Business Intelligence (BI) initiatives are challenging tasks, implying significant costs in their implementation. Therefore, organizations have adopted prudent policies requiring a financial justification. A business-driven methodology is recommended in any BI project initiative, project scoping...

Business Intelligence (BI) initiatives are challenging tasks, implying significant costs in their implementation. Therefore, organizations have adopted prudent policies requiring a financial justification. A business-driven methodology is recommended in any BI project initiative, project scoping...

Mutaţiile din domeniul tehnologiei informaţionale şi al metodelor de abordare a sistemelor s-au reflectat şi în ciclul de viaţă al dezvoltării sistemelor, fie prin schimbarea etapelor acestuia, fie prin modificarea opticii de parcurgere a lor. Spre exemplu, odată cu abordarea...

Low liquidity of cloud markets can result in market instability and inefficiency, preventing the successful implementation of ubiquitous computing on demand. To circumvent this issue, it has been suggested to channel demand and supply into a limited number of standardized services. These...

Service markets allow users to discover, purchase, and utilize services offered on a specific platform. As service platforms grow in number of users and variety of offerings, it raises the question of whether this phenomenon continues to benefit users. Based on a literature review, the paper...

During the last decades, the ICT industry imposed new tendencies concerning the communization of software platforms and solutions; thus a continuously growing phenomenon has been developed, namely that of open source software. In the present context, when companies have to manage large databases...

Cloud computing markets face challenges, such as a large variety of different resource types in the market. A large variety of resource types results in a low number of matches of ask and bids. Consequently, the market has a low liquidity, which is economically inefficient and can lead to market...

This paper examines Virtualization Technologies which are popular in modern financial management systems. Many researchers and financial systems administrators have researched the techniques related to utilizing server computational resources. Currently there are many technologies for this...

This paper discusses best practices for validation for an upgrade or new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. Topics covered include Introduction to ERP Systems, Upgrading ERP Systems, Implementation ERP Systems, ERP Financial and System Document Reports, SQL Command Scripts and Database...

Business process management systems (BPMS) are specialized software systems, suitable for the management and automation of complex, dynamically changing processes, which are implemented in various business units with the participation of a great number of users and the use of diverse information...