Background: Entrepreneurship plays an important role in the development of any country. Entrepreneurship is seen as the driving force behind economic development and the identification of opportunities and the use of resources, and entrepreneurs are those who, by recognizing opportunities, ensure success in manufacturing, business, and services. However, it should be noted that the criterion fo...

small business and entrepreneurship play critical role in stimulating economic activity, creating jobs, alleviating poverty and uplift living standards in africa. it is widely accepted that the micro and small enterprise (mse) sectors have the potential to provide a livelihood for a considerably large number of poor rural and urban women in ethiopia. women account for the larger share of the in...

Nowadays, Enterprise Information Systems are based on TPS, MIS, and DSS and organizations are maturing to make the baselines of their Business, Enterprise, and Technology architectures based on the Service Oriented Strategies and Architectures (SOSA). The traditional EIS frameworks make their Business, Enterprise, and Technology baselines on the Business Processes or Business Usecases and they ...

Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) provide solutions for implementation of lightweight Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). UDDI extension for WSRP enables the discovery and access to user facing web services provided by business partners while eliminating the need to design local user facing portlets. Most importantly, the remote portlets can be updated by web service providers from their...

As services become tradable in an Internet of Services, the simplified consumption of services becomes a major requirement, especially when integrating services into standard enterprise systems. A key challenge for enterprise system providers is to deliver standard business applications with a rich functional spectrum. At the same time, dedicated flexibility and extensibility features need to b...

Through the current explosion of the Internet, service consumers expect advanced Internet services become more customizable and easy to use. So, Service Providers must be able to deploy and manage such services, reducing the time to market of its services while drastically improving the Service Quality. However, the current Internet technology is lacking when it comes to developing and deployin...

In this paper, we propose an extension to the SOA model by adding a new component called a Service Representative. This SOA component, which simulates an enterprise agent, is modeled by a generic software agent that stays at the client site to be employed by different service providers. Moreover, different types of web services are required to model actual services in the business domain. Conse...

Telemedicine has been acknowledged to improve the quality of healthcare. However, many telemedicine services fail beyond the pilot phase. A literature review on business model components for telemedicine services was conducted. Based on specified inclusion criteria, 22 publications were included in the review. To facilitate the analysis of literature, a business model framework with value as it...

In this paper, we propose an extension to the SOA model by adding a new component called a Service Representative. This SOA component, which simulates an enterprise agent, is modeled by a generic software agent and stays at the client site to be employed by different service providers. Moreover, different types of web services are required to model actual services in the business domain. Conseq...

In the next few years the landscape of the information and communications technology (ICT) industry will be subject to many changes. New and advanced ICT services will be brought to the market, offered over large and highly distributed infrastructures consisting of a heterogeneity of information systems and communication networks, each owned by different parties. The business of many companies ...