Application performance monitoring (APM) now requires coordinated decisions across five distinct dimensions of functionality: end-user experience monitoring; user-defined transaction profiling; application component discovery and modeling; application component deep-dive monitoring; and application performance management database capabilities. Enterprises should use the results of this Magic Qu...

oo many organizations view electronic records management (ERM) software selection through a narrow lens. Some enterprises will create massive spreadsheet-based matrices with lists of features and functions broken down in minute detail. These features and functions are weighted by priority, then added and scored to rank vendors and products based on empirical data. This can be a useful exercise ...

Organizations frequently consider offshore systems development in the belief that projects can be completed for lower cost. While prices quoted by offshore vendors are often very appealing when compared with domestic vendors, there are additional risks that must be considered when looking to offshore systems development. These risks typically take the form of intangible and indirect project cos...

A number of research and development projects in the U.S. and in Europe have shown that novel technologies can open significant perspectives for hospital information systems (HIS). The selection of software products for a HIS, however, is still nontrivial. Generalist vendors promise a broad scope of functionality and integration, while specialist vendors promise elaborated and highly adapted fu...

Electronics manufacturing companies are concentrating more on their core competencies and seek partnerships with vendors such as printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturers for key inputs. Consequently, vendors must be selected based on strategic criteria rather than traditional cost considerations. This increased importance of collaboration with suppliers requires more formal and sophisticated a...

  Background: The sale of food by street vendors is an activity of economic, sanitary, and nutritional importance, but these foods can pose a high risk to the health of consumers in inadequate conditions of preparation and storage. The aim of this study was to investigate the preparation conditions and the hygienic-sanitary quality of food sold by street vendors in the vicinity of four campuse...

The objective of this article is to develop an empirically based framework for formulating and selecting a vendor in supply chain. This study applies the fuzzy set theory to evaluate the vendor selection decision. Applying Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) in obtaining criteria weights and applied Technique for Order Performance by Similarity to Idea Solution (TOPSIS) for obtaining final ranking...

Software project management inspires and urges the spirit of software developing team members which continues until completion. Obviously, success every based on right selection that ensures to meet desired requirements any project. The fundamental aim current study is extract prioritize issues faced by vendors global development (GSD) organizations during with having complete successfully. As ...

Simply looking for vendors offering the lowest prices is not ‘‘efficient sourcing’’ any more. Selection of suppliers is a multiple criteria decision. We propose a weighted linear program for the multi-criteria supplier selection problem. In addition to mathematical formulation, this paper studies a transformation technique which enables our proposed model to be solved without an optimizer. The ...