Always-On Enterprise Information Systems for Business Continuance: Technologies for Reliable and Scalable Operations

ISBN13: 9781605667232|ISBN10: 1605667234|EISBN13: 9781605667249|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616924638

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-723-2

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Bajgoric, Nijaz . Always-On Enterprise Information Systems for Business Continuance: Technologies for Reliable and Scalable Operations. IGI Global, 2010. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-723-2

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Bajgoric, Nijaz . Always-On Enterprise Information Systems for Business Continuance: Technologies for Reliable and Scalable Operations. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2010. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-723-2

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In order to stay competitive, modern businesses need to adopt an enterprise information system or an integrated IT platform that operates on an “always-on” basis in order to remain resilient, continuous, operational, adaptive, and responsive in this increasingly competitive and changing business environment.

Always-On Enterprise Information Systems for Business Continuance: Technologies for Reliable and Scalable Operations provides an in-depth and scientifically-based analysis of “always-on” enterprise information systems. Valuable to academicians, researchers, and practitioners, this advanced publication identifies methodological frameworks for designing and developing efficient systems and effective strategies for “always-on” implementation.

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Chapter 1

IT Governance and IT Risk Management Principles and Methods for Supporting 'Always-On' Enterprise Information Systems (pages 1-16)

Mario Spremic

Most organizations in all sectors of industry, commerce, and government are fundamentally dependent on their information systems (IS) and would quickly cease to function should the technology (preferably information technology–IT)...

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Chapter 2

Risks Evaluation and IT Audit Aspects of Business Intelligence Solutions (pages 17-40)

Andrea Ko

Many organizations are struggling with a vast amount of data in order to gain valuable insights and get support in their decision-making process. Decision-making quality depends increasingly on information and the systems that...

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Chapter 3

Collaborative Systems for Decision Making for Disaster Preparedness and Response, Department of Information Systems (pages 41-57)

Deidre Hahn, Jessica Block, Mark Keith, Ajay Vinze

Real time collaboration solutions are critical during a large scale emergency situation and necessitate the coordination of multiple disparate groups. Collaborative technologies may be valuable in the planning and execution of...

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Chapter 4

Principles and Experiences: Designing and Building Enterprise Information Systems (pages 58-77)

Mehmet S. Aktas

The data requirements of e-business applications have been increased over the years. These applications present an environment for acquiring, processing, and sharing data among interested parties. To manage information in such...

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Chapter 5

Optimization of Enterprise Information Systems through a 'User Involvement Framework in Learning Organizations' (pages 78-90)

Sumita Dave, Monica Shrivastava

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) today is being adopted by business organizations worldwide with a view to maximize their capabilities. But more often than not the expected outcomes are not delivered due to inaccurate calculations...

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Chapter 6

Always-On Enterprise Information Systems with Service Oriented Architecture and Load Balancing (pages 91-108)

Serdal Bayram, Melih Kirlidog, Ozalp Vayvay

In today’s world, it is essential for a business to provide a seamless and continuous service to its customers. Such an always-on service is required, not only for the strong competitive environment but also because of the fact that...

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Chapter 7

Challenges of Data Management in Always-On Enterprise Information Systems (pages 109-128)

Mladen Varga

Data management in always-on enterprise information systems is an important function that must be governed, that is, planned, supervised, and controlled. According to Data Management Association, data management is the development...

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Chapter 8

Continuous Database Availability (pages 129-148)

Drazena Tomic, Brano Markic

In today’s business environment, it is usual that data relevant to business is stored on different hardware, inside different databases, different data warehouses, inside as well as outside of the organization. Accuracy, quality...

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Chapter 9

Some Aspects of Implementing Always-On IT-Solutions and Standards in Banking Sector: The Case of Croatia (pages 149-174)

Mirjana Pejic Bach, Martina Draganic

The growing competition in the banking sector, resulting in growing demands of the customers, requires from the banks a 24 hour availability of services. The technological development is accompanied by the increase in technologically...

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Chapter 10

Leagility in Manufacturing and Procurement: A Conceptual Framework (pages 175-186)

Sumeet Gupta, Miti Garg, Mark Goh, Maya Kumar

A combination of lean and agile concepts, leagility has gained ground in recent years. While it has found widespread applications in the domain of manufacturing, other domains such as procurement can also benefit from the principles...

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Chapter 11

The Business Knowledge and Information Policy Model (pages 187-204)

Mujgan San

As every technological development, information and communication technology also offers new life patterns to human beings. One of them is related to business and its environment. In this context, the main problem is how to manage...

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Chapter 12

Information Supply Chains: Restructuring Relationships, Chains, and Networks (pages 205-217)

Hina Arora, T.S. Raghu, Ajay Vinze

Information supply chains (ISCs) take an information-centric view of supply chains, where information is not only used to support supply chain operations, but also to create value for customers and enable business partners to...

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Chapter 13

Sustaining the Green Information Technology Movement (pages 218-230)

Miti Garg, Sumeet Gupta, Mark Goh, Robert Desouza

Green computing paradigm is a term used to describe a movement in the field of information technology whereby users and information technology professionals are adopting ‘less environmentally destructive’ practices to mitigate the...

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Chapter 14

Swift Trust and Self-Organizing Virtual Communities (pages 231-251)

Stephane Ngo Mai, Alain Raybaut

Numerous communities of experts supported by firms tend nowadays to form an important part of corporate social capital. Composed of free will agents, those communities aim at creating knowledge through cognitive interactions and...

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Chapter 15

Authority and Its Implementation in Enterprise Information Systems (pages 252-264)

Alexei Sharpanskykh

The concept of power is inherent in human organizations of any type. As power relations have important consequences for organizational viability and productivity, they should be explicitly represented in enterprise information...

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Chapter 16

A Procedure Model for a SOA-Based Integration of Enterprise Systems (pages 265-276)

Anne Lammer, Sandy Eggert, Norbert Gronau

Enterprise systems are being transferred into a service-oriented architecture. In this article we present a procedure for the integration of enterprise systems. The procedure model starts with decomposition into Web services. This is...

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Chapter 17

An Adaptive E-Commerce Architecture for Enterprise Information Exchange (pages 277-293)

Youcef Aklouf, Habiba Drias

This article contributes to the design of a generic framework for providing a new way to exchange information between enterprises. This concept is a well addressed in the context of B2B standards. Many organizations are increasingly...

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