In this article, we address transparent Damage Quarantine and Recovery (DQR), a very important problem faced today by a large number of mission/life/business-critical applications and information systems that must manage risk, business continuity, and assurance in the presence of severe cyber attacks. Today, these critical applications still have a “good” chance to suffer from a big “hit” from ...

Agility has become a key organizational capability today as businesses face an uncertain and volatile environment. Enterprise systems, a key component of IT infrastructure in a majority of orrganizations today, have delivered cost efficiencies, control and consistent execution. Using a case study approach, this research reports on the investigation of the influence of enterprise system-enabled ...

This paper presents an industrial validation of a semantic-mediation architecture that enables business-to-business (B2B), standards-based interoperability between heterogeneous legacy applications. The architecture was implemented using a state-of-the-art semantic-mediation toolset for design-time and run-time integration tasks. The design-time tools supported a domain ontology definition, mes...

Information Security is very important in e-Business. Previous IT governance frameworks have not given the connection between IT governance and e-business security sufficient attention. This paper identifies various levels of governance followed by a focus in the roles of information technology (IT) governance with reference to information security for today’ s electronic business (e-business) ...

Based on a review of 27 research papers related to social media analytics (SMA), we develop an integrated, unifying definition of Business SMA, providing a nuanced starting point for future Business SMA research. Our definition goes beyond being entirely customer-focused, encompasses both the external and internal organizational environs, and goes beyond intelligence gathering to also accommoda...

China has recently experienced an increased demand for Western-style marketing and business practices due in part to a burgeoning economy and recent entry into the WTO. Market-based education has diffused rapidly across China as Chinese universities have started to imitate their Western counterparts and have entered into joint venture agreements with them. First, increased demand for Western-st...

Recent research activities in the field of TEL have created a new awareness for intelligent learning infrastructures. To foster the usage of innovative TEL in the workplace, it must be integrated into organizational business operations and aligned with their learning requirements. Being the semantic interface of organizational ICT infrastructure, business processes represent the potential linka...

Over the past decade, there has been a lot of work in developing middleware for integrating and automating enterprise business processes. Today, with the growth in e-commerce and the blurring of enterprise boundaries, there is renewed interest in business process coordination, especially for inter-organizational processes. This paper provides a historical perspective on technologies for intraan...

Today process-oriented approaches to solve business challenges are state of the art. However most business process management methods focus on increased performance only from the firm’s perspective and neglect the increasing importance of value co-creation between the firm and the customer. Modern business process management methods not only need to concentrate on the internal performance of pr...

Today the intangible assets are the capital of knowledge and are the most important and the most valuable resource for organizations. All employees have knowledge independently of the kind of jobs they do. Knowledge is thus an asset, which influences business operations. The objective of this article is to identify knowledge continuity as an objective of business continuity management. The arti...