Control and Risk are the two parts of the coin. Risk management is the process of identifying vulnerabilities and threats to operating system resources to achieving business objectives and deciding what counter measures to take in reducing the lowest level of risk. The increased use of computer & communications system by IT industries has increased ...
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is the use of technologies and services across an enterprise to enable the integration of software applications and hardware systems. Many proprietary and open projects provide EAI solution support. EAI is related to middleware technologies. Other developing EAI technologies involve Web service integration, service-oriented architecture, content integration and business processes. Intercommunication ...
In today’s post-modern era shopping has become a social and leisure activity, reducing the number of cognitively planned purchases made by consumers. Some view impulse buying as an “Act of freedom” occurring within restricted situations. However in this type of behavior cool, rational, information processing choices are uncommon and rare, and most of the decisions ...
FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) enterprises are rather unfamiliar with the use of e-commerce in China. The paper points out the necessity of integrating e-commerce for FMCG enterprises, starting with the analysis of four factors of developing e-commerce. With the analysis of advantages and deficiencies of FMCG enterprises developing e-commerce, the paper discusses objective requirement ...
IT service support management (ITSSM) tools offer a tighter integration of functions that correlates with the activities of the broader IT support organisation. IT service desk tools themselves are no longer sufficient for maintaining business productivity. IT organisations selecting these tools should use this Magic Quadrant to evaluate vendors regarding technical requirements and ongoing infrastructure ...
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software presents a frame for organizations to better utilize their process and business. Early generation of ERP systems utterly focused on infrastructure renewal and creating efficiencies in back office operations around key functional areas such as finance and production management. These systems, while useful, did not address the mission critical issues ...
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Tomorrow’s virtualized data center demands more agile, efficient, and scalable networking solutions. This white paper reviews data center trends and describes HP solutions for building cost-effective, advanced data center networks that meet the evolving performance, reliability, and agility demands of the 21st century. HP FlexNetwork networking solutions help enterprises build unified, virtualization-optimized data center networks ...
In Total Cost Comparison: VMware vSphere vs. Microsoft Hyper-V, learn why the total cost of ownership (TCO) is the ultimate measure to compare IT infrastructure platforms. TCO incorporates the purchase and support costs of the platform along with the ongoing operational and management expenses. Subscribe to the Developer Insider Newsletter From the hottest programming languages ...
Cloud computing, and specifically Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), offers many benefits to an enterprise. Cloud computing has matured into a production grade model for the enterprise. When designing cloud infrastructure architecture, multiple design methodologies are available. Selecting the right methodology is critical, with the integration and optimization of components being a key to success. ...
The Internet has become an indispensable tool for today’s businesses. Every business organization is using it in some way or another these days. Marketing managers who fail to use the Internet in in formulating their companies’ marketing strategy will be at a disadvantage. This paper discusses how the Internet is impacting the conduct of a ...
Microsoft Office 365 offers some pretty impressive benefits – from reduced IT costs to 99.9% scheduled uptime. But before you rush to take advantage of its increased functionality, you need a solid migration strategy. In this Quest white paper, learn the fastest and most effective ways to migrate your Lotus Notes applications to SharePoint Online. ...
In this paper, the authors are to examine the importance of customer relationship proneness in explaining the formation of satisfaction, interpersonal trust, commitment and behavioral intentions. Hypotheses were tested using Structural equation modeling nearby a sample of 412 Tunisian bank customers. Exploratory and confirmatory tests were performed in order to pre-test the scales used to ...
Much of the research on automated Web Service Composition (WSC) relates it to an AI planning task, where the composition is primarily done offline prior to execution. Recent research on WSC has argued convincingly for the importance of optimizing quality of service, trust, and user preferences. While some of this optimization can be done offline, ...
The authors promote the use of transactional attributes for modeling business processes in the service-oriented scenario. Transactional attributes have been introduced in Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) to decorate the methods published in Java containers. Attributes describe “Modalities” that discipline the reconfiguration of transactional scopes (i.e., of caller and callee) upon method invocation. An original element of ...