{"title":"A survey of IoT cloud platforms","authors":"Partha Pratim Ray","doi":"10.1016/j.fcij.2017.02.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.fcij.2017.02.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Internet of Things (IoT) envisages overall merging of several “things” while utilizing internet as the backbone of the communication system to establish a smart interaction between people and surrounding objects. Cloud, being the crucial component of IoT, provides valuable application specific services in many application domains. A number of IoT cloud providers are currently emerging into the market to leverage suitable and specific IoT based services. In spite of huge possible involvement of these IoT clouds, no standard cum comparative analytical study has been found across the literature databases. This article surveys popular IoT cloud platforms in light of solving several service domains such as application development, device management, system management, heterogeneity management, data management, tools for analysis, deployment, monitoring, visualization, and research. A comparison is presented for overall dissemination of IoT clouds according to their applicability. Further, few challenges are also described that the researchers should take on in near future. Ultimately, the goal of this article is to provide detailed knowledge about the existing IoT cloud service providers and their pros and cons in concrete form.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100561,"journal":{"name":"Future Computing and Informatics Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"Pages 35-46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.fcij.2017.02.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78396939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mohamed A. Abd Elmonem , Eman S. Nasr , Mervat H. Geith
{"title":"Benefits and challenges of cloud ERP systems – A systematic literature review","authors":"Mohamed A. Abd Elmonem , Eman S. Nasr , Mervat H. Geith","doi":"10.1016/j.fcij.2017.03.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.fcij.2017.03.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems provide extensive benefits and facilities to the whole enterprise. ERP systems help the enterprise to share and transfer data and information across all functions units inside and outside the enterprise. Sharing data and information between enterprise departments helps in many aspects and aims to achieve different objectives. Cloud computing is a computing model which takes place over the internet and provides scalability, reliability, availability and low cost of computer reassures. Implementing and running ERP systems over the cloud offers great advantages and benefits, in spite of its many difficulties and challenges. In this paper, we follow the Systematic Literature Review (SLR) research method to explore the benefits and challenges of implementing ERP systems over a cloud environment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100561,"journal":{"name":"Future Computing and Informatics Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"Pages 1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.fcij.2017.03.003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83323322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An empirical study for integrating XP with VTSP to improve business process","authors":"El Shaymaa Mohamad Nassar , Ramadan Moawad","doi":"10.1016/j.fcij.2016.03.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.fcij.2016.03.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Actual problems that threaten organizations are the excessive unnecessary organizational processes. The Business Process Reengineering (BPR) methodology is developed to improve the return of investment rates within organization. BPR guides to rearranging processes and removing unnecessary ones and consolidating the remaining processes into linear open system. Unfortunately, usage of modern Information Technology doesn't solve such problems in the Middle East countries and especially Egypt and doesn't realize the expected results. The limitations and drawbacks of IT projects refer mainly to the dependency on plan-driven team software process methodology that could not achieve frequently requirement changes of customers and usually exceeds estimated budget of the project. This research adopted the eXtreme Programming methodology using virtual team software process work providers in order to avoid these drawbacks and applied the proposed hybrid methodology to three main departments within Suez Canal Authority in Egypt.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100561,"journal":{"name":"Future Computing and Informatics Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"Pages 53-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.fcij.2016.03.002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73622507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}