Information Management category: 2540 books

This book constitutes the revised selected papers from the 10th Global Sourcing Workshop held in Val d’Isère, France, in February 2016. The 11 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. The book offers a review of the key topics in outsourcing and...

This is a book about the importance of information to the modern business and the right way to manage it. Done properly, Direct Computing will slash its technology costs and transform its ability to keep up in this virtual world.

Social media technologies can help connect local communities to the wider world. Local Community in the Era of Social Media Technologies introduces the experience of bringing a local community to the world. This book, with the model of Santa Cruz County, California, develops a truly global approach...

The continuous advances in mobile and web technology are forming the areas of software and systems development and the connection between service users and providers. Mobile and Web Innovations in Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering offers widespread knowledge on modern organizations and the...

A concise reference to the state of the art in systems interoperability, Enterprise Interoperability VII will be of great value to engineers and computer scientists working in manufacturing and other process industries and to software engineers and electronic and manufacturing engineers working in...

This book highlights the practical aspects of using Oracle Essbase and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) as a comprehensive BI solution. It explains the key steps involved in Oracle Essbase and OBIEE implementations. Using case studies, the book covers Oracle Essbase for analytical...

The acquisition and management of information is central to the operation and marketing of many service-providing firms and other organizations. Their varied knowledge requirements influence approaches to organizational structure, relationships to other organizations, the location of operations, and...

Google announced early 2016 that they had decided to sunset the hardware-based Google Search Appliance (GSA). This step results in significant changes for many organizations. The retirement of GSA is unprecedented. If you are an existing GSA customer and want to know what to do know and what’s...

To remain competitive, businesses must consistently analyze and enhance their management strategies. By utilizing the latest technological tools in the corporate world, organizations can more easily optimize their processes. The Handbook of Research on Technology Adoption, Social Policy, and Global...

Regardless of industry, most major companies are becoming technology companies. The successful management of information has become so critical to a company’s goals that in many ways, now is the age of the CIO. Yet IT executives are besieged by a host of contradictions: bad technology can bring a company...

The Slush Pile is Bruce Anthony’s repository of short reads. The fertile mind of an author is always sprouting opinions, viewpoints, observations, and sometimes simply thoughts of wonderment that are shown to friends who continually ask, “So, what have you written lately?” They are offered here...

Successful management teams can identify the cost and return derived from the implementation of new technology, and they can properly apply the technology toward gaining a competitive advantage. IT and business managers alike need a resource that enables them to prepare for future operating conditions, identify beneficial solutions, and use high te

This volume of Annals of Information Systems will acknowledge the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the International Society for Decision Support Systems (ISDSS) by documenting some of the current best practices in teaching and research and envisioning the next twenty years in the decision...

Corporations accumulate a lot of valuable data and knowledge over time, but storing and maintaining this data can be a logistic and financial headache for business leaders and IT specialists. Uncovering Essential Software Artifacts through Business Process Archaeology introduces an emerging method of...