... External integration refers to the connection of customers and suppliers to the organizationa... more ... External integration refers to the connection of customers and suppliers to the organizational ... Socrates packages (Bit Software), CROS (Crisoft Braşov), B-Org (Transart), EXMAN (ECSO&EXO), Charisma (TotalSoft), Magic (Infosoft), Navision (LLP Bucharest) etc. ...
Abstract: The enterprise applications have more and more importance in the present conditions of ... more Abstract: The enterprise applications have more and more importance in the present conditions of globalization and economic competition. Many companies understand the importance of integration to tie together their systems and the systems of their customers, ...
Analele Stiintifice ale Universitatii "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" din Iasi - Stiinte Economice, 2006
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) increasingly consider information as an important resour... more Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) increasingly consider information as an important resource. The challenge consists in using all the integration techniques of the day-whether they are information, data, application systems or even business-process integration-to build an Information Technology platform that can meet the demands of real-time businesses. Over the last few years, new fundamental technologies have provided the basis for clearly improved functionality and quality of enterprise-wide information management. The fundamental nature of work is changing in the ebusiness era. The information integration offers SME tremendous benefits, such as streamlined business processes and increased efficiency. This paper draws on the reality of SME in Romania.
World Scientific-Now Publishers series in business, Apr 23, 2020
Nowadays, companies in Romania and abroad compete intensely for attracting employees, but the dem... more Nowadays, companies in Romania and abroad compete intensely for attracting employees, but the demand in Romania for qualified information technology (IT) personnel exceeds the supply. Previous studies have also reported that the IT market is quite “choosy”. The World IT Project contributes to a better understanding of perceptions of Romanian IT workers towards organizational, technological, and individual issues. It was discovered that IT workers have different preferences, taking into account that the average scores indicate all issues as being important. Continuity planning and disaster recovery, security and privacy, and IT reliability and efficiency are the most important organizational issues. The key technology issues are customer relationship management systems, collaborative and workflow tools, and networks/telecommunications. Overall, Romanian IT professionals are knowledgeable, hard-working, satisfied with their jobs, and willing to develop themselves in their current or other organizations.
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) increasingly consider information as an important resou... more Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) increasingly consider information as an important resource. The challenge consists in using all the integration techniques of the day - whether they are information, data, application systems or even business-process integration - to build an Information Technology platform that can meet the demands of real-time businesses. The research that this paper draws on aims to identify the challenges that Romanian SMEs will have to face in the context of EU integration and in the contemporary global business environment. Our objectives consist in identifying the advantages implied by the implementation of the new information technologies, the extent to which SMEs management is aware of these advantages, and in identifying the main technological solution that will offer support to the development of these businesses as Enterprise Resource Planning products. We consider that the description of the European SMEs and national framework is particularly relevant in tracing down the arguments for the necessity of information integration.
Analele Stiintifice ale Universitatii "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" din Iasi - Stiinte Economice, 2007
Small and Medium-Size Enterprises represent the spinal cord of most European Union countries' eco... more Small and Medium-Size Enterprises represent the spinal cord of most European Union countries' economies. In Romania, the SME "Cinderella" has been increasingly attracting the attention of SMEs specialists and agencies because, after Romania has joined the EU, this sector needs consolidation so as to add value to the national economy. The new information technologies can function as drivers to increase SMEs' efficiency and productivity in the current global economy. The grand players in the IT industry have been increasingly considered SMEs. "Heavy" names such as IBM, Oracle, Compaq or Microsoft are developing SMEs projects, both for equipment (servers, flexible technological architectures), and for integrated solutions (ERP, CRM, BI, SCM), solutions which were initially targeting large businesses only. Small Business is already becoming an important segment that the whole IT industry is targeting. Romanian SMEs must consider this trend and be prepared for the "technological fashion". The heavy survival test cannot be passed without this support.
ABSTRACT Small and medium-sized enterprises, besides science and technology, may be a decisive fa... more ABSTRACT Small and medium-sized enterprises, besides science and technology, may be a decisive factor in transforming a national economy. SME are not only a new social pattern, but they won a well-defined position, especially due to their adaptation possibilities, the large number of jobs provided, the flexibility in technology and management, and the ability to collaborate with industrial giants. The SME that are not subject to a serious process of automation cannot do e-business. It is not enough to have access to Internet or simply to have a website that attractrs clients or suppliers, if on-line orders cannot be honored. It is very important for the enterprise to have an integrated system for electronic businesses and the new environment should be used in as many operations within the company as possible. Romanian SME are just starting the journey on this way. The accession of our country to the European Union may be the survival test. Only the ones that are ready will remain in the business game.
ABSTRACT Romanian enterprises are considering information more and more as an important resource.... more ABSTRACT Romanian enterprises are considering information more and more as an important resource. The challenge consists in using all the integration techniques of the day - whether it's information, data, application, systems or even business-process integration - to build an IT platform that can meet the demands of real-time. In the last few years, new fundamental technologies have provided the basis for clearly improved functionality and quality of enterprise-wide information management. The fundamental nature of work is changing in the e-business era. The enterprises must use all the opportunities, capabilities and support technologies in order to survive and to obtain a real advantage on themarket. In a world of information and people mobility, Lotus suite provided by IBM is able to offer a plus for the users. The portal solution is a collection of technologies that work together to aggregate a selected sunset of information into a central location and reflects the vision about the way in which enterprises can evolve to the next Knowledge age Companies use Enterprise Resource Planning software to enable processes that confer competitive advantage. Supply Chain Management covers a gap in the ERP system: offering a flexible analysis and planning tool. Other contemporary business paradigms, such as Customer Relationship Management, require the cooperation with the organization's customers. Platform integration provides connectivity among heterogeneous hardware, operating systems and application platforms. These systems run a wide range of applications, including ERP, an integrated supply chain, order-to-collection system, CRM applications, call center support etc. Integrating various enterprise applications offers corporations tremendous benefits, such as streamlined business processes and increased efficiency. This paper is about the reality of enterprise information integration in Romania.
... 2002 21. Moscovici, S., Psihologia socială sau maşina de fabricat zei, Editura Universităţii ... more ... 2002 21. Moscovici, S., Psihologia socială sau maşina de fabricat zei, Editura Universităţii Alexandru Ioan Cuza Iaşi, 1995 22. Prutianu, Ş., Manual de comunicare şi negociere în afaceri, Editura Polirom, Iaşi, 2000 23. Putnam ...
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) increasingly consider information as an important resou... more Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) increasingly consider information as an important resource. The challenge consists in using all the integration techniques of the day - whether they are information, data, application systems or even business-process integration - to build an Information Technology platform that can meet the demands of real-time businesses. The research that this paper draws on aims to identify the challenges that Romanian SMEs will have to face in the context of EU integration and in the contemporary global business environment. Our objectives consist in identifying the advantages implied by the implementation of the new information technologies, the extent to which SMEs management is aware of these advantages, and in identifying the main technological solution that will offer support to the development of these businesses as Enterprise Resource Planning products. We consider that the description of the European SMEs and national framework is particularly r...
International Conference on Informatics in Economy, May 30, 2019
The difficulty in interpreting social data through the usual software used by analysts has genera... more The difficulty in interpreting social data through the usual software used by analysts has generated a new segment in the Business Intelligence (BI) market, namely Social Business Intelligence (SBI). The paper investigates the support of SBI in identifying the behavior of customers. Thus, this paper proposes an analysis of the SBI support that facilitates behavioral analysis, and as inputs it were used clicks, link accessing, or participation in online campaigns. The BI Domain supports Social Media (SM) analyzes and uses Extract Transform Load (ETL) technology to process and transform social data into data that can become the basis for business decisions. In this respect, two campaigns, namely conducted by e-mail and Facebook, were analyzed on the model of an insurance company. The aim was to identify which one, from an audience access point of view, is more efficient. The T test was used as a statistical tool, and this research was carried out based on the Facebook Business Manager package. The objective of this paper is to compare the indicators of the two modes of interaction (e-mail vs. Facebook) and to highlight the advantages of using SBI in companies.
ABSTRACT The evolution and development of “enterprise class” systems expect software to enable ne... more ABSTRACT The evolution and development of “enterprise class” systems expect software to enable new business processes, cross-enterprise collaboration, and information discovery that was previously impossible or impractical with offline or legacy enterprise applications. Current trends are that businesses need to change rapidly to take advantage of emerging business models to integrate applications and functionality, both within the four walls of the enterprise and within the extended enterprise of suppliers, partners, and customers. Many technologies and models with a dramatic impact on the future of the industry have materialized: services-oriented architecture (SOA), grid computing, open source, software as a service (SaaS) and cloud computing. Lately, the Web 2.0 concept has moved to its potential in the business world. We assist the Enterprise 2.0 emergence, a concept that we anticipate that will rebuild the profile of the software landscape.
Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is gaining widespread acceptance throughout the US, Europe, So... more Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is gaining widespread acceptance throughout the US, Europe, South America and Asia Pacific as the top executives of leading multinationals turn to outsourcing as a strategic management tool for improving corporate performance, profitability and shareholder value. BPO started to emerge a few years ago as follow-on to IT outsourcing. The concept is not new; BPO is the contracting of a specific business task. Outsourcing focuses on adding value typically to non-core and non-complex activities by buying in best practices and economies of scale. Because reduce costs, focus on core strategic activities and improve customer service, an increasing number of organizations in both the public and the private sector are looking toward BPO as a solution to their needs.
The studies published in 2015 analyzing the need for human resource in Iasi IT market (the most r... more The studies published in 2015 analyzing the need for human resource in Iasi IT market (the most representative market for the North-East of Romania) conclude that the demand for specialists exceeds by far the number of graduates from faculties which train IT specialists. Nationwide, within the FEBA2, the employment rate for the students that complete the Economic Informatics undergraduate program and different master programs that specialize students in BIS3 is approximately 95%. We strongly believe that the students graduating the program AIS4 could get a higher employability in the IT area and appropriate improvement measures would beneficially contribute to a higher rate of employability, but also to the diversification of their professional horizon and their adjustment to the IT field requirements for professional accountants nowadays. The research also attempts to determine the profile of AIS graduates and their compatibility with IT related positions in the labour market and g...
The term Enterprise Resource Planning has been in use for almost 25 years if the Gartner paternit... more The term Enterprise Resource Planning has been in use for almost 25 years if the Gartner paternity is taking as its starting point. In these 25 years the concept has created a lot of excitement, and controversy as well. Practitioners of all kind develop their ideas about ERP, while academia researchers elaborate their own definitions and visions. The examination of the proposed definitions indicates how ERP systems are being perceived as well as give an indication of the development that occurred in the ERP landscape. The purpose of this paper is to examine the shift to the third generation of ERP and the future of ERP systems while looking back in the past and trying to organize the most valuable information on the ERP evolution, synthesizing definitions and perceptions from the practitioners and the representative authors in order to characterize the ERP III concept. Passing through the significance of SOA, SaaS or cloud, the paper considers the idea of federated ERP, as the techn...
Companies use social business intelligence (SBI) to identify and collect strategically significan... more Companies use social business intelligence (SBI) to identify and collect strategically significant information from a wide range of publicly available data sources, such as social media (SM). This study is an SBI-driven analysis of a company operating in the insurance sector. It underlines the contribution of SBI technology to sustainable profitability of a company by using an optimized marketing campaign on Facebook, in symmetry with a traditional e-mail campaign. Starting from a campaign on SM, the study identified a client portfolio, processed data, and applied a set of statistical methods, such as the index and the statistical significance (T-test), which later enabled the authors to validate research hypotheses (RH), and led to relevant business decisions. The study outlines the preferences of the selected group of companies for the manner in which they run a marketing campaign on SM in symmetry with an e-mail-run campaign. Although the study focused on the practical field of insurance, the suggested model can be used by any company of any industry proving that BI technologies is the nexus of collecting and interpreting results that are essential, globally applicable, and lead to sustainable development of companies operating in the age of globalization. The results of the study prove that symmetrical unfolding (time and opportunity symmetry) of SM marketing campaigns, and using email, could lead to better results compared to two separate marketing campaigns. Moreover, the outcomes of both campaigns showed convergence on SBI platforms, which led to higher efficiency of management of preferences of campaign beneficiaries in the insurance sector.
Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is gaining widespread acceptance throughout the US, Europe, So... more Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is gaining widespread acceptance throughout the US, Europe, South America and Asia Pacific as the top executives of leading multinationals turn to outsourcing as a strategic management tool for improving corporate performance, profitability and shareholder value. BPO started to emerge a few years ago as follow-on to IT outsourcing. The concept is not new; BPO is the contracting of a specific business task. Outsourcing focuses on adding value typically to non-core and non-complex activities by buying in best practices and economies of scale. Because reduce costs, focus on core strategic activities and improve customer service, an increasing number of organizations in both the public and the private sector are looking toward BPO as a solution to their needs.
Over the last 2-3 decades, investments in the new information technology (NIT) have left a deep i... more Over the last 2-3 decades, investments in the new information technology (NIT) have left a deep impression on the life of organisations, that goes beyond ample differences in each organisation’s degree of automatisation. Furthermore, although the generalisation of NIT investment has not produced, on short and medium term, the expected effects on financial and organisational performance, its trend has remained on the increase, and the preoccupation with the development and the implementation of new technologies remains associated with the 'ice-breaker' imagine in almost any field. The ensuing connection between NIT investment and performance is compressed in the celebrated productivity paradox (Solow’s paradox): 'We can see the computer age everywhere, except for productivity statistics'. Solow contradicts the supposition that the large scale use of computers will radically and directly influence productivity. Research has demonstrated that although technology is ...
Supply Chain Management is a distinctive product, with a tremendous impact on the software applic... more Supply Chain Management is a distinctive product, with a tremendous impact on the software applications market. SCM applications are back-end solutions intended to link suppliers, manufacturers, distributors and resellers in a production and distribution network, which allows the enterprise to track and consolidate the flows of materials and data trough the process of manufacturing and distribution of goods/services. The advent of the Web as a major means of conducting business transactions and business-tobusiness communications, coupled with evolving web-based supply chain management (SCM) technology, has resulted in a transition period from “linear†supply chain models to "networked" supply chain models. The technologies to enable dynamic process changes and real time interactions between extended supply chain partners are emerging and being deployed at an accelerated pace.
Mobile ERP is not per se something new or even special. It is an issue growing to become more and... more Mobile ERP is not per se something new or even special. It is an issue growing to become more and more important and enabling mobility due to the technological revolution and more so due to the mobile users. Mobility is about how businesses can provide a better infrastructure through mobile applications and services. While ERP was an important step taken by many firms, provision of services through mobile technologies is now inevitable. Together with other trends that are changing the enterprise applications landscape, ERP systems have to support the mobile behavior of their users. The paper explores the mobile applications landscape and proposes an architecture model for the mobile services starting from the necessary functionalities for a portal of mobile services. Besides the general architecture of the portal, a set of minimal functionalities for implementation is proposed in order to ensure the promotion and use of services.
... External integration refers to the connection of customers and suppliers to the organizationa... more ... External integration refers to the connection of customers and suppliers to the organizational ... Socrates packages (Bit Software), CROS (Crisoft Braşov), B-Org (Transart), EXMAN (ECSO&EXO), Charisma (TotalSoft), Magic (Infosoft), Navision (LLP Bucharest) etc. ...
Abstract: The enterprise applications have more and more importance in the present conditions of ... more Abstract: The enterprise applications have more and more importance in the present conditions of globalization and economic competition. Many companies understand the importance of integration to tie together their systems and the systems of their customers, ...
Analele Stiintifice ale Universitatii "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" din Iasi - Stiinte Economice, 2006
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) increasingly consider information as an important resour... more Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) increasingly consider information as an important resource. The challenge consists in using all the integration techniques of the day-whether they are information, data, application systems or even business-process integration-to build an Information Technology platform that can meet the demands of real-time businesses. Over the last few years, new fundamental technologies have provided the basis for clearly improved functionality and quality of enterprise-wide information management. The fundamental nature of work is changing in the ebusiness era. The information integration offers SME tremendous benefits, such as streamlined business processes and increased efficiency. This paper draws on the reality of SME in Romania.
World Scientific-Now Publishers series in business, Apr 23, 2020
Nowadays, companies in Romania and abroad compete intensely for attracting employees, but the dem... more Nowadays, companies in Romania and abroad compete intensely for attracting employees, but the demand in Romania for qualified information technology (IT) personnel exceeds the supply. Previous studies have also reported that the IT market is quite “choosy”. The World IT Project contributes to a better understanding of perceptions of Romanian IT workers towards organizational, technological, and individual issues. It was discovered that IT workers have different preferences, taking into account that the average scores indicate all issues as being important. Continuity planning and disaster recovery, security and privacy, and IT reliability and efficiency are the most important organizational issues. The key technology issues are customer relationship management systems, collaborative and workflow tools, and networks/telecommunications. Overall, Romanian IT professionals are knowledgeable, hard-working, satisfied with their jobs, and willing to develop themselves in their current or other organizations.
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) increasingly consider information as an important resou... more Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) increasingly consider information as an important resource. The challenge consists in using all the integration techniques of the day - whether they are information, data, application systems or even business-process integration - to build an Information Technology platform that can meet the demands of real-time businesses. The research that this paper draws on aims to identify the challenges that Romanian SMEs will have to face in the context of EU integration and in the contemporary global business environment. Our objectives consist in identifying the advantages implied by the implementation of the new information technologies, the extent to which SMEs management is aware of these advantages, and in identifying the main technological solution that will offer support to the development of these businesses as Enterprise Resource Planning products. We consider that the description of the European SMEs and national framework is particularly relevant in tracing down the arguments for the necessity of information integration.
Analele Stiintifice ale Universitatii "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" din Iasi - Stiinte Economice, 2007
Small and Medium-Size Enterprises represent the spinal cord of most European Union countries' eco... more Small and Medium-Size Enterprises represent the spinal cord of most European Union countries' economies. In Romania, the SME "Cinderella" has been increasingly attracting the attention of SMEs specialists and agencies because, after Romania has joined the EU, this sector needs consolidation so as to add value to the national economy. The new information technologies can function as drivers to increase SMEs' efficiency and productivity in the current global economy. The grand players in the IT industry have been increasingly considered SMEs. "Heavy" names such as IBM, Oracle, Compaq or Microsoft are developing SMEs projects, both for equipment (servers, flexible technological architectures), and for integrated solutions (ERP, CRM, BI, SCM), solutions which were initially targeting large businesses only. Small Business is already becoming an important segment that the whole IT industry is targeting. Romanian SMEs must consider this trend and be prepared for the "technological fashion". The heavy survival test cannot be passed without this support.
ABSTRACT Small and medium-sized enterprises, besides science and technology, may be a decisive fa... more ABSTRACT Small and medium-sized enterprises, besides science and technology, may be a decisive factor in transforming a national economy. SME are not only a new social pattern, but they won a well-defined position, especially due to their adaptation possibilities, the large number of jobs provided, the flexibility in technology and management, and the ability to collaborate with industrial giants. The SME that are not subject to a serious process of automation cannot do e-business. It is not enough to have access to Internet or simply to have a website that attractrs clients or suppliers, if on-line orders cannot be honored. It is very important for the enterprise to have an integrated system for electronic businesses and the new environment should be used in as many operations within the company as possible. Romanian SME are just starting the journey on this way. The accession of our country to the European Union may be the survival test. Only the ones that are ready will remain in the business game.
ABSTRACT Romanian enterprises are considering information more and more as an important resource.... more ABSTRACT Romanian enterprises are considering information more and more as an important resource. The challenge consists in using all the integration techniques of the day - whether it's information, data, application, systems or even business-process integration - to build an IT platform that can meet the demands of real-time. In the last few years, new fundamental technologies have provided the basis for clearly improved functionality and quality of enterprise-wide information management. The fundamental nature of work is changing in the e-business era. The enterprises must use all the opportunities, capabilities and support technologies in order to survive and to obtain a real advantage on themarket. In a world of information and people mobility, Lotus suite provided by IBM is able to offer a plus for the users. The portal solution is a collection of technologies that work together to aggregate a selected sunset of information into a central location and reflects the vision about the way in which enterprises can evolve to the next Knowledge age Companies use Enterprise Resource Planning software to enable processes that confer competitive advantage. Supply Chain Management covers a gap in the ERP system: offering a flexible analysis and planning tool. Other contemporary business paradigms, such as Customer Relationship Management, require the cooperation with the organization's customers. Platform integration provides connectivity among heterogeneous hardware, operating systems and application platforms. These systems run a wide range of applications, including ERP, an integrated supply chain, order-to-collection system, CRM applications, call center support etc. Integrating various enterprise applications offers corporations tremendous benefits, such as streamlined business processes and increased efficiency. This paper is about the reality of enterprise information integration in Romania.
... 2002 21. Moscovici, S., Psihologia socială sau maşina de fabricat zei, Editura Universităţii ... more ... 2002 21. Moscovici, S., Psihologia socială sau maşina de fabricat zei, Editura Universităţii Alexandru Ioan Cuza Iaşi, 1995 22. Prutianu, Ş., Manual de comunicare şi negociere în afaceri, Editura Polirom, Iaşi, 2000 23. Putnam ...
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) increasingly consider information as an important resou... more Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) increasingly consider information as an important resource. The challenge consists in using all the integration techniques of the day - whether they are information, data, application systems or even business-process integration - to build an Information Technology platform that can meet the demands of real-time businesses. The research that this paper draws on aims to identify the challenges that Romanian SMEs will have to face in the context of EU integration and in the contemporary global business environment. Our objectives consist in identifying the advantages implied by the implementation of the new information technologies, the extent to which SMEs management is aware of these advantages, and in identifying the main technological solution that will offer support to the development of these businesses as Enterprise Resource Planning products. We consider that the description of the European SMEs and national framework is particularly r...
International Conference on Informatics in Economy, May 30, 2019
The difficulty in interpreting social data through the usual software used by analysts has genera... more The difficulty in interpreting social data through the usual software used by analysts has generated a new segment in the Business Intelligence (BI) market, namely Social Business Intelligence (SBI). The paper investigates the support of SBI in identifying the behavior of customers. Thus, this paper proposes an analysis of the SBI support that facilitates behavioral analysis, and as inputs it were used clicks, link accessing, or participation in online campaigns. The BI Domain supports Social Media (SM) analyzes and uses Extract Transform Load (ETL) technology to process and transform social data into data that can become the basis for business decisions. In this respect, two campaigns, namely conducted by e-mail and Facebook, were analyzed on the model of an insurance company. The aim was to identify which one, from an audience access point of view, is more efficient. The T test was used as a statistical tool, and this research was carried out based on the Facebook Business Manager package. The objective of this paper is to compare the indicators of the two modes of interaction (e-mail vs. Facebook) and to highlight the advantages of using SBI in companies.
ABSTRACT The evolution and development of “enterprise class” systems expect software to enable ne... more ABSTRACT The evolution and development of “enterprise class” systems expect software to enable new business processes, cross-enterprise collaboration, and information discovery that was previously impossible or impractical with offline or legacy enterprise applications. Current trends are that businesses need to change rapidly to take advantage of emerging business models to integrate applications and functionality, both within the four walls of the enterprise and within the extended enterprise of suppliers, partners, and customers. Many technologies and models with a dramatic impact on the future of the industry have materialized: services-oriented architecture (SOA), grid computing, open source, software as a service (SaaS) and cloud computing. Lately, the Web 2.0 concept has moved to its potential in the business world. We assist the Enterprise 2.0 emergence, a concept that we anticipate that will rebuild the profile of the software landscape.
Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is gaining widespread acceptance throughout the US, Europe, So... more Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is gaining widespread acceptance throughout the US, Europe, South America and Asia Pacific as the top executives of leading multinationals turn to outsourcing as a strategic management tool for improving corporate performance, profitability and shareholder value. BPO started to emerge a few years ago as follow-on to IT outsourcing. The concept is not new; BPO is the contracting of a specific business task. Outsourcing focuses on adding value typically to non-core and non-complex activities by buying in best practices and economies of scale. Because reduce costs, focus on core strategic activities and improve customer service, an increasing number of organizations in both the public and the private sector are looking toward BPO as a solution to their needs.
The studies published in 2015 analyzing the need for human resource in Iasi IT market (the most r... more The studies published in 2015 analyzing the need for human resource in Iasi IT market (the most representative market for the North-East of Romania) conclude that the demand for specialists exceeds by far the number of graduates from faculties which train IT specialists. Nationwide, within the FEBA2, the employment rate for the students that complete the Economic Informatics undergraduate program and different master programs that specialize students in BIS3 is approximately 95%. We strongly believe that the students graduating the program AIS4 could get a higher employability in the IT area and appropriate improvement measures would beneficially contribute to a higher rate of employability, but also to the diversification of their professional horizon and their adjustment to the IT field requirements for professional accountants nowadays. The research also attempts to determine the profile of AIS graduates and their compatibility with IT related positions in the labour market and g...
The term Enterprise Resource Planning has been in use for almost 25 years if the Gartner paternit... more The term Enterprise Resource Planning has been in use for almost 25 years if the Gartner paternity is taking as its starting point. In these 25 years the concept has created a lot of excitement, and controversy as well. Practitioners of all kind develop their ideas about ERP, while academia researchers elaborate their own definitions and visions. The examination of the proposed definitions indicates how ERP systems are being perceived as well as give an indication of the development that occurred in the ERP landscape. The purpose of this paper is to examine the shift to the third generation of ERP and the future of ERP systems while looking back in the past and trying to organize the most valuable information on the ERP evolution, synthesizing definitions and perceptions from the practitioners and the representative authors in order to characterize the ERP III concept. Passing through the significance of SOA, SaaS or cloud, the paper considers the idea of federated ERP, as the techn...
Companies use social business intelligence (SBI) to identify and collect strategically significan... more Companies use social business intelligence (SBI) to identify and collect strategically significant information from a wide range of publicly available data sources, such as social media (SM). This study is an SBI-driven analysis of a company operating in the insurance sector. It underlines the contribution of SBI technology to sustainable profitability of a company by using an optimized marketing campaign on Facebook, in symmetry with a traditional e-mail campaign. Starting from a campaign on SM, the study identified a client portfolio, processed data, and applied a set of statistical methods, such as the index and the statistical significance (T-test), which later enabled the authors to validate research hypotheses (RH), and led to relevant business decisions. The study outlines the preferences of the selected group of companies for the manner in which they run a marketing campaign on SM in symmetry with an e-mail-run campaign. Although the study focused on the practical field of insurance, the suggested model can be used by any company of any industry proving that BI technologies is the nexus of collecting and interpreting results that are essential, globally applicable, and lead to sustainable development of companies operating in the age of globalization. The results of the study prove that symmetrical unfolding (time and opportunity symmetry) of SM marketing campaigns, and using email, could lead to better results compared to two separate marketing campaigns. Moreover, the outcomes of both campaigns showed convergence on SBI platforms, which led to higher efficiency of management of preferences of campaign beneficiaries in the insurance sector.
Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is gaining widespread acceptance throughout the US, Europe, So... more Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is gaining widespread acceptance throughout the US, Europe, South America and Asia Pacific as the top executives of leading multinationals turn to outsourcing as a strategic management tool for improving corporate performance, profitability and shareholder value. BPO started to emerge a few years ago as follow-on to IT outsourcing. The concept is not new; BPO is the contracting of a specific business task. Outsourcing focuses on adding value typically to non-core and non-complex activities by buying in best practices and economies of scale. Because reduce costs, focus on core strategic activities and improve customer service, an increasing number of organizations in both the public and the private sector are looking toward BPO as a solution to their needs.
Over the last 2-3 decades, investments in the new information technology (NIT) have left a deep i... more Over the last 2-3 decades, investments in the new information technology (NIT) have left a deep impression on the life of organisations, that goes beyond ample differences in each organisation’s degree of automatisation. Furthermore, although the generalisation of NIT investment has not produced, on short and medium term, the expected effects on financial and organisational performance, its trend has remained on the increase, and the preoccupation with the development and the implementation of new technologies remains associated with the 'ice-breaker' imagine in almost any field. The ensuing connection between NIT investment and performance is compressed in the celebrated productivity paradox (Solow’s paradox): 'We can see the computer age everywhere, except for productivity statistics'. Solow contradicts the supposition that the large scale use of computers will radically and directly influence productivity. Research has demonstrated that although technology is ...
Supply Chain Management is a distinctive product, with a tremendous impact on the software applic... more Supply Chain Management is a distinctive product, with a tremendous impact on the software applications market. SCM applications are back-end solutions intended to link suppliers, manufacturers, distributors and resellers in a production and distribution network, which allows the enterprise to track and consolidate the flows of materials and data trough the process of manufacturing and distribution of goods/services. The advent of the Web as a major means of conducting business transactions and business-tobusiness communications, coupled with evolving web-based supply chain management (SCM) technology, has resulted in a transition period from “linear†supply chain models to "networked" supply chain models. The technologies to enable dynamic process changes and real time interactions between extended supply chain partners are emerging and being deployed at an accelerated pace.
Mobile ERP is not per se something new or even special. It is an issue growing to become more and... more Mobile ERP is not per se something new or even special. It is an issue growing to become more and more important and enabling mobility due to the technological revolution and more so due to the mobile users. Mobility is about how businesses can provide a better infrastructure through mobile applications and services. While ERP was an important step taken by many firms, provision of services through mobile technologies is now inevitable. Together with other trends that are changing the enterprise applications landscape, ERP systems have to support the mobile behavior of their users. The paper explores the mobile applications landscape and proposes an architecture model for the mobile services starting from the necessary functionalities for a portal of mobile services. Besides the general architecture of the portal, a set of minimal functionalities for implementation is proposed in order to ensure the promotion and use of services.
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