Today, Internet has become an essential part of peoples’ daily lives. As the advancement of Internet technology, the phenomenon of digital inequality has received substantial attention. This study extended research on digital inequality to the field of mobile business. The paper aimed to investigate the impact of digital inequality in the use of mobile business supporting features in China. To ...

Today, enterprises are forced to continuously optimize their business as well as service processes. In this context the process-centered alignment of information systems is crucial. The use of business process intelligence (BPI) tools offers promising perspectives in this respect. However, when using BPI tools one has not only to look at potential benefits but at costs as well. Therefore, most ...

Today, practitioners often have to face a number of challenges during the standardization of business processes, and some processes can be standardized easier (with less effort) than others. Our previous research has shown that major drivers of successful business process standardization are the characteristics respectively the complexity of a particular business process. In order to minimize s...

Business intelligence (BI) is a key topic in business today, since it is focused on strategic decision making and on the search of value from business activities through empowering a “forward-thinking” view of the world. From this perspective, one of the most valuable concepts within BI is the “knowledge discovery in databases” or “data mining,” defined as “the process of discovering meaningful...

Today’s competitive business climate dictates that companies derive more information out of their databases. Analysts looking for business trends in their company’s database pose increasingly complex queries, often through query generator front-end tools. Businesses must extract as much useful information as possible from the large volumes of data that they keep, making parallel database techno...

The design of Web-enabled services in complex organizations (banks, government, utilities and, generally, service organizations) is a hard task today. It requires to deal simultaneously with business processes and rich hypermedia communication patterns, under multiple constraints (legal, technical, ...). Models and methodologies for the design of Web systems and for the design of business proce...

With the progress of information-oriented trade and commerce many companies have recognized that the trade on and with the existing and emerging communication technologies is an essential element for the maintenance of the advantage of competition. Significant business reengineering efforts are underway to taming the complexity of both business processes and computer information systems. The in...

Web exclusive, August 2006 IT executives know that the right investments in technology can deliver a significant competitive advantage. Over the past 50 years, companies such as American Airlines, Apple Computer, Frito-Lay, Google, and Wal-Mart Stores have changed the competitive rules in their respective sectors by introducing technology-enabled innovations. But at many companies today, CIOs a...

Business Intelligence (BI) is today seen as a basis for intelligent business and enterprise systems development and design. But, from the time of its birth in late eighties until nowadays business intelligence has passed a long way. The primary interest of scientists in this field was knowledge discovery. Although the first efforts of scientists were originally oriented towards general knowledg...

The goal of the paper is to give an overview of the most relevant aspects of mobile crowdsensing that are already utilized by the society. The paper focuses on best practices applied in smart cities today, how these applications can be motivated (incentives), and how they rely on technology enablers of today’s vertical silos and future’s horizontal approaches. We introduce a path for transformi...