A Cloud database management system is a distributed database that delivers computing as a service instead of a product. It is the sharing of resources, software, and information between multiple devices over a network which is mostly the internet. It is expected that this number will grow significantly in the future. As a result, there is a growing interest in outsourcing database management ta...

Today, outsourcing is recognized as one of the most effective strategies in the business world. In this regard, outsourcing of business processes is considered to be one of the most common forms of outsourcing. The purpose of this study is to provide In-depth and quantitative analysis of the benefits of BPO in a dairy plant in Iran and how these benefits affect the willingness of senior plant m...

introduction: hospitals are required to focus on core activities which are inevitable affair. the sensitivity of the monitoring and supervision mechanism as well as preserving and enhancing the quality of outsourced services prevent new problems in this area. methods: this was a descriptive and applied study which was done by case study (pretest-posttest) method. outsourcing nursing services of...

We establish the context of maintenance outsourcing of mission critical applications by Fortune 500 organizations. We present the results of empirical studies that were conducted at Syntel, a NASDAQ listed application management and e-business solutions company, on 46 software maintenance projects that belonged to various lines of business on the IBM mainframe platform using an automated data c...

Abstract Since studies on privacy-preserving database outsourcing have been spotlighted in a cloud computing, databases need to be encrypted before being outsourced the cloud. Therefore, couple of k NN query processing algorithms proposed over database. However, existing are either insecure or inefficient. this paper we propose algorithm via secure two-party computation Our preserves both data ...

Developing countries are increasingly relying on Information and Communication Technology (ICTs) for their socio-economic development. Many countries have achieved faster gross domestic product (GDP) growth through information technology (IT) outsourcing, which is now largely recognized as a strategic management practice that can provide a competitive advantage in business. The East African Com...

The transition from manufacturing outsourcing to software engineering outsourcing can be an appealing and challenging activity for all enterprises. A theoretical framework is proposed based on four items in this case study. The present study identifies problems in both manufacturing outsourcing and software engineering outsourcing. Relationships between these two sets of industrial problems are...

Outsourcing databases, i.e., resorting to Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), is nowadays a popular choice due to the elasticity, availability, scalability and pay-as-you-go features of cloud computing. However, most data are sensitive to some extent, and data privacy remains one of the top concerns to DBaaS users, for obvious legal and competitive reasons. In this paper, we survey the mechanisms th...

Results: Majority (59%) of hospitals surveyed were rural; 41% were urban. More than half (n=23; 72%) reported to be outsourcing at least one support service. There was a significant difference in the proportion of rural and urban hospitals outsourcing and those not outsourcing (p=0.0033). While outsourcing, rural hospitals were more likely to report challenges with the availability of vendors (...

Despite the experience with IS outsourcing for decades, numerous outsourcing arrangements fail in practice. Likely reasons for such failures can be ascribed to divergent expectations and an inappropriate governance of the outsourcing relationship. The objective of this paper is to explore different types of outsourcing relationships and their configuration depending on the underlying expectatio...