...http://www.hrpayrollsystems.net/hris/ http://www.successfactors.com/content/dam/successfactors/en_us/resources/white-papers/cloud-when-and-why-wp.pdf The Cloud When & Why? WHITE PAPERSUCCESSFACTORS / WHITE PAPER HOW CHROS DELIVER BUSINESS IMPACT Achieving CIO Goals in the Cloud Introduction CIO’s jobs are changing. These days it’s not only about running IT efficiently, but also about supporting core business strategies and helping create strategic advantage by reducing cost and driving innovation. This means CIOs are under pressure to build infrastructure that can move and adapt at the same rapid pace as the rest of the business. They need to support geographical expansion, mergers, and product or service innovation while at the same time reducing costs. In other words, CIOs are being asked to do more for the business with fewer resources. Every year, the same cycle repeats: reduce total cost, move the cost structure from fixed to variable cost, and free up resources for innovation by reducing operating expenditures. Initially, companies adopted outsourcing and Cloud solutions primarily to reduce costs and preserve resources for strategic initiatives. More recently, however, Cloud applications have been used to support the strategic agility today’s businesses need. In addition, having one single code-base across all their customers allows modern Cloud application vendors to very quickly leverage innovations and distribute product improvements...
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...Correspondence concerning this paper should be addressed to Cesar Campana, 2240 SW 50 Av, Fort Lauderdale Fl 33317. E-mail: cc1604@nova.edu Background Enterprise Resource Planning integrates internal and external management information across an entire organization, embracing finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service, customer relationship management, etc. ERP systems automate this activity with an integrated software application (Hossein, 2004). The ERP is “Web enabled”, meaning that they work using Web clients, making them accessible to all of the organization’s employees, clients, partners, and vendors from anytime and anyplace, thereby promoting the BU’s effectiveness (Motiwalla & Thompson, 2012). The fundamental advantage of ERP is that integrating the myriad processes by which businesses operate saves time and expense. Decisions can be made more quickly and with fewer errors. Data becomes visible across the organization (Vikki, 2010). The disadvantages comes from the tight budget organizations allocate to personnel training thus resulting inadequate use of ERP systems and poor testing and implementing of changes. The experience and skill of the personnel has a major influence on the efficiency of the ERP systems. (Mutt, Nick. N.d). There are several organizations that choose ERP as an option. They have to go through several stages to reach the successful and final stage, which will be finalizing the process of the implementation including stress testing and...
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...indigohelp.com DBM 502 Individual Assignment: Implementing an Enterprise DBMS DBM 502 Individual Assignment: Comparing Database Software PART 2 OF 2 DBM 502 Individual Assignment: Comparing Database Software PART 1 OF 2 DBM 502 Individual Assignment: Data Dictionary DBM 502 Individual Assignment: Database Security DBM 502 Learning Team Assignment: DBMS Implementation Plan ………………………………………………… DBM 502 Individual Assignment Comparing Database Software PART 1 OF 2 For more classes visit www.indigohelp.com Individual Assignment: Comparing Database Software Create a list of criteria that can be used to compare database software. Create a table that uses the list of criteria to compare and contrast Microsoft® Access, SQL, DB2, and Oracle®. Write a 2- to 3-page paper that discusses Refer to “Standards for Written Work” and “Standards•your results. for Presentations” in your Program Handbook, which can be accessed through the student Web site. ………………………………………………… DBM 502 Individual Assignment Comparing Database Software PART 2 OF 2 For more classes visit www.indigohelp.com Individual Assignment: Comparing Database Software Create a list of criteria that can be used to compare database software. Create a table that uses the list of criteria to compare and contrast Microsoft® Access, SQL, DB2, and Oracle®. Write a 2- to 3-page paper that discusses your results. Refer to “Standards for Written Work and Standards “t Web site. ………………………………………………… DBM 502...
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...Enterprise DBMS DBM 502 Individual Assignment: Comparing Database Software PART 2 OF 2 DBM 502 Individual Assignment: Comparing Database Software PART 1 OF 2 DBM 502 Individual Assignment: Data Dictionary DBM 502 Individual Assignment: Database Security DBM 502 Learning Team Assignment: DBMS Implementation Plan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- DBM 502 Individual Assignment: Comparing Database Software PART 1 OF 2 (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Individual Assignment: Comparing Database Software Create a list of criteria that can be used to compare database software. Create a table that uses the list of criteria to compare and contrast Microsoft® Access, SQL, DB2, and Oracle®. Write a 2- to 3-page paper that discusses Refer to “Standards for Written Work” and “Standards•your results. for Presentations” in your Program Handbook, which can be accessed through the student Web site. ------------------------------------------------------------------- DBM 502 Individual Assignment: Comparing Database Software PART 2 OF 2 (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Individual Assignment: Comparing Database Software Create a list of criteria that can be used to compare database software. Create a table that uses the list of criteria to compare and contrast Microsoft® Access, SQL, DB2, and Oracle®. Write a 2- to 3-page paper that discusses your results. Refer to “Standards for Written...
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...SYLLABUS BSA/385 Introduction to Software Engineering Copyright ©2016 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course introduces the fundamental, logical, and design considerations addressed during system and application software development. It provides a background in applications software development and testing techniques through a combination of theory and application. Course Dates May 03, 2016 - Jun 06, 2016 Faculty Information Name : Email Address : Phone Number : ROBERT MASCARENAS (PRIMARY) (505) 884-4399 Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents (both located on your student website): • Academic Policies University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Academic Resources • Course Software Instructions Click the link for additional course software requirements. Note: We do not recommend trial software versions because they expire. SupportingMaterial Course Software • College of IS&T Resources Instructions Click the link to review the College of IS&T Resources. SupportingMaterial College of IS&T Resources • College of IS&T Website Instructions ...
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...Applications Implementation Week 2 Individual Assignment The following individual assignments refer to Boardman Management Group, Baderman Island Resort and Smith Systems Consulting, several of the Virtual Organizations. A link to the Virtual Organizations can be found on the Course Materials page. Boardman Management Group manages the Baderman Island resort. They are considering whether to upgrade the word processing software currently in use at the resort or to purchase a new word processing software application. Boardman plans to hire Smith Systems Consulting to help them analyze their options and to prepare an implementation plan. Submit a 3-4 page plan for how Boardman Management Group should utilize Smith Systems Consulting as an outside consultant for this project. Include a discussion of why the specific elements of your plan are important, how they will achieve the results you intend and why they were chosen over alternative methods. Week 3 Individual Assignment Boardman Management Group has decided to upgrade the Microsoft Word, word processing software for Baderman Island Resort. Smith Systems Consulting has provided Boardman with an analysis of the factors that need to be considered in upgrading the software. Using the analysis prepared by your Learning Team during Week Two, submit a Request For Proposal (RFP) that would be sent to software vendors seeking their proposals for the purchase and implementation of the upgraded software application...
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...Unternehmensberatung im IT-Umfeld 611 CRM Evaluation An Approach for Selecting Suitable Software Packages Ina Friedrich1, Jon Sprenger2, Michael H. Breitner2 1Accenture GmbH Campus Kronberg 1, 61476 Kronberg ina.friedrich@accenture.com 2Institut 1 für Wirtschaftsinformatik, Leibniz-Universität Hannover Königsworther Platz 1, 30167 Hannover {sprenger|breitner @iwi.uni-hannover.de} Introduction Customer Relationship Management (CRM)1 has been discussed in the literature since the nineties. IT evaluation on the other hand dates back to the eighties starting with a more contemporary approach (Farbey et al. 1999, p. 191). As reported by earlier works, the success rate of CRM implementation projects is up to today still not satisfactory (Becker et al. 2009; Finnegan and Currie 2009). Reasons for failing the expectations of involved parties are diverse, but can be summarized under the three dimensions: people, process and technology (Figure 1). Due to the described quality problems and the speed of evaluation results becoming outdated, new CRM solutions or updated versions of established products continuously enter the market. CRM solutions range from simple address and activity management applications to integrated software packages linking front office and back office functions (Chen and Popovich 2003, p. 673). Hence, there exists a multitude of different characterizations for CRM. For the context of this paper a definition by Goldenberg (2000) is used, who describes CRM as a cross-functional...
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...fashion and was able to keep records up to date. Good Health Medical Services has grown over the years from seeing an average of twenty patients a week to over two hundred patients a week. The staff has also grown and now has over ten specialty physicians that range from Pediatrics to Oncology. The record keeping staff has grown as well going from one person to three people. There have been several cases of misfiled information or lost or missing files and the directors want to lessen some of these factors, save money and move into the current technology world of Electronic Medical Records (EMR). Purpose/ Business Need: The directors feel that there are several benefits to be had by moving from paper files to electronic files. The benefits of EMR are less paper files, savings on paper, less maintenance to the files and manpower being put into looking for the files. Plus, many times a patient can be seen by more than one physician at the facility. If the file is electronic that can assist the physician in updating files. With today’s technology the physicians can update files from cellular phone or other mobile device. There is less time spent on manually...
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...Quality Management in the Software World Abstract This paper examines total quality management (TQM) against the backdrop of the software world. First an overview of the background and evolution of total quality management will be detailed, then an article will be examined that discusses total quality management on an organizational level, and how it can be beneficial. After that an empirical study is reviewed that discusses the relationship between TQM and software quality. Finally this paper is wrapped up with a look at how TQM development methods should be introduced and the different ways in which is benefits both the employee and customer. Keywords: tqm, total quality management, software total quality management, tqm software methodologies Total Quality Management in the Software World According to Dale, Dewhurst, and Martínez-Lorente (1998), Total quality management is now being applied by a considerable number of companies and the topic itself is now a popular subject of many books and papers. While total quality management began to be used in the mid 1980’s (Dale et. al., 1998) it wasn’t until the late 1980’s it became a part of quality related language and even later still until it was put to use in the world of software and I.T. (information technology). This paper will examine the following total quality management topics: 1. What is the background and history of total quality management? 2. What value does TQM add to software quality? 3. What,...
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...Patient Flow Metrics Paper Southern New Hampshire University HCM - 500 INTRODUCTION Emergency Rooms and the waiting rooms associated to these emergency rooms are subject to many conversations of inefficiency. Dealing with these inefficiencies are two massive challenges that are facing the healthcare industry today. The wait times and dissatisfactions associated with going to a emergency room, definitely need to be curbed and addressed. Even when the system has patient flow that is simplified with pre determined appointments, and served by a single doctor there are various factors that are related to inefficiency. This flow does get a lot more complication with walk ins 24 hours a day in an emergency room setting. There are also no single doctor that serve the patient and there are no pre determined processing times. Doctors generally are rotated, while at work are constantly interrupted due to the nature of the emergency, and related to to other medical consultation. EHR (Electronic Health Records) are being installed and implemented in a number of hospitals and healthcare units, to achieve the goal of improving the quality and decreasing the costs.National benchmarking for quality in the ED setting places significant focus on timeliness, safety and efficiency standards, most directly reported as overall length of stay (LOS), door to doctor times and left without being seen, using them as proxies for quality measures that are difficult to collect, such as time to analgesia...
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...http://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2000 Recommended Citation Light, Ben; Holland, Christopher P.; Kelly, Sue; and Willis, Karl, "Best of Breed IT Strategy: An Alternative to Enterprise Resource Planning Systems" (2000). ECIS 2000 Proceedings. Paper 180. http://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2000/180 This material is brought to you by the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) at AIS Electronic Library (AISeL). It has been accepted for inclusion in ECIS 2000 Proceedings by an authorized administrator of AIS Electronic Library (AISeL). For more information, please contact elibrary@aisnet.org. search Best Of Breed IT Strategy: An Alternative To Enterprise Resource Planning Systems Ben Light Information Systems Institute, University of Salford - b.light@salford.ac.uk Christopher P. Holland and Sue Kelly. Manchester Business School - c.holland@fs2.mbs.ac.uk Karl Wills IT Consultant * Abstract - Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software has become the dominant strategic platform for supporting enterprise-wide business processes. However, single vendor ERP software systems have been criticised for not meeting specific organisation and industry requirements. An alternative approach ‘Best of Breed (BoB)’, integrates components of software from multiple standard package vendors, and in some cases custom components. The objective is to develop enterprise systems that are more closely aligned with the...
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...success factors in ERP system implementation K. Curko1, D. Stepanic2, M. Varga3 Abstract— In order to successfully implement an ERP system it is necessary to properly balance critical success factors. By researching what the critical success factors in ERP implementation are, why they are critical, and to what extent they are relevant to users, consultants and suppliers, this paper seeks to identify critical success factors in ERP implementation and to understand the impact of each factor on the success of ERP system introduction. This paper lists ten critical success factors (CSF) providing two points of view: strategic and tactical. These are: top management support, a business plan and vision, top management support, change management program, project management, implementation strategies, project team, business process modeling and minimal customizations, monitoring and performance evaluation, software development, testing and troubleshooting, legacy systems. Keywords— ERP implementation, critical success factors, IT project, management I. INTRODUCTION Complex IT projects, such as developing and especially implementing ERP systems often fail. Many studies indicate a small success rate in terms of exceeding the time limit, budget and poor functionality of the new system. Successful ERP projects bring great benefits to the company, but can also be devastating to organizations that fail to deliver. The aim of this paper is to further investigate the...
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...EDUCATION Ph.D. Information Science & Technology, Syracuse University (Sept 2004- Sept 2010) Dissertation Topic: Leadership perceptions and behaviors in self-managing virtual teams (Open Source Software Development Teams). Chair: Dr. Robert Heckman Committee Members: Dr. Kevin Crowston, Dr. Nora Misiolek, Dr. Derrick Cogburn M.B.A. Specializations in Supply Chain Management, and Global Entrepreneurship, Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY. 2001-2003) GPA: 3.8 / 4.0 M.S. Information Management, Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY, 2000-2002) GPA: 3.9 / 4.0 B.S. Business Administration, Middle East Technical University (Ankara, 1996-2000) GPA: 3.7 / 4.0 JOURNAL ARTICLES Eseryel, U. Y., Eseryel, D. (Submitted). Leading by Doing Work: Leadership in Self-Managing Virtual Teams. Crowston, K., Howison, J., Chengetai, M., & Eseryel, U. Y. (2007). A Balancing Act: The role of face-to-face meetings in technology-supported self-organizing distributed teams. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communications, 50(3), 185-203. Crowston, K., Li, Q., Wei, K., Eseryel, U. Y., & Howison, J. (2007). Self-organization of teams in free/libre open source software development. Information and Software Technology Journal, Special Issue on Qualitative Software Engineering Research, 49(6), 564-575. Nicholson, S., Sierra, T., Eseryel, U. Y., Park, J., Barkow, P., Pozo, E., & Ward, J. (2006). How much of it is real? Analysis of paid placement in Web search engine results. Journal...
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...for newspaper publishers to increase their revenues. Also includes an evaluation of business strategies and activities regarding Chicago Tribunes’ major competitors. This report covers some recommendation for further strategic positioning and investments to create a competitive advantages. In presenting this report, I want to pay tribute to the work of every one of my colleague throughout the strategic department and all journalists within this newspaper. It is a pleasure to find strategies and solutions to keep our business alive and develop further goals. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at any time. Yours sincerely, Zora Bouadjenak; MBA Strategic Advisor Chicago Tribune 1 HOW DOES THE IMPLEMENTATION OF APPS AND E-SUBSCRIPTIONS EFFECT NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS REVENUES AND THEIR STRATEGIES FOR FURTHER BUSINESSES? A case for Chicago Tribune Newspaper Lectures name: Date of submission: Author’s name: ID: Mr. Chong Hock CHUA 12. September 2011 Zora BOUADJENAK 12643509 2 1 Executive Summary Newspaper publishers are facing the new digital era with different strategies. Chicago Tribune needs to...
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... long range planning www.lrpjournal.com Implementing the Balanced Scorecard in Greece: a Software 5 Firm’s Experience Alexandros Papalexandris, George Ioannou à and Gregory P. Prastacos The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) is a relatively new approach to strategic management and performance measurement and control, which has generated substantial interest in the academic and industrial communities. This paper presents the experience from the implementation of a specific BSC model at a large software development company in Greece. The study illustrates and evaluates the main obstacles and shortcomings, as well as the critical success factors that characterise such BSC projects, while offering managerial insights and guidelines for similar implementations. Q 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Introduction The shortcomings of traditional management control and performance measurement motivated the development of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC), a management system incorporating all quantitative and abstract measures of true importance to an enterprise.1 The two key elements of the BSC are: (a) Clustering of similar types of measures into groups (perspectives); (b) Limiting the measures and linking their values to improve clarity, allow for transparent communication throughout the organisation, and effectively manage change. 5 An earlier and compact version of this paper was presented at the IEEE International Engineering Management Conference, St John’s College, Cambridge...
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