The success of Silicon Valley and the information economy in Ireland suggest that rural regions have the potential for e-business development. However, the successes of these two cases were not the result of technology alone. In this study, the researchers explored societal issues in the form of relevant policies and regional culture in San Joaquin Valley to investigate their influence on e-bus...

The post-9/11 war against terrorism has increased international attention to illicit drug business as a source of terrorist financing. For politicians and the media, the contentious term narcoterrorism has become fashionable. While the term implies a full merger between terrorism and drug business, the interrelationship between them is more accurately described in terms of linkages. As terroris...

Notwithstanding the arguments in favor or against business rules approach to information system development the fact remains that there are certain types of requirements, which can be best captured in the form of business rules. Once this observation is appreciated the implementation of business rules in applications emerges as the next major concern. This study reports work done in this direct...

Web applications are becoming more complex and the way to manage the complexity is to model them. This paper presents a methodology to model Web applications directly from the object-oriented fashion on the top of the event-driven programming concept. Our approach, WebForm-based Web application modeling Methodology (WWM), provides guidelines to model Web application architectures from higher po...

It is already widely known fact that e-business has been adopted across industries to better manage internal business processes as well as interfacing activities. Different types of e-business systems including E-CRM, E-SCM, ERP1/2 among others are used to manage above mentioned processes. Both in the academic and the business worlds e-business has received undivided attention for over decade n...

the aim of this research was to understand the dynamisms relating to knowledge transfer processes and practices, which exist within a business community in edinburgh scotland. the methodology used within this study was a uniquedesign methodology to include 20 in-depth interviews with participants from four local organizations. the sample group consisted of males aged between 20 and 70. the samp...

We begin with a brief explanation of how we view the current integration landscape. The paper then describes the mission and architecture of BizTalk Server, which is Microsoft’s integration server product. We conclude with some thoughts on the future of the business integration domain, which we believe is still in the early stages of its technology lifecycle. The range of target problems, proce...

The new trend of service-dominant business which produces socalled value-in-use as a competitive advantage demands rapidly changing business models and collaboration of organizations in a cross-organizational business network. As information technology nowadays largely contributes to the way of delivering business services to the customers, strong alignment between business models and informati...

This research looks to explore business process change within an institutional framework to determine its applicability in identifying determinants of success and failure in Business Process Change efforts. While there are many reasons suggested for failure, elements of the process involving the human factor are the primary area of concern for this study. An extensive literature review of 63 Bu...