organisations and the Business Imperatives of Deploying a Green and Sustainable IT Strategy
Sep 2008
This white paper details the results of the first IDC-Dell Green IT Barometer. Addressing green and sustainability issues brings significant changes to the IT organisation and the infrastructure...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
Green Computing: Using IT Automation to Achieve Energy Efficiency
Mar 2008
The concern over the environmental impact of the increased usage of computing technology has far reaching ramifications on the sustainability of business IT operations. Already increasing energy...
Provided by Enterprise Management Associates
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White Papers
Mobility Solutions in Enterprise-Sized Businesses: Quantifying the Return on Investment
Feb 2008
The deployment of Line-Of-Business (LOB) applications in large enterprises is happening in earnest today as organizations recognize strong business benefits in the deployment of such solutions....
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
Conceptual Framework on Risk Management in IT Outsourcing Projects
Jan 2008
Outsourcing is becoming a trend nowadays. Malaysia also takes this opportunity and embraces in IT outsourcing. As a result, Malaysia has been ranked as the third most attractive destination for...
Provided by Universiti Teknologi MARA
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White Papers
Moderating Impact of IT Outsourcing Arrangements in a Muslim Country
May 2008
In recent years, Information Technology (IT) outsourcing continues to receive favorable acceptance to maximize organization's benefits. There is evidence showing how partnership quality plays a...
Provided by Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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White Papers
Flexibility and ROI: Asking the Right Questions
Apr 2008
Becoming a more flexible organization is not simply a new initiative-tacked on to the 'Normal' way of doing things. It asks leaders and managers to summon the personal and organizational courage...
Provided by FlexPaths
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White Papers
Offshore Outsourcing
Jun 2009
As all companies face increased competition due to globalization and unforgiving market forces, the use of offshore development partners is becoming a compelling way to maintain market share and...
Provided by Bamboo Technologies
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White Papers
Top Offshore Outsourcing Trends to Watch in 2009
Jan 2009
At the Summit TEAM International was represented by Joe Chiovarou, VP of Business Development. One of the most important outcomes that one gained from the Summit is a better understanding of the...
Provided by TEAM International
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Case Studies
Energy Company Promotes Environmental Responsibility, Lowers Costs With "Green IT"
May 2009
MidAmerican Energy Company is highly focused on environmental responsibility, including energy generation from renewable resources. The company also promotes this responsibility within IT, relying...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
IT Management in Tough Economic Times
Mar 2009
Every small and midsize business knows what these are: manually upgrading applications, applying patches, provisioning servers, fixing the same problems over and over. All too often, IT...
Provided by Symantec
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Webcasts
IT Manager Webcast: Realizing Cost Savings Through Infrastructure Modernization (Level 200)
Mar 2009
In today's economy, there is enormous pressure on IT staffs to cut costs and at the same time deliver the increased business value required for growth. Advances in platform technology and...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
IT Sustainability Insights and Imperatives
May 2009
Going green is golden. From emerging government mandates and regulation to increased consumer and press attention, the environmental movement is upon people. Terms like carbon footprint,...
Provided by Rackable Systems
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White Papers
Directors and Officers Liability for the Public Company: Managing and Minimizing the Risks
Mar 2008
For more and more enterprises that are navigating the complexities of being a publicly-traded company, it's not a question of if it makes sense to take on Directors and officers Liability...
Provided by Professional Risk Solutions
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White Papers
Why Outsource Healthcare IT Staffing
Jan 2009
The healthcare industry is ultimately the most complex in needs, data demands, regulations, market size and revenue models, core functions and outsourcing niche vendors. Regardless of the fact...
Provided by TEAM International
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White Papers
The Incredibly High Cost of Saving Money on Outsourcing
Jan 2009
Everyone is under pressure these days to cut costs, but saving money isn't worth it if people cut their own throat in the process. Find out how to avoid making a very dangerous financial mistake....
Provided by ExecutiveBrief
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White Papers
Green Meetings Made Easy
Mar 2008
There is more concern about the rapid decay of the environment today than ever before. As individuals, one has a responsibility to respond to these concerns and there is no better place to start...
Provided by Cvent
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White Papers
S&P Unveils New ERM Rating Criteria
Jan 2008
The rating agency said the potential effect of ERM on ratings will vary by industry and by the nature of the business. "While all types of firms may experience extraordinary volatility by making...
Provided by Towers Perrin
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White Papers
Event of the Century: The Rise of an Emerging Middle Class
Apr 2008
A wonderful transformation is occurring throughout India, China, Brazil, Russia, South America and the other emerging economy, which has set the table for long periods of wealth creation, and...
Provided by Cabot Money Management
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White Papers
Why Software Projects Fail: A New Assessment of Risk Practical Methods to Mitigate Project Failure
Jan 2008
Alpha Software's motivation for underwriting this white paper is simple. Developers who download and evaluate the product, Alpha Five Version 8, tells one time and again that the technology is...
Provided by Alpha Software
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White Papers
Start-Up Outsources to China 'For the Best Brains' to Implement ITO 2.0
May 2008
Harnessing the collective intelligence of people has the potential to change everything. Today, teams numbering in the thousands are creating encyclopedias, jetliners, operating systems, mutual...
Provided by Everest Partners
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White Papers
The Road Map for Innovation Success
Jan 2008
Most companies find it hard to translate innovative ideas into action, according to a recent PRTM survey of more than 200 leading executives at global organizations in a variety of industries....
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Consumer Attitudes on Health & Wellness: Can You Position Your Healthy Products for Success in an Unhealthy Economy?
Mar 2009
The Euromonitor data illustrated that while Powerful Nutrition categories will be affected by the economic downturn, they will exhibit considerable resiliency. These conclusions were consistent...
Provided by Nerac
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White Papers
Improving Employee Retention by Developing Talent
Jan 2009
The costs of recruiting and hiring employees, and low retention of valued employees, are major expenses for most organizations. It is possible to identify these general cost categories and to...
Provided by MMC Technology
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White Papers
How to Manage IT Resource Consumption: At an Application Level With TeamQuest Workloads
May 2008
In this paper, John Miecielica of Metavante, provides a step-by-step example showing how he uses TeamQuest software to analyze IT resource consumption at an application level. This key capability...
Provided by TeamQuest
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White Papers
Strategic Agility Planning for Banks
Jan 2009
Today, the banking industry needs greater agility to address challenges such as vulnerability to economic cycle vagaries, transient customer loyalties, increasing regulatory pressures, and...
Provided by Infosys Technologies
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Case Studies
Transforming Risk Management Systems
Jan 2009
Rapid expansion of its oil sands operations was causing one of the world's largest integrated oil and gas companies significant challenges with its risk management systems and practices. The...
Provided by Kaiser Associates
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Webcasts
On-Demand Webcast: How Green Is Your IT?
Sep 2008
"Green IT" combines two different goals: cutting costs by reducing energy consumption and reducing an organization's carbon footprint for policy reasons beyond saving money. According to presenter...
Provided by AT&T Intellectual Property
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Webcasts
On-Demand Webcast: Lowering the TCO for Business Applications
Mar 2009
Critical business applications require continuous care and investment. Now, more than ever, enterprises must ensure their applications scale to their changing business needs, without incurring...
Provided by AT&T Intellectual Property
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Webcasts
Green IT: Power Saving Techniques for the Endpoint
Apr 2008
Green IT, global warming, and saving the planet have quickly become a part of the daily business and IT agenda. By simple, better management of the PCs in the environment one can reduce energy...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
Improving Quality and Increasing Cost-Efficiency and Effectiveness of Care Delivery
Mar 2008
While healthcare costs in the United States are rising faster than in the rest of the world, coverage, quality of care, medical science are falling behind comparable nations. A recent Commonwealth...
Provided by Oliver Wyman
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Case Studies
International Publisher Frees Up Resources for Strategic Planning Using AutoMate
Jul 2008
Sr. Programmer/Analyst for The Globe Pequot, is responsible for making sure that IT processes are handled properly. Their website must be updated with new content in near real time. In addition,...
Provided by Network Automation
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White Papers
Overcome Cultural Differences in the Outsourcing Process
Sep 2008
Outsourcing is quickly making the transition from new business strategy, to business as usual. Most major companies have already tried outsourcing, and mid-sized companies are beginning to see the...
Provided by Outsourcing Factory
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White Papers
IT Outsourcing Reasons for SMBs
May 2008
Small businesses have always confronted with addressing their IT necessities. The lack of resources - be it staff, budgets or managing resources - have determined SMBs to start exploring the...
Provided by Biz Babble
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White Papers
A Conceptual Framework of Knowledge Transfer in Malaysia E-Government IT Outsourcing: An Integration With Transactive Memory System (TMS)
Sep 2011
Despite extensive research on knowledge transfer issues, there is a dearth of research that has explicitly focused on the role of Transactive Memory System (TMS) in enabling inter-organizational...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science Issues
-
White Papers
A Case Study of Measuring Process Risk for Early Insights Into Software Safety
May 2011
In this paper, the authors examine software safety risk in three flight hardware systems in NASA's Constellation spaceflight program. They applied their Technical and Process Risk Measurement...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
Case Studies
Infiniti Retail: National Chain of Retail Stores Moves to Hosted Solution, Reduces TCO by 25 to 30 Percent
Jul 2011
Infiniti Retail, a Tata Group company, runs an Indian retail chain for consumer electronics. Infiniti Retail want to boost IT efficiency and give employees access to unified communications, so...
Provided by Microsoft
-
White Papers
The Sustainable-Food Industry: The Power Of Green
Aug 2008
In recent years sustainable agricultural farming is gaining favor over factory farming. Their goals are to maintain environmental and economic balance. Now more than ever, people are wanting to...
Provided by Associated Content
-
White Papers
The Top 10 Problems With Outsourcing Implementations (And How to Overcome Them)
Apr 2008
One can choose blue-chip service providers and sign innovative, iron-clad, risk-sharing contracts - but still not achieve successful results if one underestimate the importance of Change...
Provided by TPI
-
White Papers
Captive Versus BPO Outsourcing
Jan 2012
Should the people outsource their domestic shared services processes or run themselves in a low-cost offshore location? Which will provide the best mix of quality, efficiency and lowest risk? Many...
Provided by ISG
-
White Papers
CHINA: Opportunities and Options for Outsourcing in China
Feb 2011
China, with 20 percent of the world's population and now the second-largest economy in the world, is no stranger to outsourcing. The country has become both a substantial buyer and seller of...
Provided by ISG
-
White Papers
Formal Benchmarking in Outsourcing Contracts: TPI's Position
Apr 2007
TPI clients have consistently stated that they must be able to measure the difference between contract pricing and prevailing market pricing. This requirement is especially crucial in longer-term...
Provided by TPI
-
White Papers
External Technology Supply and Client-Side Innovation
Mar 2011
The market for IT outsourcing has extensively grown during the last decade. At the same time the aim of external IT provision has transformed from cost-cutting to following strategic goals. For...
Provided by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen
-
White Papers
Keeping the Lights on and Building New Systems: An Examination of Information Technology Outsourcing in Services and Manufacturing
Jun 2008
Evidence shows that a large portion of IT budgets are dedicated to ongoing operations. This paper is the first, the authors know of that attempts to differentiate spending on ongoing IT operations...
Provided by Michigan State University
-
White Papers
Returns to Information Technology Outsourcing
Jan 2010
This paper extends existing IT productivity research by evaluating the contributions of spending in IT outsourcing using a production function framework and an economy-wide panel data set from...
Provided by McGill University
-
White Papers
Information Technology and Process Performance: An Empirical Investigation of the Interaction Between IT and Non-IT Resources
Jul 2008
Drawing on the resource-based view, the authors propose a configurational perspective of how IT assets and capabilities affect firm performance. Their premise is that IT assets and IT managerial...
Provided by University of Calgary
-
White Papers
The Association Between Confidentiality and Integrity of Information Assets in ICT Outsourcing
Jan 2012
Information security risk is a major concern for organisations, particularly when implementing Information Communication Technology (ICT) outsourcing. Despite the benefits of ICT outsourcing, it...
Provided by International Association of Computer Science & Information Technology (IACSIT)
-
White Papers
Contour Code: Robust and Efficient Multispectral Palmprint Encoding for Human Recognition
Jul 2011
The authors propose 'Contour Code', a novel representation and binary hash table encoding for multi-spectral palmprint recognition. They first present a reliable technique for the extraction of a...
Provided by University of Western Australia
-
White Papers
Sustained Business Value From SAP Business Software
Feb 2012
From time to time, the author reviews academic literature about the application of technology and offer his SAP experience based perspective. Recently, the author was reviewing one of these...
Provided by R3Now.com
-
White Papers
SAP Landscape Consolidation
Feb 2012
For any number of reasons many companies who run SAP end up with fragmented and piecemeal landscapes. It happens for lots of reasons: rollouts, independent Business Units, mergers and...
Provided by R3Now.com
-
White Papers
Examining IT Outsourcing Service Continuance: An Expectation-Confirmation Model
Jun 2011
This paper is examines clients' decision to continue engaging their current IT outsourcing vendors. It employs the lens of expectation-confirmation theory to evaluate how prior expectation relates...
Provided by SUNWAY UNIVERSITY
-
White Papers
Managing User Requirement Risks - An Exploratory Study of IS Projects From the Views of Outsourcing Teams
Jun 2011
Requirement risk is often identified as a reason contributing to Information Systems Development (ISD) project failure but has not been adequately explored in the IS literature. Requirement risk...
Provided by University of Sheffield
-
White Papers
Globalization of Korean IT Companies: Opportunities and Strategies
Jun 2011
The main focus of this paper is to analyze the current IT industry and to provide relevant strategies for Korean IT companies (such as Samsung SDS and LG CNS et al.,) which want to go global. This...
Provided by Chonnam National University
-
Research
IT Priorities 2012 - United States
Mar 2012
IT organizations around the world look to the United States for emerging trends in IT. It makes sense too. Many, if not most of the new technologies in IT are created there. With virtualization,...
Provided by ZDNet
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Research
IT Priorities 2012 Executive Summary - United States
Mar 2012
IT organizations around the world look to the United States for emerging trends in IT. It makes sense too. Many, if not most of the new technologies in IT are created there. With virtualization,...
Provided by ZDNet
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White Papers
Robust CDN Replica Placement Techniques
Apr 2009
Creating replicas of frequently accessed data objects across a read-intensive Content Delivery Network (CDN) can result in reduced user response time. Because CDNs often operate under volatile...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Failure Risk Exposure based Test Prioritization for Sequential Non-Iterative System
Dec 2011
To test a system a large number of test cases are required to be generated and applied to the candidate system. In most of the methodologies the testing phase is placed at the end of development...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
-
White Papers
Efficient Delay-Tolerant Particle Filtering
Apr 2011
This paper proposes a novel framework for delay-tolerant particle filtering that is computationally efficient and has limited memory requirements. Within this framework the informativeness of a...
Provided by McGill University
-
White Papers
Risk Management Measures in CMMI
Jan 2012
Risk management is a continuous process that could endanger the objectives of a project or application. Risks are handled to reduce and avoid threats effects on the objectives of the project. The...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
-
White Papers
Using Randomized Caches in Probabilistic Real-Time Systems
Apr 2009
While hardware caches are generally effective at improving application performance, they greatly complicate performance prediction. Slight changes in memory layout or data access patterns can lead...
Provided by University of Massachusetts
-
Case Studies
Avis Europe Improves Business Agility and Cost Control With Real-Time Project Planning
Oct 2010
Avis Europe is the leading car rental company, in a difficult economic environment, Avis needed to achieve better resource utilisation and reduce costs. However, a lack of transparency of costs...
Provided by CA Technologies
-
White Papers
A Semiring-Based Framework for Fair Resources Allocation
Jun 2011
In this paper a general framework (based on soft constraints) to model and solve the fair allocation problem is proposed. The authors' formal approach allows to model different allocation...
Provided by Schloss Dagstuhl
-
Whitepapers
Sourcing for Agile
Jun 2012
This paper will look at traditional and contemporary practices, reflect on the changing dynamics of the customer/supplier relationship, and identify priorities for evolving the role of procurement...
Provided by Emergn
-
Whitepapers
Resource Management in Distributed System
Aug 2011
Resource management in distributed environment is concerned with a system in which the main aim is to make sure that a user/client can access the remote resources with as much ease as it can...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Technology and Applications
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Whitepapers
A Perspective Analysis of Green IT
Oct 2011
The unabated thirst for energy is a recurring story in news headlines every day. Some developing nations are even struggling to meet up their power requirements. Energy consumption however has...
Provided by International Research Association of Computer Science and Technology (IRACST)
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Whitepapers
A Method of Risk Assessment for Multi-Factor Authentication
Mar 2011
User authentication refers to user identification based on something a user knows, something a user has, something a user is or something the user does; it can also take place based on a...
Provided by KIPS
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White Papers
White Paper on Offshore Software Development in India: Part 1
Oct 2003
This white paper talks about offshore software development in India. Outsourcing takes place when one company hands over operational responsibility for one or more of its non-core functions to...
Provided by SecureNode
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White Papers
Ask Before You Outsource: Ten Critical Questions to Put to Potential Service Providers
Jan 2001
As outsourcing becomes both more pervasive and mission-critical, the burning question is no longer “should I outsource?” but rather “what should I outsource, and to whom?” Companies must therefore...
Provided by Structure
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White Papers
Outsourcing Relationships: Why Are They So Difficult To Manage?
Jan 2002
This white paper talks about factors contributing to outsourcing relationship problems. Although the parties enter into an outsourcing agreement with the intent to work well together for a...
Provided by Everest Group
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White Papers
Metrics and Incentives in Outsourcing: Driving Peak Performance
Sep 2001
Metrics and incentives are an important component of outsourcing relationships, but as executives use outsourcing more strategically, these become more critical than ever. This research study,...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
BPMN and Business Process Management - An Introduction to the New Business Process Modeling Standard
Jan 2004
This paper provides an in-depth introduction to the new BPMN standard, illustrating how it is used to model business processes and web services. The paper also provides greater detail on how BPMN...
Provided by Popkin Software
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White Papers
The Productivity Benefits of IT Outsourcing
Jul 2007
This paper examines the productivity benefits of IT outsourcing in the credit union industry, using data on the population of U.S. credit unions from 1992-2005. Within-credit union switching from...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Factors Affecting Outsourcing for Information Technology Services in Rural Hospitals: Theory and Evidence
Feb 2008
As health information technology becomes more prevalent for most healthcare facilities, hospitals across the nation are choosing between performing this service in-house and outsourcing to a...
Provided by Louisiana State University
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White Papers
Sustainable Testing
Sep 2008
Energy prices are soaring and financial markets are feeling the squeeze as a result of the credit crunch. As a result, organizations are now forced to heavily reduce their cost to income ratio and...
Provided by AppLabs
