Abstract The cloud is nowadays widely used for storing and managing data, leveraging scalable flexible IT infrastructures while guaranteeing continuous data application availability from anywhere at any time. market characterized by a rich diversified offering that usually comes as predefined configurations (plans), which can be adopted to outsource collections. Such plans exhibit different fea...

BACKGROUND Changes in health programs in Iran have led to an increase in administrative costs. One cost-saving option available to hospital administrators is to outsource administrative services. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to explore the attitudes of hospital staff towards outsourcing health information management services in advance of a decision being taken, to assist healthcare organisatio...

Businesses can change their business structure by merging with other companies or, on the other end of the spectrum, by smoothly outsourcing some of their business processes to other more specialized parties. In this paper, we will concentrate on conceptual modelling of merging and outsourcing information systems. Merging of a collection of information systems will be defined as the constructio...

Information technology (IT) outsourcing has been recognized as a new methodology in many organizations. Yet making an appropriate decision with regard to selection and use of these methodologies may impose uncertainties and risks. Estimating the occurrence probability of risks and their impacts organizations goals may reduce their threats. In this study, an extended analytical hierarchical proc...

Community-based software development is a promising model to help reduce the pressures such as development costs, human resources access, new market development, and building business competencies. But the big concern is how to ensure the quality of the outsourcing service. In this paper, a service quality evaluation method for community-based software outsourcing process has been proposed. A s...

Past studies in the IT outsourcing area have examined the management of IT outsourcing relationships from a variety of perspectives. The present paper extends this line of research. In this study, we take a multi-theoretic perspective to explore factors that determine the duration of continuing IT outsourcing relationships between vendor and client firms. Five ex-ante and two expost factors tha...

Foreign outsourcing, otherwise known as off-shoring, has become a matter of intense public debate and great concern in the United States presidential contest, especially in light of the large job losses experienced by U.S. workers since George Bush became president. Yet, there is a lack of good data on foreign outsourcing since the early 1990s. This paper presents updated measures of foreign ou...

Data outsourcing is today receiving growing attention due to its benefits in terms of cost reduction and better services. According to such paradigm, the data owner is no more responsible for data management, rather it outsources its data to one or more service providers (referred to as publishers) that provide management services and query processing functionalities. Clearly, data outsourcing ...

Previous studies indicate that prior experience of the outsourcer has an impact on the actual outsourcing evaluation. However, the question where this experience derives from remains unanswered. In an empirical analysis with Germany's 200 largest banks it is empirically shown that the level of experience indeed has a significant impact on senior management's attitude towards outsourcing. Furthe...