Virtual team provider is an emerging business on the Internet. It allows people to work together distributed across space, time and organization. Tools like BSCW or SourceForge allow an organization to host virtual teams. Although, these tools deliver functionalities, they lack required features (e.g. security, dependability and quality of service) to make them commercially acceptable. In this ...

With the aim of developing information systems better fitted to the main challenges raised by globalisation, we propose an ontology for the modelling of interoperable and flexible business processes. We distinguish three types of Activities a Process can be made of: whereas Procedures are defined by a sequence of Tasks and Services by a Service Description, Interactions are specified by a Goal ...

Wireless and mobile communications, as well as the Internet have already got worldwide deployment and are still developing at a rapid pace. Services provided by wireless communications have extended from the simple voice service to multimedia services. It is envisaged that in the next generation wireless networks, heterogeneous wireless access technologies will coexist forming integrated networ...

What is the impact of process documentation on the relationship between operational alignment and IT provider flexibility in IT outsourcing relationships? Drawing on a sample of application management outsourcing relationships from the German banking industry, we analyze the connections between interorganizational alignment of IT and business domains and IT provider flexibility. Results show th...

INTRODUCTION Critical business and user decisions greatly affect the development of the Internet infrastructure. Because the Internet marketplace is competitive and decentralized, an Internet Service Provider or other business' Internet interconnection agreements determines user performance, cost structure, and ultimately profitability. As the Internet evolves from best effort services to integ...

Business Process Management (BPM) importance and benefits for organizations to focus on their business processes is nowadays broadly recognized, as business and technology areas are embracing and adopting the paradigm. The Service Oriented Computing (SOC) paradigm bases software development on services to realize business processes. The implementation of business processes as services helps in ...

Business information services are intermediaries that collect, collate, package and distribute information of value to professional users. We consider two technologies that such intermediaries may use for delivering information. First, a packaged design that uses physical media like CD-ROMs to distribute information. Second, an online service that delivers such information via the Internet or o...

Cloud computing is a rising field providing computation resources. It represents a new paradigm of utility computing and enormously growing phenomenon in the present IT industry and economy hype. The companies which provide services to customers are called as cloud service providers. The cloud users (CUs) increase and require secure, reliable and trustworthy cloud service providers (CSPs) from ...

VPN services has been around for decades but it did not get wide-spread usage until recently. A combination of new VPN technologies, network technologies and business communication requirements are the driving force behind the VPN services. This survey gives an overview of the recent approaches of VPN solutions and compare their scalability and flexibility aspects. The survey also categorises V...