Information Technology as a Service

2011 ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin G. Qiu
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Enterprise Engineering ◽  
Service Computing ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
The World ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
World Class ◽  
Shift Gears

In this information era, both business and living communities are truly IT driven and service oriented. As the globalization of the world economy accelerates with the fast advance of networking and computing technologies, IT plays a more and more critical role in assuring real-time collaborations for delivering needs across the world. Nowadays, world-class enterprises are eagerly embracing service-led business models aimed at creating highly profitable service-oriented businesses. They take advantage of their own years of experience and unique marketing, engineering, and application expertise and shift gears toward creating superior outcomes to best meet their customers’ needs in order to stay competitive. IT has been considered as one of the high-value services areas. In this chapter, the discussion will focus on IT as a service. We present IT development, research, and outsourcing as a knowledge service; on the other hand, we argue that IT as a service helps enterprises align their business operations, workforce, and technologies to maximize their profits by continuously improving their performance. Numerous research and development aspects of service-enterprise engineering from a business perspective will be briefly explored, and then computing methodologies and technologies to enable adaptive enterprise service computing in support of service-enterprise engineering will be simply studied and analyzed. Finally, future development and research avenues in this emerging interdisciplinary field will also be highlighted.

Information Technology as a Service

2009 ◽  
pp. 261-278
Author(s):  
Robin G. Qiu
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Enterprise Engineering ◽  
Service Computing ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
The World ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
World Class ◽  
Shift Gears

In this information era, both business and living communities are truly IT driven and service oriented. As the globalization of the world economy accelerates with the fast advance of networking and computing technologies, IT plays a more and more critical role in assuring real-time collaborations for delivering needs across the world. Nowadays, world-class enterprises are eagerly embracing service-led business models aimed at creating highly profitable service-oriented businesses. They take advantage of their own years of experience and unique marketing, engineering, and application expertise and shift gears toward creating superior outcomes to best meet their customers’ needs in order to stay competitive. IT has been considered as one of the high-value services areas. In this chapter, the discussion will focus on IT as a service. We present IT development, research, and outsourcing as a knowledge service; on the other hand, we argue that IT as a service helps enterprises align their business operations, workforce, and technologies to maximize their profits by continuously improving their performance. Numerous research and development aspects of service-enterprise engineering from a business perspective will be briefly explored, and then computing methodologies and technologies to enable adaptive enterprise service computing in support of service-enterprise engineering will be simply studied and analyzed. Finally, future development and research avenues in this emerging interdisciplinary field will also be highlighted.

Information Technology as a Service

2010 ◽  
pp. 71-88
Author(s):  
Robin Qiu
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Enterprise Engineering ◽  
Service Computing ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
The World ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
World Class ◽  
Shift Gears

In this information era, both business and living communities are truly IT driven and service oriented. As the globalization of the world economy accelerates with the fast advance of networking and computing technologies, IT plays a more and more critical role in assuring real-time collaborations for delivering needs across the world. Nowadays, world-class enterprises are eagerly embracing service-led business models aimed at creating highly profitable service-oriented businesses. They take advantage of their own years of experience and unique marketing, engineering, and application expertise and shift gears toward creating superior outcomes to best meet their customers’ needs in order to stay competitive. IT has been considered as one of the high-value services areas. In this chapter, the discussion will focus on IT as a service. We present IT development, research, and outsourcing as a knowledge service; on the other hand, we argue that IT as a service helps enterprises align their business operations, workforce, and technologies to maximize their profits by continuously improving their performance. Numerous research and development aspects of service-enterprise engineering from a business perspective will be briefly explored, and then computing methodologies and technologies to enable adaptive enterprise service computing in support of service-enterprise engineering will be simply studied and analyzed. Finally, future development and research avenues in this emerging interdisciplinary field will also be highlighted.

Aligning Business Processes with Enterprise Service Computing Infrastructure

2010 ◽  
pp. 2164-2187
Author(s):  
Wei Zhao ◽  
Jun-Jang Jeng ◽  
Lianjun An ◽  
Fei Cao ◽  
Barret R. Bryant ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Business Processes ◽  
Service Level ◽  
It Services ◽  
End User ◽  
Business Decision ◽  
Service Computing ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Level Performance ◽  
Computing Infrastructure

Multisourced and federated business operations and IT services are the backbone of today’s enterprise. However, in most companies, there exists a natural gap and disconnection between the decision and evaluation at the business level and the execution and metrics at the IT level. This disconnection can lead to end-user dissatisfaction, diminished profit, and missed business objectives. In this chapter, we study the problem of this disconnection and provide the following frameworks and techniques toward bridging the gap: (a) We provide a model-transformation framework that effectively transforms business-level decisions documented as businessprocess models into IT-level executable representations based on service-oriented infrastructure, (b) a framework is described that is able to monitor and synthesize IT-level performance and metrics to meet service-level agreements between business management and end users, and (c) techniques and experiments are discussed that enable dynamic adaptation of IT infrastructure according to business decision changes.

New Insights into the Origin of the World-Class Jinding Sediment-Hosted Zn-Pb Deposit, Southwestern China: Evidence from LA-ICP-MS Analysis of Individual Fluid Inclusions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lan Mu ◽  
Ruizhong Hu ◽  
Xianwu Bi ◽  
Yongyong Tang ◽  
Tingguang Lan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Inclusions ◽  
Southwest China ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Previous Suggestion ◽  
Inductively Coupled ◽  
Icp Ms ◽  
The World ◽  
World Class ◽  
Homogenization Temperatures ◽  
Very High

Abstract The Jinding deposit in the Lanping basin, southwest China, is the largest sandstone-hosted Zn deposit in the world and the second largest Zn-Pb deposit in China. However, questions related to the metal compositions and origin of the ore fluids remain. In this study, microthermometry and laser ablation-inductively coupled plasmamass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) were employed to determine the properties and compositions of individual fluid inclusions trapped in sphalerite and calcite. The results show that the fluid inclusions trapped in sphalerite and calcite have similar homogenization temperatures (79°–173°C with the majority 100°–130°C), salinities (10.3–29.1 wt % NaCl + CaCl2 equiv with the majority 24.5–27.4 wt % NaCl + CaCl2 equiv), and concentrations of alkali and alkali earth elements (e.g., Na, Ca, Mg, K, Sr, Ba, Li, Rb, and Cs). However, the concentrations of ore and associated metals (e.g., Pb, Sb, Ag, and Tl) in the fluid inclusions hosted by sphalerite are significantly higher than those hosted by calcite. Based on these observations, we propose that the sulfides including sphalerite were precipitated from a low-temperature, high-salinity, Ca-rich, metal-rich fluid, while the gangue minerals such as calcite crystallized subsequently from fluids depleted in metals due to prior precipitation of sulfides, and that the high salinities of the fluid inclusions are likely due to a combination of seawater evaporation and subsequent dissolution of evaporitic sequences during fluid percolation. The LA-ICP-MS analyses reveal that the fluid inclusions have K/Na, Rb/Na, and Cs/Na ratios within the range of modern basinal brines, and Li/Na, Ba/Na, and Ca/Na ratios share similar compositions with the ore fluids of basement interacted deposits in the world. The Jinding ore fluids contain ~200 to 650 ppm Pb, based on the data of fluid inclusions trapped in sphalerite. The estimated concentrations of Zn in the ore fluids are also very high at ~200 to 6,500 ppm. Our results reveal that anomalously metal rich fluids played a critical role in the formation of the giant Jinding sediment-hosted Pb-Zn deposit. We concur with the previous suggestion that sulfide precipitation at Jinding occurred when ascending metal-rich brines encountered an H2S-rich, Ca-rich fluid, which was produced by interaction of hydrocarbons with evaporites, in the cap of the Jinding dome.

scholarly journals Multisided Platforms: Classification and Analysis

Systems ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Harald Øverby ◽  
Jan A. Audestad
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Solutions ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Temporal Evolution ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Network Effect ◽  
Analytical Models ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
Digital Services ◽  
The World ◽  
User Groups

The multisided platform (MSP) is an essential business construct in the digital economy. Some of the largest companies in the world—including Google, Amazon, and eBay—exploit the MSP in their business models. Fundamental insights into the MSP are crucial to understand the business operations of the digital economy and how new innovative digital services are adopted in the market. The MSP ecosystem is complex and dynamic, and involves heterogeneous stakeholders with different business motivations. This paper classifies the various types of MSPs, distinguished by the network effect between user groups. Moreover, this paper shows how the original diffusion model of Frank Bass can be extended to analyze the temporal evolution of multisided platforms. Analytical models using coupled sets of ordinary differential equations are developed for several examples of two-sided platforms. For some of these examples, analytical solutions are found.

Aligning Business Processes with Enterprise Service Computing Infrastructure

2011 ◽  
pp. 25-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Zhao ◽  
Jun-Jang Jeng ◽  
Lianjun An ◽  
Fei Cao ◽  
Barret R. Bryant ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Business Processes ◽  
Service Level ◽  
It Services ◽  
End User ◽  
Business Decision ◽  
Service Computing ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Level Performance ◽  
Computing Infrastructure

Multisourced and federated business operations and IT services are the backbone of today’s enterprise. However, in most companies, there exists a natural gap and disconnection between the decision and evaluation at the business level and the execution and metrics at the IT level. This disconnection can lead to end-user dissatisfaction, diminished profit, and missed business objectives. In this chapter, we study the problem of this disconnection and provide the following frameworks and techniques toward bridging the gap: (a) We provide a model-transformation framework that effectively transforms business-level decisions documented as businessprocess models into IT-level executable representations based on service-oriented infrastructure, (b) a framework is described that is able to monitor and synthesize IT-level performance and metrics to meet service-level agreements between business management and end users, and (c) techniques and experiments are discussed that enable dynamic adaptation of IT infrastructure according to business decision changes.

scholarly journals Natural Resources and their Units

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-79
Author(s):  
Frida Hastrup
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Complex Terrain ◽  
Western Norway ◽  
Fruit Cultivation ◽  
The World ◽  
World Class ◽  
A Site

Dating back to medieval times, fruit cultivation in Hardanger in western Norway is rooted in what is portrayed as a perfect microclimate naturally yielding the best apples in the world. However, the viability of the comparatively minute Norwegian fruit trade is continuously threatened by competition from outside, spurring all kinds of initiatives and policies to make it sustainable. The Norwegian fruit landscape, in other words, is both the natural and perfect home of world-class fruit and a site for continuous, often state-driven interventions to make it so; indeed, the perfection of the place accentuates the need to do what it takes to make it thrive. The necessary means to accomplish such viability, however, make up a complex terrain, as the resourcefulness of the Norwegian fruit landscape is ‘measured’ according to very different units.

Guaranteed Sweet or Guaranteed Non–Sweet – Fruit and the Future of Hortical Pty Ltd

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-16
Author(s):  
John Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Nir Spectroscopy ◽  
New Product ◽  
New Venture ◽  
Product Service ◽  
First Mover Advantage ◽  
The World ◽  
Infra Red ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Viable Business

ABSTRACTWe pick up the case as the new venture moves from a decade of dedicated scientific research into the early stages of becoming a commercially viable business. The case considers the potential of the Near Infra Red (NIR) spectroscopy technology to revolutionise the fruit markets of the world as well as the realities of trying to change existing practices and culture. The dilemma of first-mover advantage as compared to learning from the mistakes of early competitors is included. Various possible business models are introduced. The case also asks the students to consider some of the key issues of a new product/service launch.

Path of the Operation and Promotion of Market-Based Chinese Martial Arts

2014 ◽  
Vol 971-973 ◽  
pp. 2350-2353
Author(s):  
Ai Yun Sun ◽  
Xi Yang Ding
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Martial Arts ◽  
Consumption Level ◽  
The Public ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
The World ◽  
Elite Sports

martial arts through the promotion of conditions , difficulties and countermeasures analysis of the system, that China should be based on public health and martial arts fighting two clues to promote athletics , martial arts part of the refining and development of the " elite sports " and select wide popularity part , to promote the realization of the true sense of the public , in order to improve business operations and direction of development to promote social and economic development and to meet the needs of people in sports consumption level . In other words, watching athletics , martial arts fitness and economic integration of the three organic constituted martial arts through the promotion of the premise, but also the power of martial arts to the world .

Scandium distribution in the world-class Li-Sn-W Cínovec greisen-type deposit: result of a complex magmatic to hydrothermal evolution, implications for scandium valorization

2021 ◽  
pp. 104433
Author(s):  
Sebastián Hreus ◽  
Jakub Výravský ◽  
Jan Cempírek ◽  
Karel Breiter ◽  
Michaela Vašinová Galiová ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
World Class
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