Adoption of cloud-based systems has been relatively modest — regardless of significant marketing push by major public cloud providers. The cloud-based model utilizes distributed information technology services accessible over networks. The networks can be internal part of organizations'...

Cloud computing adoption by organizations has been minor despite the initial optimism. The primary concerns obstructing adoption of cloud-based services are security, loss of control, and inadequate legislative. In a cloud-based model, information technology services are distributed and accessed...

Organizational portals are vital parts of knowledge-intensive organizations. They play several critical roles: a) provide a platform for deployment of web-based services; b) envelop distributed internal resources; and c) present a centralized access to resources and services. Portal services...

This article investigates the use and the satisfaction derived from e-learning training by sales representatives of commercial banks in France.The research carried out among these representatives concerns a banking training scheme which was followed from work or from home. The analysis of the...

Microfinance is a sector where MIS is a strategic need for up scaling to get both economic sustainability and social outreach and performance. It should help in lowering transaction costs and interest rates. A study of the MIS for this sector is therefore crucial. This paper studies different...

As technology has advanced, many have wondered whether (or simply when) artificial intelligent devices will replace the humans who perform complex, interactive, interpersonal tasks such as dispute resolution. Has science now progressed to the point that artificial intelligence devices can...

Public policy debates about online child safety have raged since the earliest days of the Internet. Concerns about underage access to objectionable content (specifically pornography) drove early "Web 1.0" efforts to regulate the Internet, and it continues to be the topic of much discussion...

Though the concept of e-commerce is not so old, it has become vary familiar as well as quite popular in Bangladesh for the causes of its bright prospect and application simplicity. The study shows that e-commerce has a wide range of significant impact on business elements including finance,...

Consumer digital access services — internet, mobile phone, cable TV, and streaming — accounted for over 2 percent of U.S. household consumption in 2018. We construct prices for these services using direct measures of volume (data transmitted, talk time, and hours of programming). Our price...