Cases on Information Technology Planning, Design and Implementation brings together a variety of real-life experiences showing how other companies and organizations have successfully, or not so successfully, planned, designed, and implemented different applications using information technology....

Presents the theoretical and empirical research on the business value of information technology, as well as the use of management of information technology for increasing organizational performance and gaining strategic advantages. The betterment of information technology payoff and information...

Commercial systems built today are increasingly using XML technologies for storing any amount of text or data. This book collects the latest research for academicians and practitioners that describes the use and synergy between data structure technologies. It explores and investigates various...

Data warehouses and online analytical processing (OLAP) are emerging key technologies for enterprise decision support systems. They provide sophisticated technologies from data integration, data collection and retrieval, query optimization, and data analysis to advanced user interfaces. New...

The advancement of computing and communication technologies have profoundly accelerated the development and deployment of complex enterprise systems, creating an importance in its implementation across corporate and industrial organizations worldwide. This handbook addresses the field of...

"This book presents the most current research on existing and emergent trends on conceptual modeling and information systems engineering, bridging the gap between research and practice by providing a much-needed reference point on the design of software systems that evolve seamlessly to adapt to...

"This book provides an in-depth view into the critical contribution of IT service management to IT governance, and the strategic and tactical value provided by effective service management"--Provided by publisher.

1. Introduction to very large IT projects -- 2. The field of project management -- 3. Why implement very large IT projects -- 4. Methodologies for implementing VLITPs -- 5. IT governance -- 6. IT security -- 7. Human resource issues in VLITP -- 8. Ergonomics of very large IT projects -- 9....

This book considers transformations within the context of computing science and information science, as they are essential in changing organizations. It not only considers transformations of structured models, rather, the transformation of instances (i.e. the actual contents of those structures)...

"This book provides organizations with insights into practical and applied solutions, frameworks, technologies and practices on technological and organizational factors in information security"--Provided by publisher.