The enterprise data warehouse a repository of the enterprise’s data that is extracted from the operational databases. This repository is organized in a manner that facilitates querying, reporting and analysis. Since the data warehouse’s primary function is to support end-user analysis and facilitate decision making, the method in which the data warehouse is organized becomes critical to its success ... download

Time has always been of great interest to mankind. Much has been written about time from enormously complex philosophical manuscripts to farmers' almanacs. The most famous square in New York City is named Time's Square and a worldwide news magazine is titled Time. Not surprisingly, increasing interest in the dimension of time is being expressed by researchers working in the field of databases ... download

Cement was created by the Romans over 2000 years ago. The information (i.e. formula) for making it, however, was lost during the middle ages and it wasn’t until 1756 when John Smeaton, a British engineer, conducted experiments with mortars in both fresh and salt water, that the formula for making cement was rediscovered ... download

Bioinformatics is a combination of Computer Science, Information Technology and Genetics to determine and analyze genetic information. Bioinformatics deals with the issues created by the massive amounts of new types of data obtained through novel biological experiments ... download

Authentication is the process of identifying an individual. Traditional authentication methods are based on passwords and tokens. The problems with these techniques arise when the passwords or tokens are lost, stolen, or misplaced, which eventually leads to fraudulent incidents. For instance, someone can misuse your stolen network password to gain access to confidential information ... download

Civilizations are defined by their ability to communicate. Every major invention in the art of communication marked a revolutionary step in the development of the human race. From the invention of the telephone to VOIP, telecommunication has come a long way. The year 2003 saw the rise of VOIP as a feasible and inexpensive alternative to POTS and cellular technologies ... download

One of the biggest issues being discussed among tech people these days is the issue of point of presence. Increases in tracking technologies combined with decreases in physical characteristics of the chips necessary for tracking devices has made the personal tracking device a technical reality ... download

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a generic term for technologies that use radio waves to automatically identify individual items, especially items that move. They are portable memory devices on a chip that can be embedded in any object and stores information about the item itself ... download

As people become more and more dependent on data to do their jobs, and as they increase the amount of work done outside the traditional office, Enterprise Mobile Computing will become more and more critical. Accessibility to email, schedules, enterprise data etc. is made possible through EMC ... download

Just because a device is compelling does not necessarily mean that consumers will buy it. With regard to wireless devices, consumers look at the available applications and services needed to access these applications, a carrier’s ability to deliver such services, and the cost associated with accessing such services ... download

We hear 3G, video phones, enterprise mobility when it comes to wireless. The promise and the hype associated with it are tremendous. But the question is what we are seeing matching the hype? Is it all pure fiction or is there some reality in there somewhere? To answer the question, we need to look at two different, but related parts of the wireless system ... download

Information security is an important aspect of today’s IT environment and is constantly a subject of discussion. Given the situation that the world in general and the United States in particular, find themselves in, it has become important for organizations to take adequate and reasonable measures to secure their information resources ... download

How secure is secure? Is there such a thing as too secure? Questions such as these have been asked by computer security experts for the last couple of years, but have become much more important since the September 11 hijackings. According to Forbes Magazine, suspected hijackers of the September 11 planes were believed to be swapping emails, before such events, via popular services such as AOL ... download

Should the Internet, and access to it, be a public service (i.e. in the public domain) or should the net remain “private” allowing companies to charge for access? The question becomes more and more critical as inexpensive methods (i.e. a Pringles® potato chip can attached to a wireless modem) allow individuals to piggyback on open wireless networks throughout the world... download

With the internet’s globalization the presence of other languages has steadily risen. By the mid- 90s a widely quoted figure was that about 80% of the Net was in English - a figure supported by the first big study of language distribution on the internet, carried out in 1997 by Babel, a joint initiative of the Internet Society and Alis Technologies ... download

The WWW is touted by many as the catalyst for creating multi-organizational value chains. B2B and Industry-based portals, and public and private exchanges are being created across many different industries. Increases in quality, efficiency, and organizational flexibility combined with decreased production time and costs are just some of the benefits of the use of the WWW in managing the supply chain ... download

The movie industry is taking notes from the Napster experience, and their doing it just as the streaming video industry is coming of age. Some feel that the primary reason for Napster’s quick rise to fame is that its founders had the good fortune of being a part of the 1998-2000 dot-com boom ... download

Finally, traditional methods are enterprise oriented, whereas dot-coms operate on a per customer basis. This results in an "apple to oranges" comparison of revenues and expenses. To correctly value a dot-com requires that both revenues and expenses be calculated on a per customer basis ... download

Electronic commerce has had a profound affect on the way business is conducted worldwide. The impact of the Internet on the economy of the United States has benefited U.S. citizens in all walks of life. The growth of electronic commerce has helped create thousands of jobs that are highly-skilled and high-paying and this phenomenal growth has provided the consumer with access to goods ... download

With the explosion in demand for high speed data, Internet access, advanced telephony and video and entertainment services, users need faster and better network connections. We would be remiss in not pointing out some of the exciting developments that are in progress to transform the Internet as we know it at present ... download

Vinton Cerf, commonly regarded as the father of the Internet for his role as a problem solver, aggregator, and a leader for two decades after co-inventing Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), sees e-commerce unfolding on the Internet in three wave migration phases from current computer communications ... download

The balance between strategy and technology is achieved when an organization not only uses technology to differentiate its products and/or services but also provides a high level of integrated service to the customers. The alignment between technology and the organizational processes requires a redefinition of the processes affected by electronic commerce ... download

The new organizational model for the NET (internet) era is best understood by a synthesis of the strategic management literature. The central theme of Mintzberg's (1990) critique of the premises of the strategic design school model is the promotion of thought independent of action and strategy formation as a process of conception, rather than as one of learning. In the most general sense, it is argued, the design school has denied itself of the chance to adapt ... download

It has been predicted that e-commerce will replace the traditional inventory-based model with an information-based model and the basis of competition will shift from companies with strong distribution systems to those with strong information systems ... download

Centralized markets for B2B commerce over the Internet will create unprecedented levels of market transparency and lower the cost of procurement. Companies will use these marketplaces as "e-hubs" to synchronize operations with their demand and supply chains ... download

Communication is a vital element of successful CRM and the Internet allows companies to easily reach millions of customers around the world at a very low cost [Rao, Salam, & DosSantos, 1998]. Companies can gain significant advantage by utilizing the Web for communication purposes ... download

Significant technological advances in web-based tools are considered by many organizations to be a primary facilitator for streamlining the supply chains for products and services. Further, the projected growth in B2B and B2C operations has fueled an increasing industry and academic interest in issues which integrate e-business technologies and supply chain activities ... download

The concept of "Global Boutiques" - a term coined by the Center to describe an emerging business model of the new economy. As the name implies, companies employing the Global Boutiques model create small, boutique type environments where each customer feels pampered and catered to, but which operate on a global scale ... download

One of the most discussed topics in computer literature today is agent technology, particularly intelligent agent technology. Much research and many articles have been devoted to this topic, and more and more new software products billed as having intelligent agent functionality are being introduced on the market every day ... download

Envision a time that you would come home from a long day at work and you get the treatment of a King or Queen. It is not your spouse or family that is providing this treatment but it is your new automated home ... download

Nanotechnology is the art of manipulating matter at the atomic scale. Derived from the Greek word for midget, "nano" means 10-9, a billionth part. A nanometer (abbreviated nm), for example, is one billionth of a meter. Nanotechnology lets you manipulate atoms and molecules, making it possible to manufacture, replicate, and distribute any substance known to humans as easily and cheaply as you can replicate data on a computer ... download

Imagine a computer that would look nothing like the machine on your desk, but a cup of freshly ‘programmed’ coffee that is at least thousands of times faster than any supercomputer today. In describing this computer as a cup of coffee one may be doing so literally – the new computer of tomorrow might be based on molecules in a liquid instead of silicon. ... download

The realization that quantum computers harness so much power has touched off a storm of research and studies for possible applications, one of which is its ability to search for data. A classical computer can search a list of y data items in y/2 steps. A quantum computer takes in general [square root (y)] steps ... download

The industry is embracing XML in a big way. Every organization should be gaining experience with XML now. XML is not a perfect solution, and is still not mature (e.g. the standards are not yet fully defined) but this should not prevent you from moving ahead with XML-based projects ... download

The concept of knowledge management concerns the creation of structures which combine the most advanced elements of technological resources and the indispensable input of human response and decision-making. Dataquest predicts that by the year 2000 companies will be spending more than $5 billion globally ... download

This study explores the issue of effectiveness within virtual teams – groups of people who work together although they are often dispersed across space, time, and/or organizational boundaries. Due to the recent trend towards corporate restructuring, which can, in part, be attributed to an increase in corporate layoffs, mergers and acquisitions ... download

Recycling is a concept that has become popular during the past decade. Today, many of us are tying to recycle our plastic and paper wastes, taking them to the recycling centers at our local high school parking lots or to designated places by the cities ... download

National Labs. During the cold war era, the United States developed national laboratories designed to perform basic research that could lead to military and commercial products. These labs have been tremendously successful in generating new ideas and technologies, but not overly successful in commercializing ... download

As companies have implemented more and more information systems throughout their organizations, the need for integration of these systems has become paramount. Expanding from areas such as accounting, human resource, and shop floor control, enterprise-wide systems have become a format for producing this “holy grail” of full organization integration ... download

As the global economy climbs out of the recession of 2001, the argument of “old economy” versus “new economy” has given way to a more somber view of what constitutes good business practice. Intellectual property, good will, and intellectual capital are being discussed in the same breath as return on investment, net income, and EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization) ... download

Today, the amount of available information is growing much more rapidly and the need for relevant information becomes of paramount importance in the decision-making processes at all levels of enterprise management. The growth of the Internet and other on-line information repositories has greatly simplified the access ... download

KVA addresses a need long recognized by executives, and managers -- how to leverage and measure the knowledge resident in employees, information technology, and core processes. KVA analysis produces a return on knowledge (ROK) ratio to estimate the value-added by given knowledge assets regardless of where they are located. In a sense, managers are desperately seeking ROK ... download

There has been plenty of discussion about the concept of a virtual organization - one in which products or services are produced instantaneously and customized in response to customer demand (Davidow and Malone, The Virtual Corporation). To achieve this state, organizations must seamlessly integrate computers or automated machines with needed human resources ... download

Contrary to popular belief, the “information society” of the 21st century will not make manufacturing obsolete. The proper use of IT, however, will lead to lean manufacturing facilities where the jobs will be divided into two classes, skilled and unskilled. Gone will be the role of the semi-skilled “technician” whose job it is to punch a series of buttons on a machine ... download

Contrary to popular belief, the “information society” of the 21st century will not make manufacturing obsolete. The proper use of IT, however, will lead to lean manufacturing facilities where the jobs will be divided into two classes, skilled and unskilled. Gone will be the role of the semi-skilled “technician” whose job it is to punch a series of buttons on a machine ... download

For the unskilled positions, no skills other than an ability to show up for work and do the job will be needed. Competition will be fierce for these positions as the traditional unskilled worker – the uneducated in society - is joined in the job hunt by those semi-skilled workers who failed to upgrade their skills ... download

The logical answer to the question is “in school.” Tragically, however, this answer is, in most cases, wrong. There are three basic skills that separate the knowledge worker from the unskilled: reading skills, logical analysis skills, and presentation skills. In the K through 12 schools in the United States, you are lucky if you get one of these (I’ll leave it to you to figure out which one) ... download

An excerpt from an interview between Dr. Michael Savoie and Dr. Blake Frank. Dr. Frank -teaches an Organizational Analysis class at the University of Dallas and the hour-long interview was part of a series done for classes offered via satellite downlink to locations around the country. This portion of the interview deals with trends in information flow and why these trends are so critical to the future structure of organizations ... download

A few years ago, Quality Functional Deployment, QFD, was used to describe a method of ensuring that new or improved products had the greatest chance of successfully making it to market. The basic premise was that by using a cross-functional team with representatives of each department or division involved in the design, production, marketing and sales of a product and including a customer ... download