The software systems of our company are offered under the name JobDISPO. The application areas of the different solutions are depicted in fig. 1. JobDISPO EAI solves interface problems within your company (e.g. the connection to an existing ERP-/ PPC-/CAD-/CAM-/MES-/ CAQ-/MDC-software) as well as the electronical integration of customers and suppliers (e.g. by EDI/XML). JobDISPO ERP supports th...

Minimising manufacturing cost and production time parallel to raising the quality and the shipment reliability are important challenges in every production system. In case of distributed production systems the management of the above-mentioned criteria has great signi"cance and needs a complex, co-operative handling of the problems. A new, co-operative manufacturing network model is proposed fo...

The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expresse...

SMEs can now afford enterprise-class services by adopting cloud computing. The four cases reported in the full article show that SMEs are getting great economic and business value from cloud services, including cost avoidance, cost savings, rapid deployment and scalability, management simplicity, and better security and resiliency compared to in-house IT provision. Cloud services have the poten...

This thesis presents the design and implementation of the All-or-Nothing package transform, presented by Ronald Rivest in 1997 [24], and its subsequently integration in an existing peer-to-peer backup system. This encryption mode provides a third alternate way of ensuring confidentiality, integrity and availability of backups. Resilia, the existing prototype where this extension is built on, co...

Small and Medium enterprises act as catalysts in the economic development of the developed and developing countries. Developing countries like Nigeria that require sustained economic growth in their economies must pay attention to the SME sector and harness the great potential to generate employment, improved local technology, output diversification, developed indigenous entrepreneurship and fo...

....................................................................... ix Introduction ...................................................... 1 The Economic Importance of SMEs: Separating Myth from Reality ...................................2 Policy Biases and Market Distortions.6 Implications for SME Development Strategies ...................................................... 8 Business Envi...