Optimising Business Performance with Standard Software Systems

Optimising Business Performance with Standard Software Systems
Author: Heinz-Dieter Knöll
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2013-12-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3322898911

This book is addressed at decision makers, project teams, project managers, company's IT-managers, and staff of consulting companies, who are either involved in complex standard software implementation, or release migration projects. The book stresses the shortcomings of many present standard software implementations which mainly pertain to insufficiently optimised business processes, thus standard software has caused a lot of dissatisfied companies. The authors analyse certain popular implementation approaches (life-cycle-models) of different Standard Software suppliers. It shows how a new semi-process oriented way of implementing modern standard software systems may contribute to a better business performance.

Enterprise Resource Planning for Global Economies: Managerial Issues and Challenges

Enterprise Resource Planning for Global Economies: Managerial Issues and Challenges
Author: Ferran, Carlos
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2008-04-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1599045338

Local functional systems that create inefficient islands of information are being replaced by expensive enterprise-wide applications that unify the functional areas; however, while we have not yet been able to completely and seamlessly integrate across functions, we find that the new islands of information are no longer functional but political, cultural, linguistic, and geographical. The global village is a reality and enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementations face new issues and challenges. Enterprise Resource Planning for Global Economies: Managerial Issues and Challenges provides authoritative research on the theoretical frameworks and pragmatic discussions on global implementations of information systems, particularly ERP systems. This book offers professionals, managers, and researchers, who want to improve their understanding of the issues and challenges that arise when information systems cross national boundaries, with an authoritative, essential research resource.

Software Optimization for High-performance Computing

Software Optimization for High-performance Computing
Author: Kevin R. Wadleigh
Publisher: Prentice Hall Professional
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2000
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780130170088

The hands-on guide to high-performance coding and algorithm optimization. This hands-on guide to software optimization introduces state-of-the-art solutions for every key aspect of software performance - both code-based and algorithm-based. Two leading HP software performance experts offer comparative optimization strategies for RISC and for the new Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) design used in Intel IA-64 processors. Using many practical examples, they offer specific techniques for: Predicting and measuring performance - and identifying your best optimization opportunities Storage optimization: cache, system memory, virtual memory, and I/0 Parallel processing: distributed-memory and shared-memory (SMP and ccNUMA) Compilers and loop optimization Enhancing parallelism: compiler directives, threads, and message passing Mathematical libraries and algorithms Whether you're a developer, ISV, or technical researcher, if you need to optimize high-performance software on today's leading processors, one book delivers the advanced techniques and code examples you need: Software Optimization for High Performance Computing.

Software Performance and Scalability

Software Performance and Scalability
Author: Henry H. Liu
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2011-09-20
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1118211316

Praise from the Reviewers: "The practicality of the subject in a real-world situation distinguishes this book from others available on the market." —Professor Behrouz Far, University of Calgary "This book could replace the computer organization texts now in use that every CS and CpE student must take. . . . It is much needed, well written, and thoughtful." —Professor Larry Bernstein, Stevens Institute of Technology A distinctive, educational text onsoftware performance and scalability This is the first book to take a quantitative approach to the subject of software performance and scalability. It brings together three unique perspectives to demonstrate how your products can be optimized and tuned for the best possible performance and scalability: The Basics—introduces the computer hardware and software architectures that predetermine the performance and scalability of a software product as well as the principles of measuring the performance and scalability of a software product Queuing Theory—helps you learn the performance laws and queuing models for interpreting the underlying physics behind software performance and scalability, supplemented with ready-to-apply techniques for improving the performance and scalability of a software system API Profiling—shows you how to design more efficient algorithms and achieve optimized performance and scalability, aided by adopting an API profiling framework (perfBasic) built on the concept of a performance map for drilling down performance root causes at the API level Software Performance and Scalability gives you a specialized skill set that will enable you to design and build performance into your products with immediate, measurable improvements. Complemented with real-world case studies, it is an indispensable resource for software developers, quality and performance assurance engineers, architects, and managers. It is anideal text for university courses related to computer and software performance evaluation and can also be used to supplement a course in computer organization or in queuing theory for upper-division and graduate computer science students.

Computers and Law

Computers and Law
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2004
Genre: Information storage and retrieval systems
ISBN:

Real-Time Spatial Optimization

Real-Time Spatial Optimization
Author: Johannes Scholz
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2011-01-19
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3640804503

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2010 in the subject Computer Science - Applied, grade: 1, Technical University of Graz (Institute of Geoinformation), course: Geoinformatics, language: English, abstract: The application of real-time spatial optimization in a Spatial Decision Support System, utilizing Geographic Information Science and Technology, is shown using the example of Wood Supply Chain management. Interdisciplinarity is a key concept, because Geographic Information Science, Operations Research and Spatial Decision Support Systems are bundled together. Service Oriented Architectures allow the development of an architecture that consists of several - even spatial - dispersed hard- and software. This approach guarantees a fail safe architecture and paves the way for Ubiquitous Computing and Spatial Data Infrastructures. In addition, spatial data can be gathered and sent out in real-time from/to mobile devices utilizing Location based Services. The dissertation proves, that a specific spatial problem can be solved using mathematical modeling and an appropriate optimization technique. In this work Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search is used. By the fact that the optimization is enveloped in a Spatial Decision Support System, decision makers are involved in the decision process. On the one hand they are able to alter model parameters which alter the optimization process at hand, and on the other hand they can choose one decision alternative recommended by the system. This dissertation shows - based on example of Wood Supply Chain management - that real-time spatial optimization is able to successfully "solve" a spatial problem when coupled with a Spatial Decision Support System.

CME

CME
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 942
Release: 1987
Genre:
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Optimization Models in Software Reliability

Optimization Models in Software Reliability
Author: Anu G. Aggarwal
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2021-09-29
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030789195

The book begins with an introduction to software reliability, models and techniques. The book is an informative book covering the strategies needed to assess software failure behaviour and its quality, as well as the application of optimization tools for major managerial decisions related to the software development process. It features a broad range of topics including software reliability assessment and apportionment, optimal allocation and selection decisions and upgradations problems. It moves through a variety of problems related to the evolving field of optimization of software reliability engineering, including software release time, resource allocating, budget planning and warranty models, which are each explored in depth in dedicated chapters. This book provides a comprehensive insight into present-day practices in software reliability engineering, making it relevant to students, researchers, academics and practising consultants and engineers.