Business intelligent (BI) technologies have been adopted by different types of organizations. The banking sector is among the service industry that has been largely influenced by technology currently. This has been manifested in the way the operations of banking have evolved from the pure exchange of cheques, cash, as well as other negotiable platforms to the application of IT (information Tech...

A new tool optimizes the placement of base stations for local wireless communications at company sites. It uses the latest in constraint-based programming technology.

A main problem for electronic commerce, particularly for businessto-business applications, lies in the need for the involved information systems to meaningfully exchange information. Domain-specific standards may be used to define the semantics of common terms. However, in practice it is not easy to find those domain-specific standards that are detailed and stable enough to allow for real inter...

There has been a growing awareness of unethical practices being utilized by corporate CEOs, managers, and other members of upper management for gain of income or power. Advances in information technology have contributed significantly when making the public aware of wrong doings. Emerging from these real world cases are opportunities to prepare business communication students with transferable ...

Email is increasingly popular for business communication, often as a means of transmitting, commenting on or collectively creating documents. Although text email is easy to author, it lacks the rich expressiveness of oral media. Multimedia chronicles are introduced as conversations that weave through a fabric of documents, URLs, photographs and other resources. They consist of audio narrations ...