SOA and BPM, a Partnership for Successful Organizations

In order to stay effective and competitive, companies have to be able to adapt themselves to permanent market requirements, to improve constantly their business process, to act as flexible and proactive economic agents. To achieve these goals, the IT systems within the organization have to be standardized and integrated, in order to provide fast and reliable data access to users both inside and outside the company. A proper system architecture for integrating company’s IT assets is a service oriented one. A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an IT architectural style that allows integration of the company’s business as linked, repeatable tasks called services. A subject closely related to SOA is Business Process Management (BPM), an approach that aims to improve business processes. The paper also presents some aspects of this topic, as well as the relationship between SOA and BPM. They complement each other and help companies improve their business performance.Information Systems, SOA, Web Services, BPM

Social protection in the European Union. Empirical study

Although the focus of the EU is to increase economic performance and efficiency of the common market, in the last decade, the social issue has taken a new dimension and importance in the political agenda of the EU. This material realizes an analysis from a budgetary perspective of social protection systems in the EU-25 countries, emphasizing both the elements that distinguish them as well as the ones that approach them, rated as clear signs of convergence.social protection, social reform, european convergence

Database Vs Data Warehouse

Data warehouse technology includes a set of concepts and methods that offer the users useful information for decision making. The necessity to build a data warehouse arises from the necessity to improve the quality of information in the organization. The date proceeding from different sources, having a variety of forms - both structured and unstructured, are filtered according to business rules and are integrated in a single large data collection. Using informatics solutions, managers have understood that data stored in operational systems - including databases, are an informational gold mine that must be exploited. Data warehouses have been developed to answer the increasing demands for complex analysis, which could not be properly achieved with operational databases. The present paper emphasizes some of the criteria that information application developers can use in order to choose between a database solution or a data warehouse one.data warehouse, database, database management systems, information systems, data organisation in externe memory, business intelligence

Building a Data Warehouse step by step

Data warehouses have been developed to answer the increasing demands of quality information required by the top managers and economic analysts of organizations. Their importance in now a day business area is unanimous recognized, being the foundation for developing business intelligence systems. Data warehouses offer support for decision-making process, allowing complex analyses which cannot be properly achieved from operational systems. This paper presents the ways in which a data warehouse may be developed and the stages of building it.data warehouse, data mart, data integration, database management system, OLAP, data mining

Principles and rules for defining of common consolidated tax base in the European Union

The "Common Consolidated Tax Base" system is an ambitious goal of the European Commission. Technical discussions related to this system were launched in September 2004, when was formed a working group to help the Commission to prepare a legislative proposal in this regard. Until now has been accurately defined the principles of the system and identified a number of operating rules. In this paper we propose to render some specific instances that demonstrate how the "Common Consolidated Tax Base" can achieve the objectives set by the Commission.common consolidated tax base, principles, tax mechanism

A Few Implementation Solutions for Business Intelligence

To succeed in the context of a global and dynamic economic environment, the companies must use all the information they have, as efficiently as possible, in order to gain competitive advantages and to consolidate their position on the market. They have to respond quickly to the changes in the business environment and to adapt themselves to the market’s requirements. To achieve these goals, the companies must use modern informatics technologies for data acquiring, storing, accessing and analyzing. These technologies are to be integrated into innovative solutions, such as Business Intelligence systems, which can help managers to better control the business practices and processes, to improve the company’s performance and to conserve it’s competitive advantages.Business Intelligence, competitive advantage, OLAP, data mining, key performance indicators.

Considerations of pensions reform

The national pension systems problem worsens more and more, in more countries of the world. The PAY-AS-YOU-GO (PAYG) pension systems, based exclusively on the solidarity of the generations, are confronting problems more and more difficult to solve. Their origin is found in the evolution and demographic tendencies concerning concomitant population ageing with reduced birth rate, the longer average life duration, inflation, the bigger and bigger costs needed by the post-active period in early retirement, in growing the quality of life and, very importantly, in reducing the rate of dependence (respectively reducing the number of tax payers and growing the number of pensioners). Most of the countries of the world are confronting this kind of situations.pension system, pay-as-you-go, reform, social protection

SOA and BPM, a Partnership for Successful Organizations

In order to stay effective and competitive, companies have to be able to adapt themselves to permanent market requirements, to improve constantly their business process, to act as flexible and proactive economic agents. To achieve these goals, the IT systems within the organization have to be standardized and integrated, in order to provide fast and reliable data access to users both inside and outside the company. A proper system architecture for integrating company's IT assets is a service oriented one. A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an IT architectural style that allows integration of the company’s business as linked, repeatable tasks called services. A subject closely related to SOA is Business Process Management (BPM), an approach that aims to improve business processes. The paper also presents some aspects of this topic, as well as the relationship between SOA and BPM. They complement each other and help companies improve their business performance

RESEARCH ON SOME TECHNOLOGICAL MEASURES FOR INCREASING THE YIELDS ON GRAIN SORGHUM CULTIVATED ON SANDY SOILS FROM TÂMBUREŞTI

Grain sorghum is a common species in the world also an old culture show since the fifth century BC (Antohe, I., 1991). It is grown on large areas in areas where climatic conditions are unfavorable for corn, with poor soils and nutrients in water supplies, degraded and climatic conditions with high temperatures. This ability to adapt to almost extreme weather conditions makes the species Sorghum bicolor as an alternative to exploit the productive potential of sandy soils in south-western Romania (Draghici I. et al. 1997).In this paper are presented results obtained from sorghum grain production under the testing of various rotation crops - monoculture, crop rotation of 2 years (cowpea - grain sorghum) and three years (cowpea - rye - grain sorghum) under the influence of various doses of mineral fertilizers with NPK applied in non irrigated conditions.The results obtained during the testing period showed that the conditions of sandy soils from Tâmbureşti as the best run for grain sorghum was cowpea which conduct to obtain a higher production on sorghum at the variant fertilized with N150P80K80