The IS/IT has played a key role in the improvement of business strategies and in changing skills and organizational capabilities. However, the promised benefits of these investments have been difficult to monitor, implement and account for. Benefits Management (BM) is becoming an increasingly...

Dynamic capabilities theory (DCT) emerged as a leading framework in the process of value creation for firms. Its core notion complements the premise of the resource-based view of the firm and is considered an important theoretical and management framework in modern information systems research....

The internet has become essential and is the basis of cloud computing and will continue to be in the future. Best resource allocation is a process of placing the resources at their minimum cost/time and minimizes the load to a virtual machine. In this article, the authors propose an algorithm to...

Due to the widespread use of cloud services, the need for proper and dynamic distribution will redouble the resources. One of the most complex problems in cloud environments is resource allocation such that on one hand the resource provider should obtain maximum utilization and on the other hand...

Assigning multiple virtual network resources to physical network resources, called virtual network embedding (VNE), is known to be non-deterministic polynomial-time hard (NP-hard) problem. Currently software-defined networking (SDN) is gaining popularity in enterprise networks to improve the...

The availability of powerful, worldwide span computing facilities offering application scalability by means of cloud infrastructures perfectly matches the needs for resources that characterize Big Data applications. Elasticity of resources in the cloud enables application providers to achieve...

Energy efficiency of the wireless networks has drawn more and more attentions due to the requirement of the green communication. The base station sleeping strategy and resource allocation can effectively improve the energy efficiency for the wireless networks. Meanwhile, renewable energy is...

IT projects often fail to be completed on time, on budget, within scope, with the required functionality and error free. The reasons for project failure are numerous and have been well studied and identified in the literature; however, most studies assume that project managers are completely...

Cloud computing an adoptable technology is the upshot evolution of on demand service in the computing epitome of immense scale distributed computing. With the raising asks and welfares of cloud computing infrastructure, society can take leverage of intensive computing capability services and...

Competitive advantage (CA) arises from a firm's attributes that allow one firm to create better customer value than others. Organizations of all sectors of the economy believe that sustainability is a way to achieve a differential advantage. CA is recognised as being the major cause for...