Over the past decade, information security has been one of the most sensitive areas of concern discussed at the senior management level for a majority of the world s leading organizations across all industries. In today s globally interconnected economy, with increasing reliance on technology to achieve competitive advantage amongst other objectives, information security is and has been by far ...

Understanding the contributions that the laboratory can make in product/process development, process improvement, market surveillance and general business is key to the pharmaceutical business today. Poor laboratory practice yields compliance issues, increased cost, increased cycle time and delayed product introductions. This paper covers key areas of customer satisfaction, the role of quality ...

Today, companies are evolving towards business process oriented organization. This approach relies on integration and collaboration between interdependent activities that must be redesign and managed to increase the performance of the global system. After some consideration about integration, collaboration and business process re-design, this paper will present a case study that concerns the re...

In 1952, Nobel Laureate Harry Markowitz, . . . , demonstrated mathematically why putting all your eggs in one basket is an unacceptably risky strategy and why diversification is the nearest an investor or business manager can ever come to a free lunch. That revelation touched off the intellectual movement that revolutionized Wall Street, corporate finance, and business decisions around the worl...

Thanks to a slew of popular new books, many executives today realize how biases can distort reasoning in business. Confirmation bias, for instance, leads people to ignore evidence that contradicts their preconceived notions. Anchoring causes them to weigh one piece of information too heavily in making decisions; loss aversion makes them too cautious. In our experience, however, awareness of the...

Today, service orientation is a well established concept in modern IT infrastructures. Web services and WS-BPEL as the two key technologies handle large structured data sets very inefficiently because they process the whole data set at once. In this demo, we present a framework to build standing business processes. Standing business processes rely on item-wise data set processing, exploit pipel...

At Coverys, we do more than insure against risk. We combine medical professional liability insurance with industry-leading business intelligence, education and risk management tools to increase patient safety and help improve outcomes for policyholders. So you can move from risk-averse to risk-prevention. To learn how Coverys uses business intelligence to improve clinical, operational & financi...

Business intelligence derived from data warehousing and data mining has become one of the most strategic management tools today, providing organizations with long-term competitive advantages. Business school curriculums and popular database textbooks cover data warehousing, but the examples and problem sets typically are small and unrealistic. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview...

The main task of IT-specialists in the last decades was to develop applications supporting different business functions and processes. For today the enterprises are well equipped with IT-devices and applications, but in most cases they run separately in various business units and/or on different platforms, they work with data stored not only redundant but also in other forms. Consequently there...