Enterprise Infrastructure Research Articles

РАЦИОНАЛЬНЫЕ СПОСОБЫ ВНЕДРЕНИЯ РЕЗУЛЬТАТОВ ФУНДАМЕНТАЛЬНЫХ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЙ В ЭЛЕКТРОЭНЕРГЕТИЧЕСКОЙ СФЕРЕ

The article deals with the issues of enhancing scientific research and development, modernizing production, creating modern technologies and developing human resources for the formation of an innovative infrastructure for enterprises in the electric power industry. The features of innovative projects related to the development and construction of electric power facilities are disclosed. Based on the analysis of world experience in innovative design, the choice of methods for the feasibility study of projects and the stage of development work aimed at modifying and improving previously operated means of production, materials used, and production technologies is analyzed. The directions of the perspective functioning of the enterprises of the electric power industry, the requirements for the ability of the project to generate, provide self-financing and rational ways of practical implementation of the results of fundamental research at enterprises are outlined.

Забезпечення якості роботи підприємств автомобільної інфраструктури з позиції ергономіки

The article identifies the important role of automotive infrastructure in the transport system, identifies its components, outlines the application of ergonomics in the road transport system, reveals the multilevel structure in the system "driver-car-road-car infrastructure", within the system established the spiral nature of its elements. which provides for the constant repetition of actions and measures aimed at improving working conditions, which is happening at the highest level, justified, promising areas of automotive infrastructure. An integral part of road transport is the road infrastructure, which provides favorable conditions for the proper implementation of transport companies' mission. Despite the fact that the road infrastructure is not directly involved in transportation, its role is equally important, because it creates the minimum and additional conditions for road transport to perform its function - to ensure efficient, comfortable and safe transportation of passengers and goods. In the conditions of dynamic development, an important task of the automobile infrastructure enterprises is to establish effective system interaction by coordinating the actions of all components of road transport processes within a single system. The use of a systematic approach in this case allows to ensure the high quality of enterprises in the field by combining the production potential of man, technical means and the environment. These elements form a holistic system "man-machine-environment" (LTS) [6, p.163], which is the subject of study of ergonomic science and has significant potential in terms of improving the quality of the system. The article defines that the peculiarity of the system is its tendency to entropy, resulting in the evolution of its elements. At the same time, the improvement of one of the elements unbalances the system and leads to the evolution of its other subsystems, which again stabilizes its state, but at a higher level. It is substantiated that such development of the studied processes is characterized by a spiral tendency of development, according to which the actions and reactions of the elements of the system are constantly repeated, but each time at the highest level.

Метод оценки уровня благонадежности сотрудников в системе кадровой безопасности предприятия (на примере предприятий критической информационной инфраструктуры (КИИ))

The article discusses a method for assessing the level of trustworthiness based on the compilation of a competence profile. This method provides a qualitative assessment of employee competencies and has been applied to employees employed at critical information infrastructure enterprises. The article presents the approbation data, shows the consistency of the expert assessment.

Research on Sustainable Development of Transport Infrastructure Based on Corporate Culture and Low-Carbon Perspective.

Excellence in corporate culture is the key to achieving sustainable business development. Sustainability can be a source of success, innovation and profitability for a company, driving the achievement of low-carbon goals for transport infrastructure enterprises. The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between corporate culture and corporate sustainability from the perspective of transport infrastructure enterprises, and to identify which corporate culture factors may have an impact on the sustainable low carbon development of transport infrastructure enterprises. To achieve this, we constructed a structural equation model based on 351 cases in Hunan Province and examined the relationship between corporate culture and sustainable low-carbon development using partial least squares structural equation modeling. The findings suggest that corporate values and corporate culture management capabilities play an important role in promoting sustainable development of transport infrastructure enterprises at the economic and low-carbon levels.

Infrastructure Connectivity and Enterprise Performance: Quasi-natural Experiment based on China Railway Express

The Belt and Road initiatives (BRI) has promoted the trade exchanges between China and the countries along the route. The opening of the CHINA RAILWAY Express (CR express), its core achievement, has promoted the infrastructure connection between China and other countries, and has a profound impact on the development of Chinese enterprises. Under the profound adjustment of the current international investment and trade pattern and the rules of multilateral investment and trade, it is of great practical significance and theoretical value to study the impact of the opening of CR express on enterprise performance. Based on the micro data of 8,770 A-share manufacturing listed companies from 2009 to 2015, this paper constructs Differences-in-Differences model (DID) to investigate the impact of the launch of CR express on enterprise performance. The study found that the opening of CR expresses significantly improved enterprises performance. Moreover, with the increase of the distance between the spokes, the promoting effect is gradually weakened. This paper reveals the promotion and influencing mechanism of the opening of CR express on enterprise performance, which has some enlightening effect on the further research of CR express station planning and other issues.

Flow modeling of high-viscosity fluids in pipeline infrastructure of oil and gas enterprises

Today, the issues related to solving the problem of finding an effective distribution of oil flows through the system of oil pipelines in order to reduce the total energy consumption are relevant. The solution to this problem is connected with selection of rational pumping modes for various technological sections of oil pipelines using modern methods of mathematical programming or new techniques for improving the energy and transport characteristics of oil.Reducing energy consumption during pumping of crude through oil trunk pipelines can be achieved by various methods. Numerous investigations in this direction are mainly carried out to save energy on separate single-line pipelines. However, due to the development of the network of trunk oil pipelines in the world over the past decades, the issues of energy efficient management of oil flows throughout the entire oil pipeline system of oil and gas enterprises become urgent.This paper analyses parameters for pipeline transport of high-viscosity and heavy oils. The article proposes a method for assessing the rheological properties of oil for further planning of pumping taking into account the preservation of oil quality and an increase in energy and transport characteristics. The proposed solutions and tasks for predicting changes in the viscosity-temperature characteristics of the flow for blends of different oil types are especially relevant in the current conditions of an increase in the share of oil production with complex rheological characteristics. Results of the presented investigations may be used for planning the measures of efficient transportation of high-viscosity and heavy oils.

Economic and Mathematical Modeling of the Integration Impact of Modernization on Increasing the Enterprise Competitiveness

Within the article, the economic model of the integration impact of modernization on the enterprise competitiveness and ensuring its economic security is described and substantiated. The authors formalize the factors and patterns of increasing a competitive advantage under the influence of the modernization potential implementation. It is determined that to ensure the competitiveness and economic security of the enterprise it is necessary to carry it out in compliance with the conditions of complexity of strategic reforms, clarity of modernization tasks, speed of adaptation of the modernization process to external environment, coherence of reform levels. Assessment and strategic analysis of competitiveness according to the "3S" model of Ukrainian infrastructure enterprises revealed the dependence of the effectiveness of modernization on the existing institutional and market environment, the level of staff competence, the dynamism of innovation and investment support.

Territorial Dimension for Sustainable Development of Infrastructure Enterprises: Information and Administrative Component

The article reveals important territorial aspects of sustainable development of infrastructure enterprises from information and administrative component on the example of local territories (communities) of the Donetsk region in Ukraine. A point-rating evaluation of the territorial dimension for sustainable development of infrastructure enterprises in the Donetsk communities carry out on the parameters, which focus on a set of statistical data in the context of the economic, social and environmental components. The authors built a three-dimensional model of the evaluation results in a Cartesian coordinate system, which made it possible to identify a direct relationship between the sustainable development components of infrastructure enterprises as well as its information and administrative support. It concluded to strengthen the sustainable development components in the local measurement as well as it substantiated and noted to form a special roadmap for ensuring high-quality information and administrative support for the sustainable development planning of infrastructure enterprises.

Технологии добычи металлических руд и здоровье населения горнодобывающего региона

The issues of preventing chemical exposure of the products of mining and processing of mineral raw materials on the population of mining facilities are considered. The results are presented concerning assessment of the correlation between the intensity of chemical pollution of the infrastructure of mining enterprises and the health of miners and the population living in the vicinity of a mining enterprise by means of clinical and biochemical examination of residents. It is established that the negative effect of mining production on the health of the population is a consequence of development technologies with the abandonment of untreated ores in the cavities, where physicochemical processes of natural leaching are developing. It is shown that the known methods of fixing dumps reduce only the parameters of dust pollution without effecting the contamination of the territory with metal solutions, and the forms of finding chemical elements in the tailings of processing do not prevent their inclusion in the biological cycles of living creatures, therefore, the radical measure to prevent progressive morbidity is only the extraction of metals from the tailings of ore processing during disposal. It is established that the speed and direction of exomorphodynamic processes are determined by the parameters of movement of the mobile fractions of metallic minerals. The activity of natural leaching processes is a consequence of the development technologies and can be reduced by using controlled leaching of metal-containing minerals. The formula for the dependence of the parameters of chemical pollution on the distance to the pollution focus is obtained. The assessment of social damage from the effect of the polluted environment on health of the population only by expanses on the treatment of the population and social security services during disability is incorrect, because the impact of metals is much larger. The use of tailings for processing waste from the mining cycle after bringing it to a safe state in terms of metal content allows to reduce morbidity of workers and the population of residential areas of mining production.

Why Business Digitalization Is Still So Risky

Due to rapid IT advances and escalated globalization, business digitalization has been accelerating. However, the average success rate of such endevors remains low. As an attempt to reveal why the digital transformation of a business is still so risky, this research analyzes how commonly encountered risks in IS projects are responded to and how the responses affect project outcomes. Resulting from the authors' previous work, they hypothesize that information systems are much more complex as they play an increasingly pivotal role in executing most business functions, and subsequently, the risk pattern of IS projects may have evolved, and that as businesses keep adding more information systems to the enterprise infrastructure, rather than via a piecemeal approach, a framework for enterprise-wide digital integration must be established to guide and evaluate business digitalization. The finding from this research should largely validate their hypotheses and allow them to call for a refocus of the efforts on digitalizing an enterprise.

Economic mechanism of urban passenger transport’s sustainable development

The article is designed and formulated to define and ensure sustainable development of urban passenger transport, which is an essential component of the business strategies of enterprises automobile and highway transportation and promoting of the development of transport traffic. The article describes and investigates the current state of infrastructure and activities of urban passenger transport enterprises, namely the quality of services, existing conditions, internal and external factors of development of urban passenger transport enterprises. Covers the main problems of activity in the field of urban passenger transport, offers a methodology for developing measures to ensure sustainable development of urban passenger transport enterprises to maintain the quality and economic efficiency of such enterprises. Thereby providing existing social needs and defines a ways to meet them. The study based the mechanism on the renewal of rolling stock in accordance with the Euro-5 standard (in accordance with the procedure for conducting a tender for passenger transportation and the procedure for state technical inspection) to ensure the environmental component and improve the quality of transport services. The development of the mechanism for ensuring the sustainable development of enterprises is the initial event in the process of ensuring and calculating the effect of the organizational and economic mechanism for ensuring the sustainable development of urban passenger transport enterprises. This mechanism will provide a solid foundation for sustainable development of the transport industry and the creation of a free and competitive market for transport services. It is also necessary to understand the strong factor impact on an extensive system of this scale, so the implementation of this mechanism should prepare not only the calculation of resources for direct support of the process, but also the staff who will coordinate the implementation of the mechanism. The use of such a mechanism encompasses and encourages all participants in the interaction to make certain efforts with motivation for the joint positive effect of its implementation.

The emergence of the United Arab Emirates as a global soft power: current strategies and future challenges

Using the Soft Power 30 Index, this research focusses on assessing the soft power status of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) by examining the elements of its soft power and potential challenges it may face in the future. This study conducts in-depth interviews with foreign diplomats and academics based in the UAE and Emirati diplomats and academics. These data are supplemented with primary and secondary data from governmental and international agencies as well as media sources. The UAE’s case demonstrates that soft power can be consciously developed by any country regardless of its regime type, size, location, and religious or racial background by getting its domestic affairs in order. A country’s domestic success in governance, enterprise, culture, education and digital infrastructure leads to global attraction, which ultimately enhances the image of a country such as the UAE. It eventually creates opportunities for more global partnerships and engagements in the areas of multilateralism, philanthropy, peacebuilding, conflict resolution and event hosting. However, these efforts face the following challenges: the threat of widely diffused actions among public and private actors, the financial cost of soft power engagement and projections, the UAE’s lack of a global media platform for shaping global agendas and its increasing use of hard power in response to geopolitical threats which can negatively affect its image.

Improving the public administration of investment projects under 
 the public-private partnership (on the example of airport infrastructure development of the Russian Federation)

In the modern economy, very often there is the problem of lack of state funding in major infrastructure projects. In this regard, partnership between the public and private sectors of the economy is becoming a more effective way of solving problems related to the modernization of transport infrastructure, construction and provision of services, the development of urban areas. Especially of public-private partnership mechanism true for regional economies, where thanks to it there is a more dynamic development of local capital markets, goods and services. The study analyzed the conceptual apparatus, essence and forms of public-private partnership, identified the features and risks in the implementation of PPP projects, assessed the results of global and domestic experience in the use of public-private partnerships, developed recommendations for improving the procedures for implementing public-private partnerships in the field of development of the infrastructure of the Russian airport enterprises.

The wild west? Complementor performance following antitrust intervention against a dominant platform

Drawing on research on competitive repositioning, we analyze the relation between a regulatory intervention against a dominant technology platform and complementor performance. We examine whether antitrust regulators can spark new opportunities for complementors by weakening a dominant platform’s market power. Using a dataset on enterprise infrastructure software from 1998-2004, and a difference-in-differences design using matching and synthetic controls, we examine the relationship between the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust intervention against Microsoft (a dominant enterprise server platform) and subsequent value creation and value capture by enterprise infrastructure applications firms (complementors). The data show that value creation—measured by citation-weighted patents of complementors—is increased following the antitrust intervention. In contrast, value capture—measured by profitability—is reduced. The findings suggest a social benefit to antitrust enforcement in the form of increased innovation but caution that disrupting the “order” of an industry may lead to wasteful development and losses in efficiency.

Scalable Architectural Pattern for Integrating Syslog Servers with Splunk

An enterprise infrastructure consists of several devices. The devices emit event notifications representing their current state. The devices without storage such as printers and routers are configured to send the event notifications in the form of syslogs to one or more remote syslog servers over the network. Depending on the size and usage of the enterprise infrastructure, millions of syslogs may be emitted per second. These syslogs are used by the system administrators to detect and address the anomalies in the infrastructure. The system administrators often integrate the syslog servers with Log Analysis tools that offer aggregation, analytics, and visualisation capabilities. Splunk is one such popular tool that can be integrated with syslog servers. This paper proposes an architectural pattern for syslog servers that are to be integrated with Splunk for better performance, scalability and resilience.

New reality: Current issues of logistics infrastructure development in the context of the spread of coronavirus

The study analyses the current issues of logistics infrastructure development and the impact of modern information technologies on it. The influence of the spread of the coronavirus pandemic on the change of conventional business models and relations between consumers and manufacturers, the study of customer experience based on digital technologies, and the trends in the development of new strategic aspects caused by the high uncertainty due to the unpredictability of the lifting of quarantine measures. The implementation of digital transformation in an enterprise requires the development of a strategic plan that includes an analysis of the individual features of the organisation of business processes, the development of the architecture of transformed products and services, new models of interaction with customers, and the analysis and development of an organisational structure that can function effectively during the transformation. The study describes the potential for growth and development of companies in the implementation of digital transformation and the development of digital partnership on the example of foreign and national companies, examines the principles of digitalisation and identifies the reasons for the slow introduction of innovations in the logistics infrastructure. The study considered the main aspects of modern information technologies implemented at logistics infrastructure enterprises, as well as possible risks of the transition period, including risks associated with the low maturity of the infrastructure of certain companies. The main purpose of substantiating the presented hypothesis is to study the mechanisms of optimisation of operational activities in the implementation of digital technologies at the regional and international levels and to assess the impact of digitalisation processes on the re-profiling of personnel and the renewal of human resources. In the course of the study, methods of comparison and analogy, analysis, and synthesis were used. The methodological framework of the study includes the system and institutional approaches to the development of a digital platform for the effective development of logistics infrastructure. The author believes that the main component of a successful digital transformation of a company is the presence of a strategic plan that includes a vision for the transformation of products and services, as well as interaction with customers, taking into account the individual characteristics of the structural organisation and organisation of each particular enterprise.

A comprehensive study of the role of cloud computing on the information technology infrastructure library (ITIL) processes

PurposeInformation technology infrastructure library (ITIL) is a commonly utilized IT service management execution technique that helps IT services to be planned, designed, selected, operated and continuously improved. ITIL procedures are utilized to measure the efficiency of IT service management procedures and their association with the accelerated system development of cloud systems. The challenges faced in IT deployment and maintenance management significantly restrict cloud computing services' reliability. Therefore, this article aims to review a comprehensive study of the role of cloud computing on the ITIL processes.Design/methodology/approachEach enterprise strives to stay competitive in the market and offers the services its consumers are looking for, all in line with cost-effectiveness and client needs. The ITIL framework provides best practice guidance for IT service management that includes a collection of ample publications supplying detailed guidelines on the management of IT functions, processes, responsibilities and roles associated with IT service management. On the other hand, the way companies employ IT services with an effect on the role of enterprise infrastructure is altered by cloud computing. Hence, the investigation makes utilization of a systematic literature review (SLR) detailing crucial success factors of cloud computing execution in ITIL. The authors have recognized 35 valuable contributions, providing a comprehensive view of study in this field, of which 22 papers were found according to some filters that have been analyzed in this article. Selected articles are presented in two groups, including cloud service and cloud service providers.FindingsOwing to the overall expense of execution and problems with combining the ITIL approach with the existing organizational IT strategic strategy, ITIL adoption has begun to wane over the last few years. An established methodology for ITIL deployment that will assure long-term success for those wanting to use private cloud procurement will be the most important inference that can be taken from this article. ITIL offers a perfect platform to execute and support cloud applications effectively. IT will prevent cloud sprawl and instability, reduce the likelihood of service interruption and optimize customer loyalty by merging humans, procedures and technologies into hybrid environments.Research limitations/implicationsThis survey is more aimed at specialists such as IT experts; so, further evaluations must also be carried out in order to understand the company's views on the risks and advantages of adopting ITIL. In addition, non-English articles are not discussed in this article.Practical implicationsThe study outcomes would help suppliers of cloud computing services assess their service quality and ensure customer satisfaction with the quality of cloud computing services. The outcomes will also supply a reference for cloud infrastructure customers to assess and choose various kinds of cloud computing services.Originality/valueAn SLR with perspectives from ITIL professionals and business studies is the benefit of this report. By offering a more thorough framework that helps companies achieve efficiency, effectiveness and creativity in ITIL execution, this article would be useful for ITIL clients, decision-makers and developers.

Development of the digital model of the loading and transport enterprise infrastructure in a coal mining region

An argument for developing an infrastructure digital model of the loading and transport enterprise in a coal mining region is presented on the example of Kuzbass in accordance with the natural resources of the coal basin, the existing transport and logistics infrastructure and the needs of the domestic and world coal market. Optimization of traffic flows from producer to consumer is the main direction for development of facilities of transport and logistics infrastructure at a loading and transport enterprise. The scheme of the transport and logistics infrastructure of the loading and transport enterprise was digitized. A computer program for cognitive modeling was developed based on the construction of a fuzzy cognitive map and the choice of an optimal graph scheme from a set of options according to a given criterion. The strength of the system impact on the concept, the strength of the concept impact on the system, the consonances of the concepts impact on the system and the system on concepts are taken as indicators for assessing the options for developing the transport and logistics infrastructure of the loading and transport enterprise. Based on the simulation results, the main significant factors-concepts were identified, which are ranked as follows: the coal market, internal control actions, seasonal phenomena, communication and signaling.

An Analysis of Enterprise Resource Planning System Usage to Improve Business Process Performance

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is an information system which integrates business functions and processes. ERP systems are widely used in different commercial organizations and industries. For a number of reasons, ERP can be the cause of success in an organization and help improve individual’s performance in an organization by supporting better decision making. It is especially useful in helping an organization improve its productivity, reduce its operational cost and improve quality by efficient use of resources and effective communication. ERP implementation strategy greatly influences an industry‘s business process performance and can help lower organizational resistance to it. It also plays a vital role for business process performance because there is a passionate reaction to ERP that is a characteristic response to change connected with new innovation in an organization. This work is conducted to evaluate the ERP implementation and its influence on enterprise infrastructure, especially how the business performance is improved. The method used in this study is survey based, using interviews from more than 100 experts from different organizations in Karachi, Pakistan. The results show significant role of ERP system in raising business process performance of the organizations. Overall, ERP system impacts heavily an industry in terms of business process performance and also helps improve individual performance, considering how organizational resistance is managed using various strategies and communicating well.

Comparative analysis of the organization of cloud infrastructure

Most technology experts consider cloud computing to be one of the most influential IT trends of the twenty-first century. Over the past two decades, cloud computing has made significant changes in the IT industry, and most organizations now use the cloud-first approach in their technology needs. The cloud platform is a set of services and credentials provided by developers. They provide users with access to computing resources and analytics tools, as well as data warehouses, servers, software, etc., for regular users and large companies. Cloud computing is a new model of providing and using a variety of IT resources, including computing power (servers), storage space, network bandwidth and applications. Resources in this model are pooled and provided on demand, and payment is made for actual use. The model itself is highly adaptable and has excellent network access capabilities. Cloud computing has many advantages over traditional enterprise infrastructure solutions, offering services and services, and more. Such advantages include: flexibility, scalability, payment for actual use, high reliability, and failover. Cloud computing can significantly improve the availability of IT resources and provide many advantages over other computing methods. For example, they can provide access to services without interacting with service providers. And all the resources on the cloud are available to any user, ie users can dynamically rent physical or virtual resources and do not need to know their origin or place of residence. In addition, all resources on the cloud computing platform can be deployed quickly and without stopping.