Over the last few years Grid computing has attracted considerable attention from the industry, because it offers opportunities for new on-demand business services for enterprises. In this article, we depict the current trend of enterprises to source Grid services offered by third-party utility providers on a use-on-demand, pay-peruse basis, thus leading to faster IT response to changing busines...

In the last few years, RFID technology has become a stimulating and rapidly expanding area of research and development. The technology’s ability to precisely identify objects at low cost and without line of sight creates new and emerging opportunities for RFID applications that could become an integral part of our daily lives. Mobile RFID services for the Internet of Things can be created using...

As e-business is invading the service industry and the public sector, there is a need for a serviceflow management of those processes, which consist of a sequence of interrelated sub-services. Making use of the potentials of internet applications, serviceflow management aims at providing these service in an efficient manner, at improving customer relationship management in the field of tension ...

This paper presents an infrastructure and a mechanism for achieving dynamic Inter-enterprise workflow management using e-services provided by collaborative e-business enterprises. E-services are distributed services that can be accessed programmatically on the Internet, using SOAP messages and the HTTP protocol. In this work, we categorize e-services according to their business types and manage...

Offshore outsourcing of administrative and technical services has become a mainstream business practice. Increasing commoditization of business services and growing client experience with outsourcing have created a range of competitive service delivery options for client firms. Yet, data from the Offshoring Research Network (ORN) suggests that, despite increasing market options and growing clie...

These developments are a threat to TV service providers, who have built up their businesses by delivering content to the TV set in the living room – a business model based on linear channels, PPV events, VoD movies, catch-up TV, and start-over TV. This model doesn’t fit the IP-based multiscreen world, and traditional providers are facing revenue losses from declining subscription figures and th...

INTRODUCTION Critical business and user decisions greatly affect the development of the Internet infrastructure. Because the Internet marketplace is competitive and decentralized, an Internet Service Provider or other business' Internet interconnection agreements determines user performance, cost structure, and ultimately profitability. As the Internet evolves from best effort services to integ...

OBJECTIVE To identify and examine medication therapy management (MTM) practice and compensation models currently being used by public and private sector programs, develop a model for payers to consider in compensating pharmacists for the provision of MTM services, and review how a relative value-based payment system based upon Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes might apply to MTM servic...

Purpose This Solution Brief highlights the issues facing both communications equipment providers and telecommunications carriers as they strive to deal with a changing competitive landscape of hybrid players, legacy systems and customer churn. Case studies from the biggest and best telecommunications companies show you how IT and Business have used BPM (Business Process Management) disciplines ...

Through the rise of cloud computing, on-demand applications, and business networks, services are increasingly being exposed and delivered on the Internet and through mobile communications. So far, services have mainly been described through technical interface descriptions. The description of business details, such as pricing, service-level, service consumers. Also, third-party intermediaries, ...