255 research outputs found

    Economic Audit of South Dublin County 2004

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    The main objective of this report is to provide an audit of the assets of South Dublin County with a view to assisting South Dublin County Development Board in the preparation of an economic strategy for the county. The recommendation to undertake such an audit was outlined as a key priority in South Dublin: A Place for People - An Integrated Strategy for the Economic, Social and Cultural Development of South Dublin County 2002-2012, a report of the South Dublin County Development Board. The report is divided into seven main parts. Part 1 provides a contextual overview of the county, with particular attention to the underlying dynamics and impacts of the restructuring that has occurred since the 1990s. Issues of land use and zoning, demographic changes and the emergence of new centres of population growth are addressed in this opening part of the report. Part 2 focuses on the socio-economy, using small area census data to illustrate and analyse patterns of unemployment. This is followed by an overview of recent initiatives aimed at urban renewal and the re-development of disadvantaged areas. Part 3 examines the critical infrastructure within the county, focusing on the transport and telecommunications infrastructure, water supply and waste management systems, and the gas and electricity distribution and transmission networks. The characteristics of the local labour market and the educational infrastructure are examined in Part 4. Part 5 provides a profile of the local economy. This part of the report examines the sectoral breakdown of economic activities and employment within the county, the geographical distribution of industry, the role of FDI, and job creation and enterprise development. Part 6 addresses the issue of local governance and the final conclusion is presented in Part 7. The report is divided into seven main parts. Part 1 provides a contextual overview of the county, with particular attention to the underlying dynamics and impacts of the restructuring that has occurred since the 1990s. Issues of land use and zoning, demographic changes and the emergence of new centres of population growth are addressed in this opening part of the report. Part 2 focuses on the socio-economy, using small area census data to illustrate and analyse patterns of unemployment. This is followed by an overview of recent initiatives aimed at urban renewal and the re-development of disadvantaged areas. Part 3 examines the critical infrastructure within the county, focusing on the transport and telecommunications infrastructure, water supply and waste management systems, and the gas and electricity distribution and transmission networks. The characteristics of the local labour market and the educational infrastructure are examined in Part 4. Part 5 provides a profile of the local economy. This part of the report examines the sectoral breakdown of economic activities and employment within the county, the geographical distribution of industry, the role of FDI, and job creation and enterprise development. Part 6 addresses the issue of local governance and the final conclusion is presented in Part 7

    Digital Transformation Integration & API Management Framework

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    Digital transformation is revolutionizing the way organizations reuse legacy systems and connect them with the ever-increasing number of enterprise applications. These applications are usually hosted in the cloud with the legacy and other systems in the companies’ own data centers. This means that hybrid integration architectures are becoming a crucial part of the day-to-day processes inside organizations. The problem with different platforms is that it produces challenges. The same data is spread across different data structures, with different names and formats. This dissertation, devised with Deloitte, aims to design and implement a hybrid integration framework that connects and reuses the legacy systems with the cloud enterprise applications seamlessly to utilize the same data across all systems. Firstly, the existing integration platforms and integration software that could support the development of the API framework will be presented and described. A set of architectural patterns will be presented and described with their respective advantages and disadvantages and the way they fit in the API framework that will be created. The solution will then be evaluated with the Quantitative Evaluation Framework as well as by using system testing to see if the developed solution has quality.A transformação digital está a revolucionar a maneira como as organizações reutilizam sistemas legacy pré-existentes, e os ligam com aplicações enterprise, que sofreram um aumento significativo nos últimos anos. Estas aplicações estão regularmente hospedadas em plataformas cloud com outros sistemas e os sistemas legacy hospedados em datacenters próprios da empresa. Isto significa que, atualmente, as arquiteturas de integração assumem um papel crucial nos processos de dia-a-dia das organizações. O problema com a utilização de várias plataformas diferentes é que criam desafios ao cliente como a diferença de mapeamentos e de formatos de dados que usam, criando dificuldades em perceber como a mesma informação é armazenada e apresentada nas diferentes plataformas. Esta dissertação, elaborada em contexto empresarial com a Deloitte, tem como objetivo o design e implementação de uma camada de integração híbrida que ligue e reutilize os sistemas legacy nos datacenters do cliente com as aplicações enterprise que o cliente usa de maneira ininterrupta. Primeiramente, as plataformas de integração existentes e software de integração que podem suportar o desenvolvimento da framework de APIs, serão apresentados e descritos. Padrões arquiteturais que possam ser utilizados na framework de integração híbrida serão apresentados e descritos bem como as suas respetivas vantagens e desvantagens. A solução será depois avaliada com a Quantitative Evaluation Framework e com a testagem do sistema para avaliar se o sistema satisfaz os requisitos

    E-Health Snapshot: Harnessing Technology to Improve Medicaid and SCHIP Enrollment and Retention Practices

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    Reviews promising practices in current healthcare technology and provides concrete ideas for leaders at the state and federal levels and in the philanthropic and corporate communities who want to use technology tools effectively

    Process Controls and Improvements For Deutsche Bank\u27\u27s Job Execution Framework

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    This report, prepared for Deutsche Bank\u27\u27s Global Exchange Services (GES) division, is focused on assessing the current job scheduling systems used to execute and deliver reports throughout the bank\u27\u27\u27\u27s futures and options business. Through a series of interviews, research, and analysis, we developed recommendations to improve the future application, the Job Execution Framework (JEF), and established controls to help regulate the job submission process

    Proceedings of the 2nd Int'l Workshop on Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures - Concepts and Applications (EMISA'07)

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    The 2nd International Workshop on “Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures – Concepts and Applications” (EMISA’07) addresses all aspects relevant for enterprise modelling as well as for designing enterprise architectures in general and information systems architectures in particular. It was jointly organized by the GI Special Interest Group on Modelling Business Information Systems (GI-SIG MoBIS) and the GI Special Interest Group on Design Methods for Information Systems (GI-SIG EMISA). -- These proceedings feature a selection of 15 high quality contributions from academia and practice on enterprise architecture models, business processes management, information systems engineering, and other important issues in enterprise modelling and information systems architectures

    Editorial

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    It is tradition that the Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation (EJISE) publish a special issue containing the full versions of the best papers that were presented in a preliminary version during the 8th European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation (ECIME 2014). The faculty of Economics and Business Administration of the Ghent University was host for this successful conference on 11-12th of September 2014. ECIME 2014 received a submission of 86 abstracts and after the double-blind peer review process, thirty one academic research papers, nine PhD research papers, one master research paper and four work-in-progress papers were accepted and selected for presentation. ECIME 2014 hosted academics from twenty-two nationalities, amongst them: Australia, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macedonia (FYROM), Norway, Portugal, Romania, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, Turkey and the UK. From the thirty-one academic papers presented during the conference nine papers were selected for inclusion in this special issue of EJISE. The selected papers represent empirical work as well as theoretical research on the broad topic of management and evaluation of information systems. The papers show a wide variety of perspectives to deal with the problem

    Cal Poly Magazine, Spring 2001

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