Software Product Lines is an important strategy to minimize costs and time-to market, and maximize quality and productivity of the software development. It involves the management of variabilities and commonalities among several applications, which increases its complexity compared to...

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...

Objective - To identify the relationship between the e-Government web-based applications adoption and citizens' continuance intention in Southern Malaysia and to determine which element in the predictor variable that has more influence towards the outcome variable based on a theoretical...

Distributed Ledger form the basis of Blockchain applications. A Sovereign Distributed Ledger (SDL) will be a Sovereign Authority designed, built, maintained and secured Distributed Ledger. The SDLs will allow for the hosting of Blockchain and Non-Blockchain Distributed Ledger based Public...

A critical component of the solution to online masquerade attacks, in which criminals create false web pages to obtain financial information, is the hierarchy of public key certificates. Masquerade attacks include phishing, pharming, and man-in-the-middle attacks. Public key certificates ideally...

Few enterprise operational areas present as much inherent risk or prove as difficult to govern as Information Technology (“IT”). To be successful, IT governance requires enterprise commitment at the very top. Boards and executive management need to extend governance, already exercised over...

This paper investigates the implementation of a government decree, which establishes a legal background for the monopolistic pricing of a state-owned company services on the emerging market of air ambulance services in Russia. Being based on firsthand empirical data the research unveils the...

With the continuing growth of the public cloud service market, enterprises increasingly face more complex and more frequent decisions to optimize their IT infrastructure. When it comes to the question of on-premise versus cloud deployment and provider selection in the latter case, cost figures...