Given the harsh realities, many organizations are taking an urgent second look at the efficiency of core business processes and technology systems and as groups of people, they are working together on a common undertaking, regardless of their physical location, across countries, synchronously or...

Graphical User Interfaces (GUI - usually pronounced GOO-ee) have become the user interface of decision. Despite the GUI's popularity, surprisingly few programs come with an adequate interface design and moreover finding information explaining what means a good and intuitive interface, is...

The almost topical so-called Information Revolution has actually became The Knowledge Revolution. What made it possible to automate processes is not the machine - that is just the trigger. As form of reorganization of traditional work, based on centuries of experience, the well-known concept of...

Romanian Abstract: Ceea ce numim Revolutia Informationala ar putea fi de fapt inceputul Revolutiei Cunoasterii. Cea care a facut posibila automatizarea proceselor nu e masina. Ea e doar declansatorul. O forma de reorganizare a muncii traditionale bazata pe secole de experienta a devenit...

The Knowledge Age is in fact much more than a frivol assumption. A simple proof is related to the actual treatment of information. As data creation, production, storage and availability have increased, one's ability to make sense out of that data has obviously decreased. So there is a potential...

A great challenge in nowadays superior education is to anticipate a certain behavior of a student: request for additional assistance, enrollment in a particular study program, exam promotion rate, mean value of grades, transfer risk, etc. Many institutions can better deal with these student and...

The ciphering is a security technique used to protect information the way it could not be theoretically understood by any unauthorized person that tries to intercept it as stored or transmitted data. But the time and the deciphering machine are critical factors in order to practically find out...

Historically speaking, BI and GIS have followed different demands as development and also as implementation. But today, when a customer requests integrated applications expanding throughout the organization, BI and GIS application must work together. In order to facilitate this, standards and...

The Business Intelligence instruments and final solutions bring new information to their users, under the form of multidimensional analysis, statistics and forecasting, dynamic queries, analyses and reports. Thus BI products will essentially vary as cost, capacity to integrate as many as...

Beyond knowledge experience always stays. But experience frequently resides in historical data combined into information, theorems, decisional models, ideas and many other invisible intellectual assets. The way we mange this could be the essence of the knowledge management. As said, decisional...