Distributed client/server architectures are the technological backbone of today s data centres. A usage-based allocation of infrastructure costs to business processes or users is often not possible as the necessary resource consumption measurements incur too much overhead. Reinhard Brandl...

This volume is a collection of papers on emerging concepts, approaches and ideas in information systems research. It examines theoretical and methodological issues related to both information systems development in general and the complexity of information systems as socio-technical systems. The...

This book consists of an anthology of writings. The aim is to honour Marco to celebrate the 35th year of his academic career . The book consists of a collection of selected opinions in the field of IS. Some themes are: IT and Information Systems organizational impacts, Systems development,...

The last financial crisis revealed anomalies in corporate ability to face adverse economic conditions and fast exchange of new developments. Relying mostly on accounting data for budgetary cost control, the Management found that the data, although fiscally correct and valid for strategic...