Enterprises are investigating how they can benefit from the increasing availability of cloud technologies. As many business capabilities are already supported by IT, the priority is identification of business capabilities with supporting IT that would be a potential beneficiary of moving to cloud-based solutions. This paper introduces a heuristic methodology which identifies cloud-compatible bu...

Cloud computing is a new technology widely studied in recent years. Now there are many cloud platforms both in industry and in academic circle. How to understand and use these platforms is a big issue. A detailed comparison has been presented in this paper focused on the aspects such as the architecture, characteristics, application and so on. To know the differences between open source and clo...

Microlearningbecomespopularinonlineopenlearninganditiseffectiveandhelpfulforlearningin mobileenvironment.However,thedeliveryofopeneducationresources(OERs)isscarcelysupported bythecurrentonlinesystems.Inthisresearch,theauthorsintroduceanapproachtobridgethegap byprovidingadaptivemicroopeneducationresourcesforindividuallearnerstocarryoutl...

Although the benefits of service orientation are prevalent in literature, a review, analysis, and evaluation of the 30 existing service analysis approaches presented in this paper have shown that a comprehensive approach to the identification and analysis of both business and supporting software services is missing. Based on this evaluation of existing approaches and additional sources, we clos...

Supply of software services according to SaaS concepts may be efficiently realized with SOA technology. The necessity of security mechanisms is undisputable and companies are confronted with the challenge to adapt and enhance the existing security infrastructure to “SOA-ready.” Within this presentation an automated security solution will be introduced, which, following the SaaS concept, realize...