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As postal liberalization gains momentum, traditional postage meter markets are being transformed into digital meter markets for enterprise mailers. Modern technologies such as cryptography, digital signatures, hardware security devices, the Internet, 2D bar codes, and high-speed scanning equipment have come together to establish different flavors of electronic postage, addressing the needs of postal operators, private carriers and mailers. Electronic Postage Systems:  Technology, Security, Econo...

The authors provide students with the information they need to plan, analyze and execute these new service platforms, giving them a better grasp of the changing nature of enterprise applications and infrastructure. As future managers, they must understand that unless their firms create an effective services strategy, they are likely to be left behind. Kalakota and Robinson present a balanced perspective of what students need to know to make effective technology decisions. They write both to chal...

Learn how to make the most of SharePoint 2016 and its wide range of capabilities to support your information management, collaboration, and business process management needs. Whether you are using SharePoint as an intranet or business solution platform, you will learn how to use the resources (such as lists, libraries, and sites) and services (such as search, workflow, and social) that make up these environments. In the fifth edition of this bestselling book, author Tony Smith walks you through...

This book explores startups that have thrived against the odds in places where startup success was deemed to be unlikely. Discussing a number of technology startups from around the world that have succeeded without state backing nor local venture and seed capital, Black Swan Start Ups provides unique insights into unsung models of success beyond the two dominant narratives of Asia’s ‘Tiger Economies’ and America’s Silicon Valley miracle. The author describes these stories of success as ‘black...

Digital software platforms such as iOS or Android evolve quickly. Through regular updates, their set of built-in (core) features increases. While innovation allows strengthening platforms amidst competition, it can hurt contributors when introducing core features that are already provided by third-party developers (Platform Coring). This book addresses the underexplored phenomenon of Platform Coring and provides strategical guidance for platform owners and third-party contributors. Platform owne...

Mit dem Buch „E-Business-Generator“ von Tobias Kollmann und Simon Hensellek bekommt der Leser ein praxisorientiertes Tool für den Aufbau elektronischer Geschäftsmodelle in der Digitalen Wirtschaft in die Hand, mit dem er Schritt für Schritt entweder einen vollkommen neuen digitalen Geschäftsprozess entwickeln oder einen bereits vorhandenen realen Geschäftsprozess digital transformieren kann. Es geht also nicht nur um den Neuaufbau von digitalen Geschäftsmodellen (E-Model-Generation), sondern auc...

By bringing together various current direc­tions, Software Project Management in a Changing World focuses on how people and organizations can make their processes more change-adaptive. The selected chapters closely correspond to the project management knowledge areas introduced by the Project Management Body of Knowledge, including its extension for managing software projects. The contributions are grouped into four parts, preceded by a general introduction. Part I “Fundamentals” provides in-de...

This book provides theoretical and practical backgrounds for the digital creativity management and related Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) results on the basis of a set of realistic assumptions in which several topics such as knowledge network, diversity, individual creativity, team creativity, exploration and exploitation, and organizational creativity are discussed. Until now, there has been no clear-cut methodology by which creativity management can be articulated and materialized into the busines...

This comprehensive textbook/reference presents a focused review of the state of the art in privacy research, encompassing a range of diverse topics. The first book of its kind designed specifically to cater to courses on privacy, this authoritative volume provides technical, legal, and ethical perspectives on privacy issues from a global selection of renowned experts. Features: examines privacy issues relating to databases, P2P networks, big data technologies, social networks, and digital inform...

This book is your concise guide to Ansible, the simple way to automate apps and IT infrastructure. In less than 250 pages, this book takes you from knowing nothing about configuration management to understanding how to use Ansible in a professional setting. You will learn how to create an Ansible playbook to automatically set up an environment, ready to install an open source project. You’ll extract common tasks into roles that you can reuse across all your projects, and build your infrastructu...

This book is a step-by-step guide to building your own SharePoint farm in a home lab setting. Learn how to build a windows domain and then join servers into the domain in order to create your own testing and learning environment. After you get the domain stood up, where you go from there is up to you.  This book will help you learn how to spin up SharePoint in a least privileged fashion.  This isn’t strictly a SharePoint book, though. For example, if you’re not a SharePoint professional and are...

Grid Resource Management: State of the Art and Future Trends presents an overview of the state of the field and describes both the real experiences and the current research available today. Grid computing is a rapidly developing and changing field, involving the shared and coordinated use of dynamic, multi-institutional resources. Grid resource management is the process of identifying requirements, matching resources to applications, allocating those resources, and scheduling and monitoring Grid...

Transactional Information Systems is the long-awaited, comprehensive work from leading scientists in the transaction processing field. Weikum and Vossen begin with a broad look at the role of transactional technology in today's economic and scientific endeavors, then delve into critical issues faced by all practitioners, presenting today's most effective techniques for controlling concurrent access by multiple clients, recovering from system failures, and coordinating distributed transactions.Th...

Most existing companies struggle currently because they lack the tools and strategies to move product departments into independent platforms that can be retrofitted to form dynamic new products based on consumer demands. This book provides managers and professionals with the necessary approaches for designing software and hardware architectures to support data platform organizations. Specifically, it demonstrates how to automate the decomposition of existing platforms into smaller parts that can...

The issue of data quality is as old as data itself. However, the proliferation of diverse, large-scale and often publically available data on the Web has increased the risk of poor data quality and misleading data interpretations. On the other hand, data is now exposed at a much more strategic level e.g. through business intelligence systems, increasing manifold the stakes involved for individuals, corporations as well as government agencies. There, the lack of knowledge about data accuracy, cur...

The ability to harness Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) is increasingly at the heart of competitiveness and sustainable growth. As countries engage in an increasingly competitive global economy, they are trying to weave ICT into their development strategies, in the same way enterprises have learned to use ICT to transform their business models and strategies. This integration offers a new path to development that is responsive to the challenges of our times.  In National Strategies...

Jens Müller untersucht die Anforderungen, die Aussagen über die notwendige Beschaffenheit der Struktur von BPMN-Modellen mit Bezug auf deren inhaltliche Bedeutung machen. Er stellt neuartige Konzepte vor, die es ermöglichen, strukturell-inhaltliche Anforderungen mithilfe einer graphischen Modellierungsmethode zu gestalten spezifizieren und Geschäftsprozessmodelle in Bezug auf deren Einhaltung automatisch zu verifizieren.

Das Buch liefert ein Methodenset, das IT-Verantwortlichen helfen kann, mit einfachen Instrumenten zu einer effizienten und am Kundennutzen orientierten Leistungserstellung zu gelangen.

Dieser Sammelband stellt innovative Methoden, Konzepte und Werkzeuge zur Transformation klassischer Dienstleistungen zu sogenannten „Smart Services“ vor. Durch Digitalisierung, Individualisierung und Kundenzentrierung entstehen flexible und zukunftsweisende Modelle, die branchenübergreifend als Schlüssel zu erfolgreichen Dienstleistungsinnovationen zu nutzen sind. Zahlreiche Beispiele verdeutlichen die Leistungsfähigkeit und die praktische Umsetzbarkeit der Smart Services als wesentliche Kompone...

It is the goal of researchers to seek to explore the issues, challenges and problems inherent in developing an understanding of knowledge management and mapping in the context of the learning organization. The examination of the organizational, human and technological aspects of managing knowledge is key within this discipline. Based on the completion of the latest knowledge, research and practices being defined by leading scholars, practitioners and experts, Knowledge Mapping and Management pre...