A Cloud database management system is a distributed database that brings computing as a service beyond a product. A cloud computing system with database management system is the allocation of required resources, software and information between different devices over a network which is basically on the internet. It is to be expected that this number will arise incomparably in the future. Accord...

Despite the abundant anecdotal evidence on the benefits of information technology (IT) outsourcing, whether the stock market reacts favorably to such a governance choice remains a puzzle. In line with the recent emphasis on a valuebased approach to evaluating firms, we adopt an event-study method to examine the market-impacting effects of IT outsourcing. Our analysis, based on a sample of 58 IT...

The College of Business (COB) at Northern Washington University (NWU) needs new data systems to provide reports and information both internally and for its external accrediting body. Dewitt Brown, COB’s associate dean, has been tasked with determining COB’s needs and developing recommendations for sources of systems. COB could develop the systems internally since it has database expertise among...

© Security of Relational Databases in Business Outsourcing Ersin Uzun, Bryan Stephenson HP Laboratories HPL-2008-168 database watermarking, fingerprinting encryption For most corporations the volume of sensitive data used by outsourcing providers continues to increase. As the number of different entities having access to a database increases, it gets harder to prevent and trace-back data leakag...

Outsourcing is the remedy for many enterprises to improve their efficiency. However, to be able to assess the potential of one’s own as well as the external providers’ services, detailed information about the IT infrastructure and services is needed. In currently predominant IT Service Management Frameworks the so-called Configuration Management process provides an information nexus that is imp...

In the outsourcing spatial database mode,data owner entrust query operations to a third party data server. Due to the third party data server could be affected by external attack or existence of its own insecurity,it is very important to establish an effective mechanism to verify the query results. This paper proposes a new query authentication method based on Apriori algorithm,which will retur...

The amount of information held by organizations’ databases is increasing very quickly. A recently proposed solution to the problem of data management, which is becoming increasingly popular, is represented by database outsourcing. Several approaches have been presented to database outsource management, investigating the application of data encryption together with indexing information to allow ...

logistics outsourcing has been at the top of the management agenda during recent decades. the selection of the proper service supplier is the key to success in logistic outsourcing firms could select the right supplier by applying appropriate methods and selection criteria. in this paper a new framework is proposed on the basis of weighted additive fuzzy programming approach and linear programm...

In this paper, we seek to analyse the main drivers of firms’ choice in terms of outsourcing and/or offshoring of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) services. As globalisation is a new way firms choose to organize their activities, a broad literature focuses on the outsourcing and the offshoring of activities (Grossman and Helpman, 2005; Marin and Verdier, 2003). Even if a lot of p...