IT Professional

Why are software failure rates so high and the impact so large? What are the main reasons for software failure? The five articles in this issue provide a glimpse of software engineering, focusing primarily on the process and product dimensions.

Recently, there has been a great deal of news in the international media pertaining to various disclosures that governments--the US government, in particular--are collecting vast amounts of information from diverse sources in the interest of ...

African software developers are creating and embracing mobile technologies, cloud com-puting, and social media to address their needs in many areas, including banking, informa-tion gathering, farming, healthcare, and education and training. However, in ...

Does your organization have systematic procedures to remove sensitive data from obsolete equipment, or do you use a somewhat ad hoc process for the cleanup and disposal of old gear? Careless disposal of data storage hardware has led to costly and ...

Modern business applications have operational business intelligence features that require processing analytical queries and business transactions together at the same time and on the same data. This results in mixed workloads, which are a big challenge ...

Semi-structured processes are data-driven, human-centric, flexible processes whose execution between instances can vary dramatically. Due to their unpredictability and data-driven nature, it's becoming increasingly important to mine traces of events ...

This study proposes a new two-in-one medical monitoring system that lets medical devices transmit vital sign data to an application host device on a network. The medical monitoring system is based on international standards, providing an interoperable ...

A cost-effective and sustainable healthcare information system relies on the ability to collect, process, and transform healthcare data into information, knowledge, and action. However, in implementing such systems, healthcare providers face many ...

The success of a software product depends not only on the quality of the functions it provides but also on the success of its interdependent hardware, software, and other players within its ecosystem. The software ecosystem studied thus far has largely ...

Math readiness presents a real challenge for both K-12 and college-level education. It affects mathematically intensive science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields of endeavor and threatens our readiness to invent and adapt.

This article is a collection of papers collected from the nonprofits that run three critical frameworks in use by IT organizations around the globe–the Project Management Institute, Capability Maturity Model Integration, and the Innovation Value ...