Kategoria BISAC: Computers >> Management Information Systems

-The first three chapters of the book deal with the design of wireless networks, including UMTS and Ad-Hoc networks.
-Chapters 4-6 deal with the optimal design of telecommunications networks. Techniques used for network design range from genetic algorithms to combinatorial optimization heuristics.
-Chapters 7-10 analyze traffic flow in...

This book explains major trends in business process automation and shows how new technologies and solutions are applied in practice. It outlines how process automation becomes an element of an overall process lifecycle management approach, structured on the basis of the ARIS House of business excellence and implemented through software tools like the ARIS toolset.

In order to make strategy happen there is a need for powerful management information systems. SAP focuses on the application of modern business administration concepts, e.g. Value Based Management, the Balanced Scorecard, the Management Cockpit or flexible planning methods.

The book describes the methodology and implementation of a powerful tool for enterprise management. Practical examples show how SAP Strategic Enterprise Management/Business Analytics (SAP SEM/BA) can help to improve cross functional planning, reporting and analyzing. SAP SEM/BA is a leading edge IT-solution for...

After the very successful ECC-Book on -E-conomy- this new report of the European Communication Council (ECC) analyzes from various perspectives the profound societal and economical change of the media economy, initiated by digitalization and networking. Against the background of the current media history, it highlights for example the role of the Internet hype as a pathfinder in a modified media society. The key question is concerned with how the medial future will be like. The report examines effects and new perspectives in the area of economy, society, and politics. The aspects of...

This book presents the many facets, concepts and theories that have influenced knowledge management and the state of practice concerning strategy, organization, systems and economics. The second edition updates the material to cover the most recent developments in ICT-supported knowledge management. It also provides a more coverage of its theoretical foundation including a new account of knowledge work, discusses the potentials and challenges of process-oriented knowledge management, adds a new chapter on modelling that plays an important role in knowledge management initiatives and...

After the dramatic failures of the dot coms in 2000 and 2001, many observers were quick to report on the death of electronic commerce. Investor confidence sagged, stock prices of technology firms in nearly all of the related sectors suffered. In reality, the picture is not nearly as dismal as the press would have us believe. E-commerce is not dead, but it has moved beyond its overhyped beginning stage. This book is an effort to sort through the hype, providing a realistic assessment of the state of electronic commerce today, and the important areas of opportunity and challenge for...

The purpose of the 3rd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS) was to bring together researchers, engineers, and practitioners interested in the advances and business applications of information systems. The research papers published here have been carefully selected from those presented at the conference, and focus on real world applications covering four main themes: database and information systems integration; artificial intelligence and decision support systems; information systems analysis and specification; and internet computing and electronic commerce....

Angesichts der Globalisierung suchen Unternehmen nach Moglichkeiten, veranderten Marktanforderungen gerecht zu werden. Eine Massnahme besteht in der Auslagerung von IT-Services in Niedriglohnlander, dem "IT-Offshoring." Erste Erfahrungen deutscher Firmen waren allerdings nicht durchweg positiv. Strukturelle Rahmenbedingungen des deutschen IT-Service-Marktes, kulturelle und sprachliche Unterschiede erfordern spezifische Herangehensweisen.

In den letzten Jahren hat sich die klassische Business Intelligence, die eher strategische und taktische Fragestellungen zu beantworten suchte, zum unternehmenskritischen Wettbewerbsfaktor weiterentwickelt und wird zunehmend mit operationalen Themenstellungen des Data Warehousing kombiniert. Active Enterprise Intelligence (AEI) ist der ganzheitliche Ansatz einer Informationslogistik von Teradata, der zwischen Strategic und Operational Intelligence unterscheidet, diese aber in einer integrierten Betrachtungsweise auf Basis eines unternehmensweiten Active Data Warehouses wieder...

Neben den operativen Informationssystemen, welche die Abwicklung des betrieblichen Tagesgeschaftes unterstutzen, treten heute verstarkt Informationssysteme fur die analytischen Aufgaben der Fach- und Fuhrungskrafte in den Vordergrund. In fast allen Unternehmen werden derzeit Begriffe und Konzepte wie Data Warehouse, On-Line Analytical Processing und Data Mining diskutiert, die zugehorigen Produkte evaluiert und diese Technologien eingesetzt und genutzt. Vor diesem Hintergrund bietet der vorliegende Band einen aktuellen Uberblick uber Technologien, Produkte und Trends. Als...