Analytics is the future of big data because only transforming data into information gives them value and can turn data in business in competitive advantage. Large data volumes, their variety and the increasing speed their growth, stretch the boundaries of traditional data warehouses and ETL...

We live in a dynamic world, in a permanent move, were performance of information systems continually increases. Thus, the need of being informed, regardless of place or time, is very great using data warehouses solutions. Therefore, the need for efficient information systems is very high. The...

Over the past years, data mining became a matter of considerable importance due to the large amounts of data available in the applications belonging to various domains. Data mining, a dynamic and fast-expanding field, that applies advanced data analysis techniques, from statistics, machine...

In the scope of portal development, in order to talk about security issues, concerns, and solutions, it is necessary to define a few terms: authentication, authorization, Single Sign-On (SSO), confidentiality, integrity, and non-repudiation. Focusing on the scope of what the portal developer and...

Nowadays companies are starting to realize the importance of using more data in order to support decision for their strategies. It was said and proved through study cases that “More data usually beats better algorithms”. With this statement companies started to realize that they can chose to...

To be viable, a company must be adapted continously to the market’s requirements. The adaption of a company to the market’s requirements means also changes in the business processes of the firm. Till several years ago, in any enterprise there was a strong link between business processes and...

Temporal database is one of the most common types of databases. Portfolio management, accounting, storage, treatment management systems, aerology systems and scheduling are applications which their data have time references. Temporal nature of data and increasing size of temporal databases due...

This paper describes how data mining is used in cloud computing. Data Mining is used for extracting potentially useful information from raw data. The integration of data mining techniques into normal day-to-day activities has become common place. Every day people are confronted with targeted...

Along with the development of information technology, Business Intelligence plays an important role in banking operation process. Business Intelligence in banking sector is a method of storing and presenting key bank business data so that any key user can quickly and easily ask questions of...

This article defines Cloud Computing and highlights key concepts, the benefits of using virtualization, its weaknesses and ways of combining it with classical VoIP technologies applied to large scale businesses. The analysis takes into consideration management strategies and resources for better...