Mobile Cloud Computing and Its Effectiveness in Business Organizations

E-commerce business organizations aim at achieving the goals and the mission effectively and efficiently so as to satisfy the diverse interests of the stakeholders. MCC is an ICT concept that enables the organizations to enhance the performance when serving the important stakeholders, who include customers, staff, managers, shareholders, and industry regulators. MCC involves the integration of the mobile devices to enable the sharing of the cloud infrastructure. The integration is done via a network and between the computer devices that operate remotely. The Internet is the most common network that enables the mobile devices to utilize the data and information stored in a cloud database. E-commerce businesses prefer the cloud infrastructure because it has a large data storage capacity and high processing speeds. Also, the cloud service providers invest substantial financial, human, and technological resources in ensuring the security of the effective management of the data resources. The main benefit of MCC is that it reduces the businesses expenses. For example, it enables the companies to offer products and services in the international market via the e-commerce infrastructure. Amazon.com is an example of a Multinational Corporation that is successful in offering high-quality services and products to customers in different countries using the website and the mobile app applications that are supported by the cloud infrastructure. Keywords: mobile cloud computing, cloud computing, E-commerce. DOI: 10.7176/IKM/9-1-0

The Use of Information Systems to Improve Academic Supervision in Colleges

A supervisory service known as academic advice aims to familiarize the student with the university and its scientific departments, the domains in which graduates work, the facets of care, and the services the university offers to its students. The academic advising service assists students in adjusting to the university environment and taking advantage of the opportunities available to them by equipping them with fundamental knowledge and skills that raise their educational attainment. Academic advising is an important link in guiding students to achieve the best performance during the teaching and learning processes, to obtain the best educational outcomes and the best possible academic achievement. Exam anxiety, academic pressures, low achievement, a lack of study time, weak motivation to learn, low self-concept, social and economic pressures, and other issues are common during the university stage and prevent students from adjusting to the university environment. As a result, it becomes urgently necessary to have an advanced academic advising system to address all of these issues and ensure its capacity to achieve psychological harmony. By considering the factors of the student's academic level and university specialty, this study seeks to shed light on the reality of the Faculty of Management Academic Guidance Unit from the perspectives of students and faculty members. The statistical analysis results from the use of various statistical approaches demonstrate that students are generally satisfied with the many dimensions of the questionnaire on the caliber of academic extension services offered by the institution

Proposed Model for Micro-Insurance Risk Management Applied to the cooperative insurance sector in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Micro insurance represents one of the most important tools that provide insurance protection for a large segment of society members with low incomes against the risks they are exposed to, in return for paying low premiums commensurate with the nature of the insured risk and also with their low incomes, which requires cooperative insurance companies to provide an integrated package One of the insurance products that meet the needs of this segment of society, and given the importance of that insurance product as a tool for developing the demand for insurance sector products, in addition to providing insurance protection for an important segment of society, namely, low and middle-income people, the research team, through this research, dealt with The nature of micro-insurance by presenting its concept, characteristics and dimensions, as well as the importance of this type of insurance on the different parties to the insurance process, and the insurance coverages it provides. The insurance market in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the research reached many results, perhaps the most important of which is that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is represented by An appropriate environment for this type of insurance for many reasons, perhaps the most important of which is the increase in the number of small individual projects, but this experiment (micro takaful) faces a set of challenges that include the lack of reinsurance as a result of the dangerous nature of financial bonds, in addition to the lack of insurance expertise that enables To provide a different set of insurance products on a sound economic basis, and there are a set of organizational difficulties facing insurance companies that adopt this type of products, which prompted the research team to present a proposed model for effective strategies that work to reduce these obstacles, which can be Cooperative insurance companies are guided by the design and delivery of micro-insurance products