CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ERP SYSTEMS WITHIN THE ACTUAL ECONOMICAL-FINANCIAL CRISIS

The aim of the ERP systems is to improve the activities that belong to the stage between acquiring an order from a client and issuing the invoice for that order and also the payment. The actual financial crisis, initially started in the USA as a subprime crisis, tends to be transformed in one of the most powerful economical crisis that was known in the last ten years, and some of the analysts predict that this crisis is even worse than the one that took place in the ’30 years. In these conditions, seems to be very natural for all the companies to look up for surviving solutions during this period, and one of the most popular methods to fight against the negative effects of the crisis applied by all the companies is the cost reduction. We may consider also that such a period could represent in the same time an opportunity for the companies to reconsider the business processes and repositioned in the actual context of the market, and for this a considerable help could be the implementation of an ERP systemERP, subprime crisis, business processes, company reorganization, IT system implementation

STRATEGIC OUTLINES: BETWEEN VALUE AND DIGITAL ASSETS MANAGEMENT

Enterprise content management leverages digital asset management to supportbusiness channel diversity. Business asset management technology is targeted to products and finalservices. By capturing photos, videos, logos and other creative assets in a central repository itbecomes possible to control how, when and by whom these assets are used.The ability to locate different images enhances collaboration inside and outside the organization.To provide full value, the system links to technologies that deliver assets to real time.Managing Digital Assets is increasingly a core management discipline for both commercialcompanies and not for profit organizations.The authors propose some directions to be accomplished when it is used digital assets.Digital Assets Management (DAM), architecture of DAM, Strategy for DAM

INFORMATION FLOW ASSURED BY IT&C CONTINUITY PLANNING

Forwarding the frequent usage of complex processes and the big volume of information, it is imperative to manage the automatic circuit of the document flow in a company activity. The main advantage of such a system consist in document waiting to be procesinformation flow, IT&C continuity, maturity model for IT&C continuity, IT rationalization

Ultrametricity increases the predictability of cultural dynamics

A quantitative understanding of societies requires useful combinations of empirical data and mathematical models. Models of cultural dynamics aim at explaining the emergence of culturally homogeneous groups through social influence. Traditionally, the initial cultural traits of individuals are chosen uniformly at random, the emphasis being on characterizing the model outcomes that are independent of these (`annealed') initial conditions. Here, motivated by an increasing interest in forecasting social behavior in the real world, we reverse the point of view and focus on the effect of specific (`quenched') initial conditions, including those obtained from real data, on the final cultural state. We study the predictability, rigorously defined in an information-theoretic sense, of the \emphsocial content of the final cultural groups (i.e. who ends up in which group) from the knowledge of the initial cultural traits. We find that, as compared to random and shuffled initial conditions, the hierarchical ultrametric-like organization of empirical cultural states significantly increases the predictability of the final social content by largely confining cultural convergence within the lower levels of the hierarchy. Moreover, predictability correlates with the compatibility of short-term social coordination and long-term cultural diversity, a property that has been recently found to be strong and robust in empirical data. We also introduce a null model generating initial conditions that retain the ultrametric representation of real data. Using this ultrametric model, predictability is highly enhanced with respect to the random and shuffled cases, confirming the usefulness of the empirical hierarchical organization of culture for forecasting the outcome of social influence models

INFORMATION FLOW ASSURED BY ITC CONTINUITY PLANNING

Forwarding the frequent usage of complex processes and the big volume of information, it is imperative to manage the automatic circuit of the document flow in a company activity. The main advantage of such a system consist in document waiting to be proce

Stability of superconducting strings coupled to cosmic strings

We study the stability of superconducting strings in a U(1)_{local} x U(1)_{global} model coupled via a gauge field interaction term to U(1) Abelian-Higgs strings. The effect of the interaction on current stability is numerically investigated by varying the relevant parameters within the physical limits of our model. We find that the propagation speed of transverse (resp. longitudinal) perturbations increases (decreases) with increasing binding between the superconducting and Abelian-Higgs string. Moreover, we observe that for small enough width of the flux tube of the superconducting string and/or large enough interaction between the superconducting and the Abelian-Higgs string superconducting strings cannot carry space-like, i.e. magnetic currents. Our model can be seen as a field theoretical realization of bound states of p F-strings and q superconducting D-strings and has important implications to vorton formation during the evolution of networks of such strings.Comment: 18 pages including 17 figures: v2: figures change

Implementing a CRM System in the Context of Internet Technologies

The dynamics of the relationship with customers was fundamentally modified with the extremely fast evolution and development of the Internet, as a new channel of communication also as an opportunity to effective fast dissemination. The Internet shifted the ability to control the market from seller to buyers and led to the fundamental modification of the relations with clients. The new client that comes from the Internet channel is looking mainly for 24x7 accesses to seller’s information and resources. The Internet client wants right context and ease of navigation with effective search tools. Ultimately, he is looking for a personalized buying experience, defined by ease of opening a personal account, ability to review his shopping cart in real time. CRM (Customer Relationship Management) is defined as the sum of business processes that an organization needs to execute in order to identify, choose, buy, develop and retain its clients. The current article is aiming to present the current architecture designed to fulfil all these requirements.CRM, Internet, Client, Supplier, Marketing, Selling Policies

Summer Student Session 2012 (3/3)

11.15 Vincent Croft: Smart algorithms for multi-jet mass reconstruction 11.30 Alexandru Babeanu: Search for Cabibbo-suppressed decay Lambda_b -> (J/psi) p pi 11.45 Matteo Gazzurelli: Db_check a tool for checking specifications requirements of a complex database infrastructur