Developing Performance-Centered Systems for Higher Education

The experience in developing performance-centered systems for higher education has improved significantly, and practitioners have made considerable progress in elaborating a methodology. This paper discusses the convergence of thinking among various disciplines in analysis and design methodologies, and describes the key elements of the new-emerged performance support engineering development methodology. These are important for designing web-based systems, information systems, and knowledge management systems in higher education.performance-centered systems, web-besd systems, information systems, knowledge management systems, methodology, higher education

Outsourcing the Business Services

The nowadays international market of outsourcing services is relatively mature and with age comes wisdom ... Thus, on a grown market, choosing to outsource services can not only be justified by the strive to reduce costs but it aims to meeting more advanced objectives as accurate alignment with business strategies of the enterprise. As a result, outsourcing has reached new forms of expression that can help the enterprises to gain competitive advantage. In the context of a grown market, a new concept appears, namely the multisourcing which it refers to the outsourcing model of the future [1] that businesses must prepare to accept and use. This concept or model of the future refers to working with several suppliers, which are competitors in a spirit of trust and teamwork, in a collaborative process to maximize the benefits associated with outsourcing process.Business Outsourcing, Audit, Economic and Financial Analysis, Information Technology Outsourcing

Aspects of Accounting and Financial Analysis Service Outsourcing: a Romanian Approach

In January 2010, Forbes magazine published an article with an attractive title: Romania – became an accounting outsourcing destination. The article states that our country has fully entered the market of accounting service outsourcing. Also, the results of a study ordered by PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2010 confirm that outsourcing has encountered a revival in the last six months and the trend is ascending. The director of PricewaterhouseCoopers says that companies still resort to service outsourcing primarily to reduce costs but at the same level, customers began to also appreciate other aspects such as high efficiency, high quality services and, of course, access to high-level talent and expertise. In the above mentioned context, in author’s opinion, the theme of the current research seems appropriate as it proposes and emphasize of the fundamental aspects of outsourcing in general and specific issues related to outsourcing the services of accounting and financial analysis. This study illustrates novel aspects related to the requirements for outsourcing accounting services in our country and captures the authors' opinion on the possibilities of outsourcing the financial and economic analysis services, since these belong to a quite sensitive category. If this information comes across foreign hands, the financial and accounting information can be used for destructive purposes

Experiments and Results by Modeling the Financial Domain with UML

AbstractThe current research illustrates a framework for modeling the bankruptcy prediction models using the Unified Modeling Language. The developed framework uses the Anghel bankruptcy prediction model which is ranked by the local specialists as one of the most representative and actual autochthonous model. Also, our decision regarding the modeling of Anghel bankruptcy prediction function was based on the high accuracy rate of the model which is higher that 95%. Thus, through the UML modeling of the Anghel function it was intended to highlight the extent to which current economic transactions, carried out within the company (sales, purchasing, commissioning), submit through accounting operations (which supplies the balance of accounts) items in the annual financial statements information that determines the final score of Anghel function. Due to such application, any company could be able to find out at any moment the Anghel score value and hence the company's financial status (which can be either financial stability or bankruptcy risk). Owning such information could be vital for the company because, in the case of financial instability warning, the top management will have a sufficient margin of time to bring the activity to a healthy state and thus to prevent the bankruptcy settlement. Furthermore, the current UML developed model can be acquired by a add-on computer application and integrated into an ERP system within a Business Intelligence Component or a Scorecard component/module. Through such integration, the application will benefit from the computerization of other ERP modules from which will be able to retrieve information regarding the account balances. Such information is necessary to determine the cumulative, multi-level hierarchical Z-score value function as presented in our detailed UML model

Methodology Approaches Regarding Classic versus Mobile Enterprise Application Development

In the nowadays enterprise computerized context, there is a trend that shifts the business ap-plications to the new mobile environments. In the light of this information, it is highly important to be knowledgeable about the software development methodologies available in order to make the right choice when it comes to developing a mobile application. The current research aims to presenting the methodological approaches regarding the development cycle of classic enterprise software versus mobile apps. In the first part of the paper a brief literature review regarding the mobile apps is made, for the purpose of justifying the current research theme. The most consistent part of the article puts face-to-face the “classical” and the new development methodologies adapted to the requirements of the new mobile environment trends. The paper also presents the challenges and limitations of mobile applications as well as few of the future trends in the researched domain