Many organizations implemented business analytics and intelligence solutions. Often such initiatives bring little business value after initial hype. An analysis of factors influencing the continued use of those systems is thus called for. We use organizational information processing theory to argue that while ITenabled business analytics can drastically enhance the information processing capabi...

Many traditional and new business applications work with inherently graphstructured data and therefore benefit from graph abstractions and operations provided in the data management layer. The property graph data model not only offers schema flexibility but also permits managing and processing data and metadata jointly. By having typical graph operations implemented directly in the database eng...

The joint time-frequency analysis (JTFA) is a signal processing technique in which signals are represented in both the time domain and the frequency domain simultaneously. Recently, this analysis technique has become an extremely powerful tool for analyzing nonstationary time series. One basic problem in business-cycle studies is how to deal with nonstationary time series. The market economy is...

This workshop prepares instructors to teach an “ERP & Business Processes” course using Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing (SAP) technology. It is based on my experience in teaching seven sections of this course over the last two years.

Today, with the advancement of technology, the use of tools for extracting information from video are much wider in terms of both visual power and the processing power. High-speed car, perfect detection accuracy, business diversity in the fields of medical, home appliances, smart cars, humanoid robots, military systems and the commercialization makes these systems cost effective. Among the most...