Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), and in particular the Internet, have played a fundamental role in helping companies reach the goals of ‘‘supply chain integration’’. The Internet can change the role and type of relationships between the various players, creating new value networks and developing new business models. This work studies the impact of the Internet on company busine...

Brazilian companies are increasingly turning to web-based corporate training by virtue of the fact that they need to train their employees within tight budget constraints in a country of continental dimensions. However, most of these companies do not know what the critical success factors in these endeavors are. Therefore, this chapter seeks to investigate some key success factors associated wi...

Web 2.0 technologies promote democracy which poses issues for corporate communications. Corporate communications is orchestrated by companies to promote business strategy and raise brand profile. However, companies’ use of Web 2.0 technologies in the form of social media raises problems for corporate communications departments. Web communities on social media may run campaigns that have adverse...

Semantic Web Services are the key technology providing services for the users’ convenience in the semantic web environment. Many companies in various fields are researching and developing languages for constructing Semantic Web Services such as DAML-S, WSDL, X-LANG and BPEL4WS. DAML-S is a method that accesses the existing Web Service method from a semantic web environment. However, the current...

Brazilian companies are increasingly turning to Web-based corporate training by virtue of the fact that they need to train their employees within tight budget constraints. However, most companies do not know what the critical success factors in these endeavors are. Therefore, this article seeks to investigate some key success factors associated with such digital enterprises. In order to achieve...

Nowadays, the focus is not only on how to exchange data between companies but also on how to exchange services between them or between companies-customers in order to minimize IT charges and increase their profit. Thus, web services are an adequate solution for the e-business thanks to their interoperability and reusability. The combination of web services and semantic technology, which are cal...

In order to be more competitive, companies often have to work together to offer users a more compact and unique product. This implies that companies must reach an agreement in terms of the necessity of each user. The majority of companies currently present their functionality by means of Web Services, and therefore a combination of activities can be carried out by using business process managem...

Supply-chains are large systems consisting of many components interacting in complex ways. The challenge faced by companies is how to design and manage such systems. Modeling and simulation enables analysis of complex systems but as the model increases in size and realism, a distribution capability is needed. While the High Level Architecture provides the infrastructure needed for large-scale d...

The economical context greatly impacts companies and their Information Systems (IS). Companies have new competitors or develop new business skills, delocalize whole or part of their organization. Moreover they are faced with powerful competitors, and new products, fitting customer needs, must be developped fast, sometimes in less than 3 months. These companies’ ISs need to cope with such comple...

background and purpose: active learning, combined with computer-assisted instruction, can enhance medical students’ performance and learning. this article is an attempt to introduce a new web-based approach to information technology instruction for medical students. methods: eight topics were selected to be instructed in web-based workshops. phpbb forum was used for web-based collaborative lear...