The unprecedented growth in service-based business processes over a short period of time has underscored the need for understanding the mechanisms and theorising the business models and business process management adopted across many organisations today. This is more evident within the Irish health sector. This research summarises a survey of the literature and argues that the inability of curr...

Integrating data mining into business processes becomes crucial for business today. Modern business process management frameworks provide great support for flexible design, deployment and management of business processes. However, integrating complex data mining services into such frameworks is not trivial due to unclear definitions of user roles and missing flexible data mining services as wel...

This paper presents some ideas about business intelligence today and the importance of developing real time business solutions. The authors make an exploration of links between business intelligence and artificial intelligence and focuses specifically on the implementation of software agents-based systems in business intelligence. There are briefly presented some of the few solutions proposed s...

In today competitive business world, organizations and enterprises need to manipulate their business processes. The real key to be successful in these organizations lies in proper business process design and management. Concentrating on business process optimization and improvement, enterprises can achieve reduced costs, increased quality of products, raised efficiency of products, adapting wit...

Predicted growth of media traffic (even conservative forecasts predict an increase of 40% year over year) can only give a hint of how important video will be for future entertainment, business, and government services. But such future multimedia services will be different from what video means to all of us today. More and more people will not only consume, but will also actively produce content...

The use of enterprise software solutions is getting increasingly important. Today thousands of users are able to work in an integrated enterprise solution. The requirements of software systems have changed dramatically in quality and quantity in the last decades. While the know-how in technology was the main factor for success in the past, today much more effort is needed and involved to unders...

Today, business is changing rapidly. Every enterprise needs to develop new service offerings and new technologies have to be adopted or reconfigured to stay in competition. Most service companies are tied with traditional project techniques, which include a staged approach. These stages need to be compressed and changed to meet time-to-market demands. Today every enterprise must be agile enough...

Business-to-business international Internet marketing is one of the key drivers in sustaining an organisation’s competitive advantage. The challenge for organisations today is to understand the factors that play a critical role in utilising Internet capabilities and their implications on business strategic objectives to enable them to compete successfully in the electronic age. Proposes 33 crit...