An effective business strategy centers on a forceful and efficient use of information technology; for this reason the ERP systems have emerged as the core of successful information management and the backbone of the enterprise information system. A valuable ERP system modernizes business...

The starting point of this research essay is a critical review of two methods to conduct a quantitative analysis of information systems security risks: 1) Management of Risk: Guidance for Practitioners and 2) a cost model based on annual loss expectancy. We are focusing on these methods with a...

Over the last 2-3 decades, investments in the new information technology (NIT) have left a deep impression on the life of organisations, that goes beyond ample differences in each organisation’s degree of automatisation. Furthermore, although the generalisation of NIT investment has not...

Small and medium-sized enterprises, besides science and technology, may be a decisive factor in transforming a national economy. SME are not only a new social pattern, but they won a well-defined position, especially due to their adaptation possibilities, the large number of jobs provided, the...

In the 21st century, intelligence tends to extend over inanimate creations of people. We speak about intelligent vacuum cleaners, intelligent machines, intelligent houses, intelligent business. Psychologists define intelligence as an aptitude to understand the relations that exist between the...

Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) increasingly consider information as an important resource. The challenge consists in using all the integration techniques of the day - whether they are information, data, application systems or even business-process integration - to build an Information...

The tone of our paper oscillates between pessimism and optimism as, although we will attempt to outline the necessity for this field of activity, we will not omit the sad state of technological growth/development in the Romanian businesses, all within the context of an accelerated/rapid...

In a world of information and people mobility, Lotus suite provided by IBM is able to provide benefits for its users. The portal solution is a collection of technologies that work together to aggregate selected information into a central location and reflects the vision about the way in which...