Abbass Ghanbary

This chapter is an investigation into the effects of communication and Information Technology, the computer in particular, on our society and individual evaluating how computers...

Web Services (WS) technologies, generally built around the ubiquitous Extensible Markup Language (XML), have provided many opportunities for integrating enterprise applications....

Due to the complexity and globalization among modern-day businesses, organizations now turn to collaborative processes in order to remain competitive. Collaborative Business...

The modern business age is about astute collaboration. This is so because the nature of competition amongst businesses has changed significantly. The core change has resulted...

This chapter describes the fundamentals of technologies such as Web Services (WS) and mobile technologies that provide the basis for modem-day business collaboration. These...

This chapter starts with a discussion on global collaborative business. The initial discussion in this chapter is on why and how a global collaborative business is brought about....

This chapter describes the Collaborative Business Process Engineering (CBPE) model. This model is the core model for business collaboration and is the main contribution of this...

This chapter discusses the role of information system architectures in Collaborate Business Process Engineering (CBPE). Thus, in this chapter, there is an extension of the...

This chapter describes the modeling of the Collaborative Web Based System (CWBS). This CWBS is the means by which the CBPE model, discussed earlier in this book, is practically...

This chapter discusses the effect of the technologies of Web Services (WS) and Mobile Technologies (MT) on the organizational structure of an enterprise. Subsequently, this...

This chapter discusses the important issues related to quality management, quality assurance and testing of information systems that are used by collaborative business. The...

This chapter discusses the importance of the socio-cultural factors of collaboration. This social influence is experienced not only in the society where the customers exist, but...

This chapter discusses the importance, relevance and the activities related to managing change in a business as it undergoes transformation to a collaborative business. One of...

This chapter describes a case study that is carried out in an organization that provides physical security services in Australia. The case study has been carried out with the aim...

This chapter describes a case study carried out in a large energy provider organization. The case study demonstrates the application of the CBPE model in practice. This chapter...

The following is the survey that was used, in detail, to elicit data related to collaborative business, business processes and mobile technologies.

This chapter investigates opportunities to integrate mobile technologies within an organization’s enterprise architecture (EA), with an emphasis on supply chain management (SCM)...

This chapter investigates opportunities to integrate mobile technologies within an organization’s enterprise architecture (EA), with an emphasis on supply chain management (SCM)...

Web Services (WS) technologies, generally built around the ubiquitous Extensible Markup Language (XML), have provided many opportunities for integrating enterprise applications....

Web Services (WS) technologies create the potential for an organization to collaborate with partners and customers by enabling its software applications to transact over the...

This chapter is based on a study at a selected organization to evaluate the impact of mobile technology and collaborative environment on its business processes. The existing...

Web Services (WS) technologies, generally built around the ubiquitous Extensible Markup Language (XML), have provided many opportunities for integrating enterprise applications....

This chapter discusses the results of an action research project carried out at ImpexDocs in Sydney, Australia, by the lead author. The purpose of this action research was to...

Emerging mobile technologies have changed the way we conduct business. This is because communication, more than anything else, has become extremely significant in the context of...

Organizations are globalizing their business primarily due to the communications capabilities offered by Internet technologies. As a result, there are global business processes...

This chapter investigates opportunities to integrate mobile technologies within an organization’s enterprise architecture (EA), with an emphasis on supply chain management (SCM)...

Web Services (WS) technologies, generally built around the ubiquitous Extensible Markup Language (XML), have provided many opportunities for integrating enterprise applications....

This chapter investigates opportunities to integrate mobile technologies within an organization’s enterprise architecture (EA), with an emphasis on supply chain management (SCM)...

Organizations are globalizing their business primarily due to the communications capabilities offered by Internet technologies. As a result, there are global business processes...

Emerging mobile technologies have changed the way we conduct business. This is because communication, more than anything else, has become extremely significant in the context of...