IT Demand Research Articles

Comparison of Three Resouces Allocation Technique in Cloud Computing

The shift to the cloud enables organizations of all sizes to swiftly, efficiently, and innovatively move their operations. The adoption of cloud computing has significantly transformed most organizations' work, communication, and collaboration methods, making it a crucial necessity for maintaining competitiveness in the digital age. Organizations are implementing cloud bursting to handle IT demand peaks by utilizing private cloud capacity and public cloud capacity, freeing up local resources for critical applications, and reverting data back to the private cloud. Organizations face challenges in allocating resources in cloud computing to automatically switch from private cloud to public cloud, leading to system issues, user frustration, operational failure, increased stress, and revenue loss. To address these concerns. This paper investigates traffic predictions by comparing three prediction tools, such as support vector machines, spatio-temporal, and edge-cloud collaborative schemes, and proposing conceptual solutions. Efficient cloud computing traffic management can prevent system bottlenecks, especially during peak periods, potentially leading to dissatisfied clients.

Enhancing decision-making of IT demand management with process mining

PurposeDigitalization, innovation and changing customer requirements drive the continuous improvement of an organization's business processes. IT demand management (ITDM) as a methodology supports the holistic governance of IT and the corresponding business process change (BPC), by allocating resources to meet a company's requirements and strategic objectives. As ITDM decision-makers are not fully aware of how the as-is business processes operate and interact, making informed decisions that positively impact the to-be process is a key challenge.Design/methodology/approachIn this paper, the authors address this challenge by developing a novel approach that integrates process mining and ITDM. To this end, the authors conduct an action research study where the researchers participated in the design, creation and evaluation of the approach. The proposed approach is illustrated using two sample demands of an insurance claims process. These demands are used to construct the artefact in multiple research circles and to validate the approach in practice. The authors applied learning and reflection methods for incrementally adjusting this study’s approach.FindingsThe study shows that the utilization of process mining activities during process changes on an operational level contributes to (1) increasing accuracy and efficiency of ITDM; (2) timely identification of potential risks and dependencies and (3) support of testing and acceptance of IT demands.Originality/valueThe implementation of this study’s approach improved ITDM practice. It appropriately addressed the information needs of decision-makers and unveiled the effects and consequences of process changes. Furthermore, providing a clearer picture of the process dependencies clarified the responsibilities and the interfaces at the intra- and inter-process level.

Organizational and psychosocial environmental work factors associated with self-rated exhaustion disorder among municipal employees in rural northern Sweden.

Research indicates that good organizational and psychosocial environments are vital to well-functioning workplaces and employee health. Working in the municipal sector and in the rural context may contribute to more health problems, poorer organizational and psychosocial work environments, and higher sick-leave rates. The aim of this study was to explore organizational and psychosocial environmental work factors among municipal employees with or without self-rated exhaustion disorder (s-ED) in rural northern Sweden. The Modern Work Life Questionnaire and the Self-Rated Exhaustion Disorder Scale were used among 1093 municipal employees. The results showed that there were significant differences between the s-ED and the non-s-ED group in all but one of the organizational and psychosocial environmental work factors. Various demands, i.e. quantitative, emotional, intellectual, and IT demands were some factors associated with the s-ED group. Social support, resources, and time for work and reflection were some factors associated with the non-s-ED group. Both the s-ED and the non-s-ED groups assessed significantly higher emotional demands and less resources compared to national reference values. Findings from this study are relevant to a better understanding what organizational and psychosocial work environmental work factor the employer need to pay extra attention to. Addressing risk and protective factors in the work environment could tribute to promote occupational well-being, preventing exhaustion disorder and long-term sick leave among municipal employees in rural northern Sweden.

The impact of ICT characteristics on students’ learning outcomes during COVID-19 lockdown period: The crucial role of techno eustress perception

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 crisis led to an unprecedented acceleration of digital learning. It pushed many institutions to abruptly switch to fully online learning modes from face-to-face learning. Prior studies show that higher IT demands can cause challenge or hindrance stressors, depending on how the digital technology characteristics are perceived by the end-user. However, there is a gap in our knowledge regarding how ICT characteristics can lead to positive stress appraisals in a remote learning environment. OBJECTIVE: This paper leverages the person-environment fit and technostress literature to examine how usefulness and reliability as demand-ability stressors of ICT tools can positively impact learning outcomes among remote learning students. Techno eustress perceptions are evaluated as a crucial mechanism for theorizing the positive impact. METHODS: We used the survey method, sampling students (N = 82) during the lockdown period to test this model. RESULTS: Our findings highlight the ICT characteristic of usefulness as salient in contributing to student learning outcomes as it promotes techno eustress. CONCLUSIONS: This is the first study to demonstrate a positive impact of ICT characteristics on student learning outcomes via techno eustress perceptions.

Strategic IT Demand Management for Business and Innovation Organization

Strategic IT demand plays a crucial role in the success of any business. This process requires an in-depth understanding of the organizational strategy level by senior management and management at various levels. This abstract describes the importance of IT Demand Management to the strategic planning of organizations’ information technology innovations where management at all levels are involved in thinking, analyzing, and deciding every important IT investment that it can contribute to business success. This abstract presents a conceptual model, the relationship between EO and TO strategies, and ITDM processes to meet the needs of Optimization of OP that aims to become Innovation Organizations. This result is obtained through a survey study of 50 companies. Samples were management at different levels as the survey can confirm that the ITDM process is an important part of what management needs to know, understand and it can be used as a decision-making tool in organizations’strategic planning as well as it can create a process to become good governance. It can be able to drive and support the IT needs of customers and organizations for the success of the business in the future, truly. Moreover, this concept can be applied in several business areas or industries such as Banking, Energy, Mobile technology, or Telecommunication business.

Effect of Industrial Robots on Employment in China: An Industry Level Analysis.

China has been the world's largest market for industrial robots since 2013. Industrial robots improve accuracy, safety, and efficiency in industrial production but have a substantial impact on the labor market. This investigation uses the task-based model to explore the relationship between industrial robots and employment across industries. This study uses industrial robot data from the International Federation of Robotics and employment data from the China Statistical Yearbook from 2010 to 2019 to examine robot applications' influencing mechanisms on labor demand in different industries in China. The results show a significant positive correlation between robots' exposure and labor demand for IT, health and social services, science research and technical services, and management of water conservancy and environmental industries. Based on the results, the use of robots promotes high-skilled talent employment and some third-sector employment, like education, food and beverages, utilities, household appliances, and transport. However, multiple regression analysis reveals that the use of robots has reduced employment in traditional industries such as agriculture and mining.

Конкурентные преимущества IT-компаний в цифровой экономике

The article touches upon topical issues of the development of the Russian segment of the web services market in online environment in the global economic space. The study of the modern market of IT companies seems extremely relevant today. More and more firms need to start working in digital in order to expand business opportunities, optimize ways of interacting with customers, as well as increase competitiveness and economic efficiency indicators. The use of information technologies in business processes is becoming extremely necessary in the conditions of coronavirus restrictions, which increases the demand for IT companies’ services. In this regard, it is important to understand their basic strategies and assess their tendency to monopolize. “Previously, economists assumed that competitive markets for digital services are less prone to monopolization than markets for standard products. Now, monopolization, information asymmetry, and external (network) effects can be observed in digital markets” [1]. The purpose of the study is to identify the type of structure of the Russian segment of the web services market online in the global economic space and to assess the intensity of competition. To achieve this goal, the following tasks were solved: the relevant market was identified, its main characteristics and composition of participants were analyzed, the trends of its transformation in the conditions of COVID-19, the choice of criteria for analyzing the structure of the Russian market segment on the Upwork online exchange platform was justified. The results are based on an empirical study of statistical information on Novosibirsk companies operating on the Upwork platform. Such market parameters as a large number of firms, the insignificant height of barriers to entry into the industry, the predominance of non-price competition make it possible to identify it as a market of monopolistic competition. The article identifies the problems of antimonopoly regulation of the market of web services operating on digital platforms, namely: the complexity of their analysis and identification of the «relevant» market, the “blurring” of geographical and product boundaries, growing demand. The factors determining the competitive advantages of firms in the web services market and clients’ package, which, in turn, indirectly influence the choice of strategy, are systematized. The authors attempt to describe the motives of buyers’ behavior in the web services market when remotely selecting sellers in an online environment.

The Russian Labor Market in the Information Technology Industry in 2021

Relevance. The pandemic served as a catalyst for the digitalization of the economy, accelerated the processes of automation and digitalization in all spheres of the economy and in the social life of society. The key problem faced by IT companies in connection with the widespread introduction of information technology is the increased need for qualified programmers and analysts. The current situation has led to the need to assess the labor market of the IT sector in order to identify trends in meeting the demand for IT specialists.The purpose of the study: to assess the current situation and trends in the development of the labor market of IT specialists in our country after a one-year pandemic.The objectives: the number of IT specialists in the country's economy; the job market, requests and offers from employers; the structure of vacancies; activity and portrait of applicants.The research methodology is based on a systematic approach. The research is based on a resource approach. Traditional methods for theoretical and applied research were used - statistical analysis, synthesis, comparison, generalization. The research material was statistical data of Rosstat and the All-Russian federal database of vacancies and resumes, analytical materials of labor market research of IT specialists.Results. The pandemic accelerated the processes of digitalization of the economy and social life of society, caused a new round of competition for IT specialists. Research has revealed a growing need for IT specialists in all areas of the economy. There was an imbalance of supply and demand in the industrial labor market. Programmers are one of the most needed and paid specialists, the need for which is observed in all sectors of the economy.Conclusions. There was a need to change the paradigm of staff search and recruitment. How well the employer company will be represented on the market and how well it will behave with applicants in the process of coordinating the interests of the employer and the employee, so the success of hiring the right specialist will be ensured.

Identifying the role of cloud computing technology in management of educational institutions

Cloud computing refers to a computer architecture that offers universal on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable resources. Educational institutions are essential because they play a vital role in policy formulation and contribute to cultural, political, and social growth. Cloud computing is highly popular throughout the IT sector worldwide, and its importance and excitement is also expanding in educational institutions' IT demands. There is currently little information available on the use of cloud computing in educational institutions. Organizations can use cloud computing to decrease IT costs while also gaining more flexibility and scalability; nevertheless, the sustainability of many cloud computing services remains to be seen. Measures to address security, privacy, and legal concerns, as well as the standardization of cloud technology, are still in the works. This article discusses the importance of cloud computing technologies in educational institution management. This also presents a number of problems in terms of cloud computing adoption in educational institutions.

Retraction Note: Development of an abnormal ocean circulation and Japanese visualization teaching system based on the Internet of Things

Today, China’s communications industry is developing rapidly, and Internet of Things (IoT) technology is also widely used in various industries. In view of the rapid growth of Internet of Things users and the ever-increasing demand for intelligence and IT, operators’ customer awareness and the follow-up business assurance function of network application services are facing major challenges. It also observes and studies ocean anomalous circulations at different times, as well as key areas where anomalies occur and evolve. The ocean observation network established by the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS) has deployed more than 20 sets of deep-sea diving markers in the junction area of the Yap–Mariana trenches at 130°E, 140°E, and 142°E. This observation network provides the evolution of sea temperature, salinity, and ocean currents related to recent ENSO events and effectively supplements the shortcomings of on-site observation of ENSO events. With the development of science and technology and the development of computer networks, distance learning has gradually shown its potential advantages. It makes Japanese teaching easier. Due to the popularity of Japanese and the continuous enrichment of Japanese teaching content, it can also continuously update and improve its functions, which can effectively solve the problem of overload. The visualization system is the product of time progress and educational renewal, and it helps to improve the teaching effect of Japanese lessons. It includes new teaching methods and diversified educational resources. With the support of modern educational technology, it is easily recognized by teachers and students.

Is it a Matter of Trait or State? Understanding IT-mediated Learning Effectiveness During COVID-19

Despite the many expected positives of online learning, during the current COVID-19 impacted scenario, students have reported mixed-outcomes. While some students could adapt to the increased IT demands for learning, others struggled to adjust to this sudden transformation. Grounding our work in IT mindfulness literature, we theorize a differential in the students’ learning effectiveness based on the level of their IT mindfulness trait. Further, leveraging the “mindfulness to meaning” theory, we hypothesize the mediating role of techno eustress in the relationship between student IT mindfulness and the two learning effectiveness outcomes of productivity-in-learning and creativity-in-learning. The theorized model is tested via data collected from a two-wave survey among graduate students who had to abruptly switch to an exclusive IT-enabled learning environment during the pandemic lockdown period. Results show that IT mindfulness has a significant positive relationship with both the learning effectiveness outcomes and these relationships are mediated by the students’ techno eustress perceptions. The emerging theoretical and practical implications are also discussed.

INFLUENCE OF SUBJECTIVE FACTORS ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES ON RIVER TRANSPORT

The relevance of the article is confirmed by the need to increase the level of development, implementation and use of information technologies in the field of fleet management. The article substantiates that the main difficulties with implementation are not dictated by objective conditions, but are in the field of subjective attitude of people influencing the development of managerial IT. The role of managers and the impact of organizational decisions on the success of IT development and implementation are shown, both in the past and in at present, which is illustrated in the historical aspect by the example of the Volgotanker shipping company, where the principles of informatization were observed and subjective factors had a strong influence. The author notes lack of demand for analytical IT at the present stage, despite the superiority of the domestic reserve and the high efficiency of modeling the movement of ships and the regulation of running time and fuel consumption by ships. The main directions of increasing the efficiency of IT in river transport in the context of the digitalization of the economy have been formulated.

Current trends and problems of the IT sector in Ukraine: training and migration of IT professionals

Today, the information technology industry is one of the most promising in the world and in Ukraine. The aim of the article is to analyze this industry in the context of human capital and identify key issues that will help the Ukrainian IT sector to reach a new level. The situation in Ukraine, along with world indicators, has a positive trend, especially in comparison with European countries. The main competitors are Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary, but Ukraine remains the main provider of IT services in the UK. In general, the crisis caused by COVID-19 has affected the information services market in Ukraine, but in recent years the upward trend in the staffing of top software companies has remained. At the same time, the crisis in 2020 led to a reduction in vacancies to a level lower than in 2018. Compared to 2019, vacancies were noted by 27.64% more than in the current 2020. It should be noted. That in 2019, IT specialists (FOP) paid UAH 6.1 billion in taxes to the domestic budget, or UAH 35.1 thousand per year from each IT specialist. The authors highlight the following problems of the computer technology sector: low quality of education and training of IT specialists in universities, emigration of highly qualified personnel abroad ("brain drain"), outsourcing of IT companies abroad, non- compliance with global and European standards, low demand for IT -services in the domestic market, the lack of evaluation indicators that can characterize the effectiveness of employees, the relatively high level of taxation of IT companies and sole proprietors and others.

DOMESTIC IT-INDUSTRY IN THE CONTEXT OF WORLD DIGITALIZATION

The article analyzes the development of the domestic IT industry as an element of the global IT market. Today, IT and the associated digitalization of all spheres of human life are important drivers of economic development and social relations. Global digitization is a new step in informatization society. The main components of informatization are computerization, mediation and intellectualization. Computerization ensures full use of computers and related technologies. Mediatization characterizes the coverage of the entire society by intensive information communications. Intellectualization reflects the growing role of knowledge in today's society. Computerization and mediation help to transform the industry economy into a network economy. Its main characteristics are openness, decentralization, self-development, dominance of horizontal ties, autonomy of elements. The technology base for a network economy is global computer networks that are transformed in line with the Internet of Things concept. Demand for IT is driving the development of the global IT industry based on the fourth IT platform. The components of this platform are: implementation of the XaaS/PAYG model; seamless integration of systems; comprehensive process automation; integration into a single ecosystem of assets, devices, data and users; digital transformation of society. International organizations are developing the digital transformation concept. Today, the Ukrainian government has begun to implement a national program of digital transformation of the economy and society that is in line with the global concept. Significant efforts are being made to develop the domestic IT industry, which now occupies a small share of the global IT market. Although its relatively rapid growth rate indicates its high potential. The contribution of the IT industry to the growth of the entire domestic economy is important. The peculiar influence on the current state of the domestic IT industry and the prospects for its development have features of its functioning in the conditions of Ukrainian realities. To reduce the negative impact and enhance the positive trends, it is necessary to conduct systematic scientific studies of the development of the IT industry. Keywords : digitalization, IT industry, computer hardware, software, IT market.

Utilization Of 3d Medical Imaging and Touch-Free Navigation in Endoscopic Surgery: Does our Current Technologic Advancement Represent the Future Innovative Contactless Noninvasive Surgery in Rhinology? What is Next?

There is a growing demand for IT and medical specialists that are able to develop complex IT solutions (such as medical and IT members of our Bitmedix team)

Induced technology hypothesis. Acemoglu and Marx on deskilling (skill replacing) innovations

ABSTRACT The paper hypothesizes that the worldwide market-friendly political/institutional transformations of the early 1980s had an impact on the direction of technological change. Their crucial effect was to make an integrated global labor market politically feasible, which raised demand for what eventually became global value chains and production networks, requiring in turn the further development of IT to lower communication and information costs. IT investment and demand for high skills, driven up by the large set up costs of global networks, eventually stagnated once these networks were in place making the expansion of low-skill employment around the world less dependent on their services.

Government support for transformation of labor relations in IT-sphere in the digital economy

The processes of globalization and the digitization of the economy and society influence the change of production, financial, logistics, distribution relations and significantly transform labor relations. Any changes in the socio-economic sphere have positive and negative consequences, create new threats and opportunities that require in-depth study and development of measures aimed at preventing signs of negative predictions and accelerating positive changes in the social and labor sphere.The introduction of innovative methods of work in various sectors of the economy in line with the new requirements for the quality and speed of business processes in global markets is to a greatly dependent on the providing of human resources for digitalisation at all levels of management. The number and quality of IT specialists training, working conditions, labor rights compliance, government support for development and entrepreneurial activity of IT specialists determine the level of deficits and opportunities for the growth of the offer of IT professionals in the internal labor market. Recent trends in the IT industry, supply and demand, and some issues of government regulation have been researched. Conclusions on the need to strengthen government support to the industry and protect labor rights on Internet platforms and enterprise in the IT sphere were made.The preparation of a new generation of workforce that meets the modern and future needs of the digital economy requires a rapid response from the system of secondary and higher education to create the necessary competences in physics, computer science, chemistry and biology. The introduction of STEM-based education and STEM technologies (S-science, T- technology - E-engineering - M-mathematics) requires government support in the creation of material and technical base, broadband Internet infrastructure and national STEM- specialists according to trends in the labor market. The list of measures recommended for inclusion in the Action Plan for the implementation of the Concept for the Development of the Digital Economy and Society of Ukraine for 2019-2020 and 2021-2030 was developed according to the results of the study.

System Administration and Database Administration in Cloud Computing Era

The ever-changing nature of IT demands a changing role for both system administrators and database administrators. Being system admin personnel will require more knowledge, broader skillset, and more tools on hand to be able to adapt to the cloud computing culture. The cloud computing has changed the way for IT Operations. The future system administrator will thus have to help configure, implement and manage the applications that run on cloud platforms. The same thing happens to database administrators as well. The role of DBAs will shift to cloud DBAs, and adding to their responsibilities will manage the cloud based database and NoSQL databases in serverless settings. Cloud DBAs will have to deal with data protection and play a key role in providing data compatibility across the cloud platforms and maybe migrating data storage from one cloud service provider to another. In short DBAs role moved from tactical infrastructure caretakers towards a more strategic role of being an advisor for other developers. In this poster, we describe changes of roles of system administrators and database administrators in the era of cloud computing.

Information Technology and Returns to Scale

Relying on a novel dataset on hardware and software investments in the universe of French firms, we document a robust within-industry correlation between firm size and the intensity of IT demand. To explain this fact, we argue that the relative marginal product of IT inputs may rise with firm scale, since IT helps firms deal with organizational limits to scale. We propose a general equilibrium model of industry dynamics that features nonhomothetic production functions compatible with this mechanism. Estimating this production function, we identify the nonhomotheticity of IT demand and find an elasticity of substitution between IT and non- IT inputs that falls below unity. Under the estimated model parameters, the cross-sectional predictions of the model match the observed relationship of firm size with IT intensity (positive) and labor share (negative). In addition, in response to the fall in the relative price of IT inputs in post-1990 France, the model explains about half of both the observed rise in market concentration and the market reallocations toward low-labor-share firms.

CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS TO DEVELOPING PHONOLOGICAL COMPETENCE OF TECHNICAL STUDENTS IN ESP TEACHING

The article is focused on the importance of developing phonological competence as one of the integral component of foreign language communicative competence. It describes the challenges in teaching pronunciation to technical learners. Analysis of students’ needs is offered as an effective tool to explore communicative language competences to be developed in ESP to meet the employment market demand for IT and telecoms specialists. The most expedient techniques are described to motivate students to become confident and effective communicators in their academic and job-related environment.