"This book provides a state-of-the-art collection of opportunities and applicable practices of grid technology to sustain competitive advantage. Offering a collection of international research studies by leading experts, this book describes how grid technology can be applied to serve the purpose...

Despite the significance and potential benefits of data-exchange standards, a void remains in literature of a research publication dedicated to its barriers and critical success factors. This book establishes factors related to the implementation and dissemination of data-exchange standards....

Business managers are striving to move toward process-centric organizations, but the challenge remains in ensuring adoption of a business process culture. This book aids managers in the transformation of organizations into world-class competitors through business process applications. A useful...

Adaptive and evolutionary information systems enable both developers and users to change systems functionality. Such systems are required because of the changing nature of users' requirements. This is a critical area of research and practice for businesses that have to ensure that their...

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 book presents state of the art knowledge about decision-making support systems (DMSS). Its main goals are to help diffuse knowledge about effective methods and strategies for successfully designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating decision-making support systems, and to create an...

The evaluation of IT and its business value are recently the subject of many academic and business discussions, as business managers, management consultants and researchers regularly question whether and how the contribution of IT to business performance can be evaluated effectively. Investments...

This book addresses flexibility of both business and information systems through component technology at the nexus of three seemingly unrelated disciplines: service-oriented architecture, knowledge management, and business process management. It presents research on agile, adaptive processes and...

This book addresses the recent developments in systems maintenance research and practices ranging from technicality of systems evolution to managerial aspects of the topic, including issues such as evolving legacy systems to e-business, applying patterns for reengineering legacy systems to web,...