Electricity market reform is in progress in China, and the operational performance of power grid enterprises are vital for its healthy and sustainable development in the current electricity market environment. In this paper, a hybrid multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) framework for operational performance evaluation of a power grid enterprise is proposed from the perspective of sustainabilit...

The development of Web 2.0 and its social application lead to the appearance of Enterprise 2.0. Based on the discussion of self-organization of enterprise knowledge system in Enterprise 2.0, this paper built a super-network model integrated the interpersonal network and the knowledge object network as well as the definition of the super-network structure entropy. Take the knowledge governance a...

According to recent statistical data and empirical research, the importance of service in manufacturing industry has been significantly strengthened and the melting tendency between relative service and manufacturing process is obvious. More and more manufacturing enterprises have adopted differentiation service strategy to acquire competitive advantage for high profit. Commercial products whic...

In a mass customization and sustainability context, enterprises are endeavouring to provide customized products, gain new markets while enhancing social, economic and environmental sustainability. Moreover the performance of the firm needs to be measured in order to control the progress towards the above mentioned goals. At this point, all performance inductors have to be considered in order to...

for enterprise data centers. The ability to consolidate infrastructure and dynamically manage workloads delivers high value, both through cost savings and increased business agility. However, not all virtualization solutions are created equal. Performance, scalability, security, and cost can vary significantly between competing solutions. The degree of openness and standards-adherence also vari...

Distributed enterprise applications store client-specific data in application server memory, in a data structure commonly referred to as the session. The backing up of this session data (in a process known as session persistence) is essential for load balancing between application servers and for managing server failures, and hence is critical for the success of distributed enterprise applicati...

Enterprise search is an area of increasing importance that has not received the attention it deserves. In today’s information-rich business environment, the ability to find effectively what you are looking for is vital, and what tools to provide for enterprise search is thus a decision of strategic importance. In this exploratory study, we investigate enterprise search from an IT governance per...

The theory of corporate social responsibility holds that a company must not only fulfill its economic responsibility of making profits for its shareholders, but also undertake broad legal, ethical and philanthropic responsibilities. The notion of corporate social responsibility is most vulnerable to the argument that fulfillment of social responsibility will affect the company’s financial perfo...

Enterprise search is an area of increasing importance that has not received the attention it deserves. In today’s information-rich business environment, the ability to find effectively what you are looking for is vital, and what tools to provide for enterprise search is thus a decision of strategic importance. In this exploratory study, we investigate enterprise search from an IT governance per...

We evaluate the performance of distributed file systems (DFS) under the IO load produced by enterprise applications. The evaluation is carried out using a trace-based approach that allows for recording file system accesses of an application and re-playing the trace on an arbitrary file systems under test. This method avoids the overhead that is associated with installing and maintaining complex...