‘Name-Your-Own-Price’ (NYOP) retailers, such as Priceline, offer an alternative distribution channel for service providers in the travel industry such as airlines, hotels, and car rental companies. Our research employs an analytical model to identify and understand key tradeoffs driving the decision by a service provider to employ an NYOP channel, assuming that such a channel is available. This...

Cloud computing is a dynamic computing platform that is used world-wide for computation by all the high level and low level companies like Amazon, Google etc. Cloud Computing provides the users to access their data and save it irrespective of their location. Many companies and clients rent virtual machines for running their applications and saving their highly confidential data. However this pl...

Cloud computing is a most fascinated technology that is being utilized by IT companies to reduce their infrastructure setup cost by outsourcing data and computation on demand. Cloud computing offer services in three basic models such as SaaS, PaaS and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Where IaaS is one of the fundamental cloud service model in which cloud provider offers Virtual Machines (VMs...

The importance of logistics has changed enormously in the last few decades. While logistics was formerly one of the core functions of most companies, logistics or at least parts of their functions are nowadays outsourced to external logistic service providers in terms of contracts. As a result of this shift new business models like the fourth party logistics provider emerged, which designs, pla...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In spring 2001, Veropoulos, the third biggest retailer in Greece and three of its top suppliers together with a service provider, started a pilot implementation to experiment with collaborative store ordering. The pilot involved the ordering from the retailer’s stores to their central warehouse as well as to the direct-store-delivery suppliers. The four companies together with...

Currently many organizations and companies are facing potential threats to their data management systems and these security concerns provide a basis to conduct research in this particular area. In this article, the authors are proposing an algorithm comprising digital signature with auto generated token ID allotted by the cloud service provider during registration of client for verification and...

Outsourcing information system development has become a common practice in companies. Many contributions were proposed for dealing with the management of such projects, and relationship between client and vendor. But little is known concerning the way to manage the change of service provider in an on-going project. Our study concerns the transition from an outgoing service provider to an incomi...

A churn consumer can be defined as a customer who transfers from one service provider to another service provider. Recently, business operators have investigated many techniques that identify the customer churn since churn rates leads to serious business loss. In this paper, a hybrid technique has been used which combines K-means clustering with Genetic Programming to predict churners in teleco...

Companies of all industrial sectors depend increasingly on their IT infrastructure and therefore demand more features, security and reliability regarding the provided IT services. Consequently, a user– and quality–oriented service management is desperately needed to fulfill the posed requirements. The previously developed MNM service model contributed to this research area by specifying a forma...

Due to the widespread use of cloud services, choice service providers has become an important problem for companies. It is a strategic decision-making companies determine most suitable provider that can meet their expectations and needs. Choosing effective firm depends on numerous criteria based firm's strategies, needs resources. Therefore, in present study, integrated decision model Rank Orde...