The increasing pace of evolution in business computing services leads enterprises to outsource secondary operations that are not part of their core business. The cloud computing market has been growing over the past few years and, consequently, many cloud companies are now offering a rich set of features to their consumers. Unfortunately, those cloud players have created new services with diffe...

Companies increasingly recognize that IT plays a significant role in their current and future business strategies, and IT departments increasingly need to justify their role in terms of contributions to business goals. Currently, little experience exists on how to effectively create this missing business-IT link. In 2010, ECOPETROL, a global player in the oil and gas industry, launched an initi...

we examine contract choices in the provision of “software-as-a-service” (SaaS), which is a business innovation that transforms information technology (It) 88 SuSArlA, BAruA, AND whINStON resources into a continuously provided service. we draw upon agency theory and modularity theory to propose that one of the central challenges in service disaggregation is that of knowledge interdependencies ac...

Because of reusability advantage many business applications are developed using service oriented architecture (SOA). Using Web services we can integrate different modules of business logic. Main components of SOA based applications are service provider, service consumer and service repository. Communication between these components is achieeved by exchanging SOAP messages, which are XML documen...

In the 1990s, the broad diffusion of the internet allowed firms such as Amazon, eBay, and Google to invent new digital business models. Since then, research has formalized recurring configurations as digital business model types, still frequently being used to analyze existing business models and develop new ones. Now, the next wave of digital transformation – enabled by ongoing improvements in...

Meditec is a German manufacturer of instruments for surgeries. The company is quality leader in this sector and supplies many German and international hospitals. However, the opportunities for differentiation against competitors decrease continuously. New competitors from emerging markets are challenging the market position of established companies in this industry. Meditec is therefore forced ...

a r t i c l e i n f o A bi-level decision support system (BDSS) is proposed for a normative road network design with uncertain travel demand. A bi-level decision support model with link capacity expansion is developed to simultaneously reduce travel delay to road users and mitigate vulnerability of road network. A tractable solution scheme for BDSS is developed. Due to some hierarchy in decisio...

Innovation is the key to growth, without it, most organization would forever be stuck doing the same old things the same old way. New products, new services and new ways of doing business would never emerge. Entrepreneurship activities brings about business innovation with resultant development in enterprises which also serves as a panacea to economic growth in developing countries. Entreprene...

Jorge Cardoso, Carlos Pedrinaci and Pieter De Leenheer Open semantic service networks: modeling and analysis Dieter De Smet and Wolfgang Molnar Strategic Reorientation and Influences on Business-IT Alignment: A Case Study in a Luxembourgish Financial Services Provider Pieter De Leenheer, Jorge Cardoso and Carlos Pedrinaci Governance and Ontological Aspects of Business Semantics in Compliant Ser...