This chapter introduces a new idea of using software agents for supporting ad hoc virtual enterprises and similar forms of temporal businessto-business collaboration. It seems that current information and telecommunication technologies, based on information interchange and local data processing, are not flexible enough to deal with modern business requirements, especially dynamic and temporal b...

The purpose of this paper is to build a model of factors that can be used in business process reengineering of procurement process by simplifying important variables through eCommerce. According to the results, a model of factors named “business data processing simplicity” has been developed. It has been conducted through Principal Component Analysis and the results present that those big indus...

Business Intelligence (BI) is an important key in the initiatives of many organizations. BI has developed over the years and the most businesses need to take it to the next level of maturity and improvement can be enabled by SAP HANA. In this paper I presented the evolution of Business Intelligence industry, what others capabilities enterprises still seek and how Business Warehouse on SAP Hana ...

Supply chain management (SCM) and Business-to-Business (B2B) E-commerce has attracted significant attention in recent years as the availability of a ubiquitous network linking most businesses has created new opportunities for electronic integration between firms. Companies need to, however, be cognizant of the inter-organizational relationships and the requirements of business processes in thei...

Relational database systems are still the first choice for the realization of business application systems. They are used as operational databases to persist business process data or as the basis for data warehouse systems. In recent years, the NoSQL-movement proposed a number of new non-relational data stores because of changing requirements of Web 2.0 applications and related limitations of r...

Business-to-business electronic commerce (B2B EC) opens up new possibilities of trade. For example, new business partners from around the globe can be found, their offers can be compared, even complex negotiations can be conducted electronically, and a contract can be drawn up and fulfilled via an electronic marketplace. However, a sophisticated data management is required to provide such facti...

today, every enterprise needs to have its own business model. a business model explains what exactly the costumers want, how they want it and how the company can satisfy them. this can actually leads to the industry's competitive advantages and help the enterprises to revive them. in the late decades the prevalence of e-commerce leads it to be known as a tool to organize the business and s...

Quando se entra no universo dos negócios atualmente, surgem várias técnicas e ferramentas que são usadas na área corporativa para auxiliar melhorar a gestão, lidando com os dados, intuito de facilitar o fluxo dessas informações, duas Big Data Business Intelligence, cujos termos muitas pessoas ainda confundem, tanto nas suas definições, quanto nos seus objetivos, por causa das similaridades entr...

Business clusters play an important role in developing and improving the economic performance of countries and in promoting the welfare of people. Business development service providers (hereafter referred to as, BDSP) have a considerable role in providing specialized services pertinent to the conditions of active enterprises in clusters and in promoting their performance level in order to impr...