Business Application Software Research Articles

The Role of Business Intelligence in Developing Tax Performance: An Applied Research in The General Taxing Authority

Objective: The present research aims at examining the role of business intelligence in developing tax performance in the General Tax Authority of a developing county. Theoretical Framework: To enlighten the main concepts of this study and underpin their theoretical foundations, the business intelligence tools and applications were presented. Their characteristics, dimensions, virtues, as well as the reasons behind their implementation were also detailed. Therefore, the role of business intelligence in improving tax performance was justified, providing a solid basis for understanding the context of our investigation carried out in the taxing authority of the Iraqi capital. Method: To conduct our investigation, a questionnaire was administrated to the target respondents, i.e. 97 employees of the General Tax Authority, located in Baghdad. Following the data collection process, descriptive, then regression analyses were undertaken. Results and Discussion: The obtained findings support that business intelligence exerts a positive influence on tax performance of the general tax authority. Research Implications: The practical and theoretical implications of this research are discussed, providing insights into the awareness of the importance of business intelligence and software applications at the workplace. Departments’ directors of the general taxing authority are invited to cooperate with the corresponding authority whose work could be better performed electronically. Decisions regarding citizens could also be taken more wisely. Originality/Value: The relevance of the present research is essentially evidenced by its main practical implications regarding the improvement of tax performance of taxing authorities of developing countries, as well as the betterment of tax services dedicated to citizens.

Building a Business Technology Foundation to Elevate the Future of a System Nursing Education and Professional Development Department.

Nursing professional development practitioners must be competent in business software applications to work at the top of their scope. However, there are no software application standards, resulting in a lack of clarity about competence. Individuals may believe they are well versed in an application, fail to seek education, and miss essential features. Nursing professional development practitioners can elevate their technological literacy significantly through a targeted technology self-assessment and peer-taught live course series.

The role of e-business applications software in driving operational excellence: Impact of departments collaboration using sustainable software

The internet era in general, and information technology in particular, have enabled synthesis between different types of information systems across a company's divisions in ways that were previously impossible. EBA software is usually measured as a single construct, whereas this study has deconstructed the term, EBA software, to provide a comprehensive understanding of its roles from a theoretical perspective and the impact on operational excellence and collaboration between EBA software-enabled departments offers. This paper intends to investigate the roles of electronic business application software from three dimensions and explore if these dimensions affect collaboration between departments and operational excellence. An online survey was performed using Google forms to gather information from the fast-food restaurant sector, with SEM being performed to examine the study's structural and measurement model. The study results show that while some EBA software dimensions positively influenced operational excellence, some did not. The results also confirm that certain dimensions of EBA software have a significant effect on department collaboration. The hypothesis of the mediating impact of department collaboration using sustainable software on operational excellence was accepted. The study offers recommendations and suggestions for supervisors and managers in the fast-food sector in Jordan in terms of being potentially beneficial in implementing efficient and effective electronic business application software to attain operational excellence and sustain it. The study also suggests that applying sustainable software that has a beneficial impact on companies' achievements. This paper is recognized as the first to study the Jordanian e-business fast-food restaurant sector, which has witnessed an accelerated increase in investment in e-business solutions to support the processes of a company itself as well as its suppliers and partners. This research presents a valid and reliable measurement scale adjusted for the Jordanian fast-food restaurant sector. Furthermore, the significant impact that EBA software has on department collaboration relating to operational excellence adds to the various information offered by the more exhaustive research field of e-business.

Technology acceptance model for the intention to use advanced business application software among Chinese business school students

Business schools strive to improve students’ analytical skills by incorporating advanced business application software courses into their curricula. This study examined how business school students perceived the ease of using the software and the usefulness of using the software in learning. The study also explored whether and how students’ perceived ease of use and usefulness of the software affected their attitude towards the use of business software and their intention to use the software. Data were collected from 159 Chinese business school students in a higher education institution in Macao. Results showed students generally agreed the software was easy to learn and use, and they agreed the software was useful. The results of structural equation modeling showed that perceived ease of use was directly and indirectly related to attitude towards the use of business software through its effect on perceived usefulness, whereas attitude towards the use of business software strongly affected the intention to use the software.

Determinants of software-as-a-service benefits and impact on firm performance

Software as a Service (SaaS) is increasingly used by firms for sourcing business application software. SaaS can enable a cost reduction and quality improvement of existing operations and provide rapid and low-cost innovation. However, decision makers are unclear about how they can benefit from SaaS. This study contributes to filling this knowledge gap by investigating factors that determine the magnitudes of operational and innovational benefits and firm performance. These research hypotheses were tested using data collected through a survey of 102 Dutch firms that use sophisticated financial SaaS services. The results show that a firm's adaptation to the SaaS model as well as its ACAP positively affects operational and innovation benefits, whereas contractual governance positively affects only the innovational benefits, and relational governance does not affect any of these two types of benefits. Although both operational and innovational benefits positively impact a firm's performance, the former have a stronger impact than the latter. The insights gained from our survey can support firms' decision-making concerning the maximization of the business benefits and firm performance.

How to set up a database?-a five-step process.

Database set-up directly impacts the quality and viability of research data, and therefore is a crucial part of the quality of clinical research. Setting up a quality database implies following a strict data-management process. Too much collected information threatens the quality of the information required to achieve the objectives of the study. Therefore, the data that will be collected and managed have to be cautiously discussed and selected. Case report forms (CRF) are the tools the most frequently used to collect the data specified by the protocol. An informative and well-structured document simplifies database design and data validation. Key elements are about choice of sequential or thematic structuring, information and type of information that should be entered and the importance of data standards and coding guide. Final database must be structured with unique ID patient, with one record per subject or per measure. Specific information must be provided for each variable according to the database specifications. The quality of the results is directly related to the quality of the collected data. The CRF should then be completed as fully and accurately as possible. Data validation relies on three key points: the CRF completion guidelines, the Edit Checks process and the Data clarification process. Various open source or business software applications provide all functionalities to set up a clinical data base and CRF. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) standardizes and strengthens the protection of personal data across the EU and for other country's data being "processed" within the EU. The General principles include lawfulness, fairness and transparency, restricted use of data, data minimization, accuracy, limited storage, confidentiality and probity, and accountability.

Workflows in Dynamic Software Systems

Business software systems and applications use businessprocess management concepts to organize and automate processes.Incorporating a business process management system in existing businessapplications is a pretty complex task and, as well, is very expensive interms of time and human resources. The article presents a newlyconceived Framework for Dynamic Business Applications - a softwareplatform that allows business users (domain experts) to defne at runtime all business objects that they will work with, their properties,relationships, and restrictions of their business/domain model. This isvery similar to what can be done with business ontologies regardingrepresentation of entities, ideas, and events, along with their propertiesand relations. After defning them, business users can use them topopulate data in the application and later apply this data for dataextraction, analysis, visualization, and reporting.ACM Computing Classifiation Sstem (1998): D.2.2, D.4.1, H.4.1.

Ontological Map of Service Oriented Architecture Based on Zachman

<em>Service orientation is an approach in the field of enterprise architecture, business information systems and software application that its main element is the service. Shared services is an organization model of sharing, across an organization. It enables collaboration among the functions/departments. Main motivations for shared services are sharing, promote efficiency, reduce cost, and support scalability. Despite of the widespread use of these two approaches in information technology, there is no tool to optimize the management of them. The aim of this study is Ontological map of service oriented architecture based on zachman framework to adapt it in the reference enterprise architecture framework through implementation ontology views on system architect software and as well as equivalent ontology component with UML diagrams. After the implementation of the suggested model, the results showed that ontology is a formal description and explicit display of objects, concepts and other entities in the relationship between them. In other words, there is a model that describe all that is in fact in to understandable language for the system. Thus the proposed establishes have association between all aspects of zachman framework, also to create a clear description of business concepts in the management of shared services and is effective to provide a unified platform for enterprise modeling.</em>

1206 業務ソフトウェア開発における早期見積技法の適用(一般セッション)

1206 業務ソフトウェア開発における早期見積技法の適用(一般セッション)

A novel privacy preserving based ensemble cross defect prediction model for decision making

Summary In recent years, defect prediction and severity assessment have been successfully applied in software defects and metrics prediction in business applications. Providing essential security to the software metrics and decision patterns are the two main issues in the traditional business models for inter and intra communication mechanisms. Traditional software prediction and decision pattern models are important to the business analysts for decision making and market analysis. But these models could not provide enough privacy to the business models for secure transmission of the decision patterns. In this proposed model, a new privacy preserving based defect prediction classification model was implemented on multiple associated products to predict metric relationship, along with defects patterns. Experimental results show that proposed model has high true positive rate compared to traditional Bayesian network and privacy preserving models. Also, this model generates a high privacy preserved decision patterns on various business software applications for secure communication.

Study on Comprehensive Evaluation Index System for Education E-government Performance of College and University

First, it sets forth the connotation of education E-government performance evaluation in college and university, Then it illustrates its design principles as directive, complete, scientific, feasible, and development. It also puts forward the construction process, including dispersion, convergence, test, and verification. Meanwhile, it determines the framework for this index system, including four primary indexes, which are information infrastructure, application system, income and benefit, insurance system, as well as eighteen secondary indexes, namely possession quality of computer products per capita, construction of office and business application system, hardware, software, personnel training, and views and talent environment, etc. By making use of analytic hierarchy process, it determines the weight of primary index and the secondary index, thus constructing a relatively complete comprehensive evaluation index system for education E-government performance of college and university.

A Detailed Analysis of Software Cost Estimation Using Cosmic-FFP

Software cost estimation is one of the most challenging tasks in software engineering. For the estimation, Function points are useful in the business application software domain and problematic in the real-time software domain. Full Function Points (FFP) are useful for functionality-based estimation, specifically for real-time and embedded software. Functional size measurement method that has user view of functional requirements developed by Common Software Measurement International Consortium (COSMIC) called COSMIC-FFP. By using COSMIC-FFP model, an early prediction of the functional complexity of the software throughout the software development life cycle within given budget constraints, reliability can be done. In this paper, a detailed analysis with process flow of COSMIC-FFP model has been discussed.

Fishbone Analysis on Wastes in Software Development Using the Lean I.T. Principles

The transformative global economy posed challenges to businesses in service management. In this computing age, the perceptual and operational edge of a certain business or organization manifested on the kind of technology it offers in the Service Management. Organizations have long recognized the importance of managing key resources such as people and information. Information has now moved to its rightful place as a key resource in the organization and therefore management of the same can be instituted by employing methodology. To keep their brand promise, technology has been used;The number of new entrants to every sectors of economy has grown significantly in recent years, and each firm strives to make their daily operation efficient in which demand for business software or application software getting higher and businesses or organizations opted to build or buy this software. Because of new entrants, it had offered opportunity to software developers to translate business processes into systems. This study investigates waste in the software development by application of Lean principles. Like any conventional projects, software becomes buggy and oftentimes it fails. Software failure is always attributed to the software engineering, not the incompetence of project managers, inadequacy of the people on the project, or lack of clear goal. The researchers’ contentions are there wastes in the software development and serve as mechanism and evidence to why software fails. Software failure is not attributed to the software itself, it includes however the acceptance of the clients and end-users. Descriptive secondary data analysis, participant observation and Fishbone Analysis were the methodology used in the study. Wastes include unfinished or partially done work, extra features, relearning, handoffs, delays, task switching, and defects.

An interactive, all-payer, multidomain primary care performance dashboard.

Engaging physicians and practice leaders through regular performance reporting is a key goal of patient-centered medical home improvement efforts. We developed and implemented an interactive, Web-based performance dashboard for primary care practices with input from provider focus groups. Adapting a business software application, individual physician and practice-level reports included information on visit-based and panel productivity, patient panel demographics, and outcome measures (quality of care, patient experience of care, and resource utilization). User training occurred prior to dissemination. Over 2 rounds of reporting, 69% to 77% of users viewed their report within 30 days and 79% of users found the report informative.

Is HTML5 Right Technology for the Development of Business Software Applications?

This paper discusses whether today very popular HTML5 meets all the requirements which are placed for technology for business software applications development. Other technologies for development of the Rich Internet Applications, such as Apache Flex (formerly Adobe Flex) and Microsoft Silverlight are compared with HTML5 in terms of business software applications development.

A Comparative Analysis of Reliability Assessment Methods for Web-Based Software

As web technology has advanced, many business software applications are built on the web. In such web environment, it has become very important to ensure the reliabilities of web-based software systems such as Software as a Service (SaaS) or Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) based systems because service failures in those systems may have an effect on extensive users. With the comparison to the reliability studies on traditional software, there are only a few studies on the reliability of web-based software. The dynamic environment of the web makes it much more complicated to assess the reliabilities of web-based software. In this paper, the authors investigate the characteristics of reliability assessment methods for web-based software such as SaaS and SOA based software systems. The authors also evaluate those methods based on hypothetical execution scenarios to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of each method. This analysis helps us to identify remaining problems on the reliability research in the web environment and provides insight into possible solutions.

A Comparative Analysis of Reliability Assessment Methods for Web-based Software

As web technology has advanced, many business software applications are built on the web. In such web environment, it has become very important to ensure the reliability of web-based software systems such as Software as a Service (SaaS) or Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) based systems because service failures in those systems may have an effect on extensive users. With the comparison to the reliability studies on traditional software, there are only a few studies on the reliability of web-based software. The dynamic environment of the web makes it much more complicated to assess the reliability of web-based software. In this paper, the authors investigate the characteristics of reliability assessment methods for web-based software such as SaaS and SOA based software systems. The authors also evaluate those methods based on hypothetical execution scenarios to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of each method. This analysis helps the authors identify remaining problems on the reliability research in the web environment and provides insight into possible solutions.

Business Application Acquisition: On-Premise or SaaS-Based Solutions?

The benefits of migrating business software applications to the cloud is a dominant IT topic among consultants, software managers, and executives. The broad interest in cloud computing is motivated by the prospect of quick, painless deployment and maintenance of applications that are now a burden of the enterprise. The authors propose an analytical method for deciding whether the features and cost of a cloud solution are appropriate to the business IT problem and whether the risks are reasonable and manageable.

Sharing Personal Health Information Via Service-Oriented Computing: A Case of Long-Term Care

Sharing personal health information among healthcare providers is a crucial business process not only for saving limited healthcare resources but also for increasing patient's healthcare quality. Building an effective personal health information sharing process from established healthcare systems is a challenge in terms of coordination different business operations among healthcare providers and restructuring technical details existed in different healthcare information systems. This study responds this challenge with a service-oriented approach and develops a business software application to describe how the challenge can be alleviated from both managerial and technical perspectives. The software application in this study depicts personal health information sharing process among different providers in a long-term care setting. The information sharing scenario is based on an industrial initiative, such as Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) from healthcare domain and the technologies for implementing the scenario are Web Service technologies from Service-oriented computing paradigm. The implementation in this study can inform healthcare researchers and practitioners applying technologies from service-oriented computing to design and develop healthcare collaborative systems to meet the increasing need for personal health information sharing.

Examining the Impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on Enterprise Practices: A Preliminary Perspective from Qatar

AbstractInformation and Communication Technologies (ICT) are widely used by organizations to enhance enterprise competitiveness. This study provides an overview of the current state of affairs of the ICT adoption in SMEs in private and public organizations in Qatar. It investigates ICT infrastructure, productivity and business application software used, drivers for ICT investment, perceptions about business benefits of ICT, outsourcing trends and availability of help and advice on ICT adoption. The study also has investigated major barriers in ICT adoption with the findings of the study are being consistent with other similar studies. The study identified the need for more training facilities for adopting ICT in SMEs. Additionally, the study identified that there is a need for the Government to provide guidance on suitable ICT products and services at an affordable cost as well as provide incentives to promote ICT investment and usage e.g. soft loans, availability of professional advice and consulting at no/low cost to SMEs. This is the first study on the status of ICT adoption and usage by SMEs in Qatar. The findings of this research will provide a foundation for future research and will help policy makers in designing policies to further enhancing usage and ICT adoption in SMEs in Qatar resulting improved productivity and competiveness.