...In computer security, Discretionary Access Control (DAC) is a type of access control in which a user has complete control over all the programs it owns and executes, and also determines the permissions other users have those those files and programs. Because DAC requires permissions to be assigned to those who need access, DAC is commonly called described as a "need-to-know" access model. In computer security, discretionary access control (DAC) is a type of access control defined by the Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria[1] "as a means of restricting access to objects based on the identity of subjects and/or groups to which they belong. The controls are discretionary in the sense that a subject with a certain access permission is capable of passing that permission (perhaps indirectly) on to any other subject (unless restrained by mandatory access control)". Discretionary access control is commonly discussed in contrast to mandatory access control (MAC, sometimes termed non-discretionary access control). Occasionally a system as a whole is said to have "discretionary" or "purely discretionary" access control as a way of saying that the system lacks mandatory access control. On the other hand, systems can be said to implement both MAC and DAC simultaneously, where DAC refers to one category of access controls that subjects can transfer among each other, and MAC refers to a second category of access controls that imposes constraints upon the first. In computer security...
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...MKWI 2010 – Unternehmensberatung im IT-Umfeld 611 CRM Evaluation An Approach for Selecting Suitable Software Packages Ina Friedrich1, Jon Sprenger2, Michael H. Breitner2 1Accenture GmbH Campus Kronberg 1, 61476 Kronberg ina.friedrich@accenture.com 2Institut 1 für Wirtschaftsinformatik, Leibniz-Universität Hannover Königsworther Platz 1, 30167 Hannover {sprenger|breitner @iwi.uni-hannover.de} Introduction Customer Relationship Management (CRM)1 has been discussed in the literature since the nineties. IT evaluation on the other hand dates back to the eighties starting with a more contemporary approach (Farbey et al. 1999, p. 191). As reported by earlier works, the success rate of CRM implementation projects is up to today still not satisfactory (Becker et al. 2009; Finnegan and Currie 2009). Reasons for failing the expectations of involved parties are diverse, but can be summarized under the three dimensions: people, process and technology (Figure 1). Due to the described quality problems and the speed of evaluation results becoming outdated, new CRM solutions or updated versions of established products continuously enter the market. CRM solutions range from simple address and activity management applications to integrated software packages linking front office and back office functions (Chen and Popovich 2003, p. 673). Hence, there exists a multitude of different characterizations for CRM. For the context of this paper a definition by Goldenberg (2000) is used, who describes...
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...Strategies for Information Systems Evaluation- Six Generic Types Stefan Cronholm and Göran Goldkuhl Linköping University, Sweden scr@ida.liu.se ggo@ida.liu.se Abstract: The aim of this paper is to contribute to the decision of how to perform evaluation depending on the evaluation context. Three general strategies of how to perform evaluation are identified: Goal-free evaluation, goal-based and criteria-based evaluation. Two general strategies of what to evaluate are identified: IT-system as such and IT-system in use. From the three “how-strategies” and the two “what-strategies” we derive a matrix consisting of six generic types of evaluation. Each one of the six types are categorised on a ideal typical level. For each type there is suggested evaluation process model. Keywords: IS Evaluation, IS Assessment, Information Systems, Goal-based evaluation, Goal-free evaluation, Criteria-based evaluation 1. Introduction All over the world there is a huge amount of money spent on IT (e.g. Seddon, 2001). It is therefore important to evaluate the outcome. Evaluation is never an easy task and consequently there are a lot of suggestions for how to evaluate IT-system. Much of the literature on evaluation takes a formal-rational view and sees evaluation as a largely quantitative process of calculating the likely cost/benefit on the basis of defined criteria (Walsham, 1993). There are also interpretative approaches (e.g. Remenyi, 1999; Walsham, 1993). The interpretative perspective views...
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...Int. J. Services and Operations Management, Vol. 7, No. 4, 2010 465 An AHP framework of supplier evaluation with reference to high-value and critical items: a case study Debadyuti Das* Faculty of Management Studies University of Delhi 110 007 Delhi, India E-mail: debadyuti_das@yahoo.co.in *Corresponding author Deepak Barman Faculty of Management Studies Banaras Hindu University 221 005 Varanasi, India E-mail: dbarmanbhu@rediffmail.com Abstract: This study developed a simple two-stage decision framework for evaluating suppliers of high-value and critical items with reference to a heavy engineering organisation by employing the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The first stage involved examining the qualifying criteria of the items on quality, while the second stage was concerned with identifying all other relevant attributes, including quality concerning high-value and critical items applicable to the organisation under study, and with finding out the relative importance of the same. The attributes were organised in a two-tier hierarchy showing four major criteria in the first tier and 17 subcriteria in the second tier. This enabled us to employ AHP to find out the relative importance of each individual subcriterion through pair-wise comparison between all major criteria and subcriteria by eliciting opinions from three experts. The findings indicated the quality/reliability of the items to be the most important criterion, followed by price and then technological capability...
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...Rubric Examples Oral Presentation I | |Beginning |Novice |Proficient |Exemplary | | |The presentation is at a |The presentation may show |The presentation is |The presentation is exemplary | | |beginning stage. |flashes of quality, but could |acceptable, but could be | | | | |be improved in several |improved in a few important | | | | |important ways. |ways. | | |Content |The presentation does not |Important information is |Information is complete with |Information is complete and | | |include information on the|missing, or there are few |basic supporting details, |well supported by detail, | | |major points. |supporting details. |increasing audience knowledge|significantly increasing the | | | | |at least to some degree. |audience's knowledge of the | | | | ...
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...|[pic] |Syllabus | | |College of Information Systems & Technology | | |WEB/240 Version 1 | | |Web Design Fundamentals | Copyright © 2013 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course introduces development tools and techniques used to publish web pages on the World Wide Web. Students use basic hypertext markup language, scripting, and presentational technologies to create websites with the aid of a software authoring application. Topics include XHTML, CSS, JavaScript®, server hosting, site publication, site maintenance, and search engine optimization. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at...
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...YOUR JOB AS A BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT IS TO 1) Analyze the problems in the business, 2) Research solutions and/or benchmark good practices, 3) Make suitable recommendations for improvements, and 4) Help the business to implement these recommendations satisfactorily. TEAM ASSIGNMENTS PRESENTATION: 15 MINUTES LEARNING OUTCOME 2: Be able to use the concepts of segmentation, targeting and positioning 2.1 Show macro and micro environmental factors which influence marketing decisions 2.2 Propose segmentation criteria to be used for products in different markets 2.3 Choose a targeting strategy for a selected product/service 2.4 Demonstrate how buyer behavior affects marketing activities in different buying situations 2.5 Propose new positioning for a selected product/service Submission Deadline: November 16, 2015 TEAM ASSIGNMENT: AC 2.1 Show macro and micro environmental factors which influence marketing decisions Guiding Term Paper Questions The business believes that competition from nearby businesses is preventing it from growing and increasing sales. However many other micro and macro factors are impacting sales and its marketing decisions. So show the macro and micro environmental factors that are impacting the performance of the business and explain how they are affecting business marketing decisions? COURSE OUTLINE: Macro environment: Environmental scanning; Political, legal, economic, sociocultural, ecological and technological...
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...ENGLISH 102 PAPER #1: Evaluation of a Website Minimum Word Count: 750 words Due Date: See Schedule of Assignments LEARNING OUTCOMES: 1. To understand the broader concept of “text” as a combination of visual, verbal, and contextual information. 2. To understand the role of audience in understanding the information. 3. To use skills in writing summary, analysis, interpretation, and evaluation. 4. To incorporate a graphic element as visual support in the textual analysis. 5. To quote from and document an online source correctly. ASSIGNMENT: 1. Read Chapter 13: Evaluations from The Norton Field Guide. 2. Select a Website of your own choosing for this evaluation assignment. However, consider the requirements of this assignment before deciding upon the site since some sites may lend themselves to evaluations better than others. 3. Include at least one screen capture, placed after the second paragraph (the summarizing paragraph) of your paper. See the handout on Using Graphics for Word 2007 posted in Angel for help with this assignment. 4. Prepare a paper of 750+ words. Include brief quotations from the Website in your body paragraphs, and document the site at the end of the paper. The paper needs the following parts: 1. Introduction—provides a brief summary, a context for analysis, and an evaluative thesis. 2. Criteria/Body Paragraphs—decide on an order for analyzing the Website and structure paragraphs accordingly. ...
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...Employee Selection Criteria Ami Williams Argosy University Employee Selection Criteria The purpose of this paper is to discuss the steps necessary to re-evaluate the selection criteria for a corporation that has undergone corporate restructuring. This company has hired Joe, an Organizational Development consultant, to moderate the changes being made during the restructuring. There have been jobs eliminated and jobs added within the corporation, so Joe is in the process of re-evaluating the selection criteria for the new job descriptions. The following stages of re-evaluating that criteria will be discussed in this paper the base rate of successful employees, predictive validity, concurrent validity, and avoiding discrimination. Base Rate of Successful Employees The success rate or base rate of successful employees is the percentage of employees that were successful before the changes were made in the selection criteria (Argosy, 2015). Joe will be able to get this information in the company’s employee performance evaluation records. He can then use the base rate of success to test the validity of the new selection criteria. Predictive Validity Predictive Validity tests compare test scores from one time frame to job performance at a future time frame (Argosy, 2015). In order for Joe to demonstrate that the old and new selection criteria predict job performance he will need to conduct a predictive validity test. Joe can compare test scores that...
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...SUBDOMAIN 317.1 - ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR & LEADERSHIP Competency 317.1.6: Performance Evaluation - The graduate can develop and recommend how to implement effective performance evaluation processes. Objectives: 317.1.6-03: Define what should be evaluated in a performance evaluation. 317.1.6-04: Compare the relative value of common sets of evaluation criteria. 317.1.6-05: Explain how it can be advantageous to have supervisors, peers, and subordinates all participate in the evaluation process. 317.1.6-06: Explain how it can be disadvantageous to have supervisors, peers, and subordinates all participate in the evaluation process. 317.1.6-08: Compare and contrast common performance evaluation methods. 317.1.6-09: Give examples of errors and biases that commonly impact the accuracy of performance evaluations. 317.1.6-10: Select techniques that can be used to improve performance evaluations in a given situation. Introduction: In this task you are presented with a management incident that requires you to apply sound performance appraisal concepts to the situation. Given: An engineer was hired two years ago at a mid-sized manufacturing plant. The engineer previously worked in the aerospace industry and is a bright, detail-oriented person and a hard worker. The engineer has suggested changes at the plant that resulted in considerable savings on manufacturing energy costs and eliminated a significant safety hazard that had been overlooked by the previous engineer. However, some co-workers...
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...Evaluation of Software Quality Krzysztof Sacha Warsaw University of Technology, Nowowiejska 15/19 00-665 Warszawa, Poland k.sacha@ia.pw.edu.pl Abstract. The paper describes a method, which we used to evaluate the expected quality of software that was developed for a huge governmental system. The evaluation lasted nearly two years and was performed along with the software development process. The output that was expected by our customer consisted of a quality assessment accompanied by a set of recommendations on what to do in order to enhance the quality of the product. 1 Introduction The ultimate goal of software engineering is to find methods for developing high quality software products at reasonable cost. As computers are being used in more and more critical areas of the industry, the quality of software becomes a key factor of business success and human safety. Two approaches can be followed to ensure software quality. One is focused on a direct specification and evaluation of the quality of software product, while the other is focused on assuring high quality of the process by which the product is developed. The software industry is currently entering a period of maturity, in which particular informal approaches are specified more precisely and are supported by the appropriate standards. Quality characteristics of software products are defined in ISO/IEC 9126 [1]. For each characteristic, a set of attributes which can be measured is determined. Such a definition...
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...Instructions and Forms PERFORMANCE EVALUATION CRITERIA Secretary job description: Each team will elect one secretary. It is the secretary’s job to compile all the individual positions (rewritten articles) into one cohesive document to present to the opposing team and instructor. It is the secretary’s duty to set the due date and time for this and complete the cut and pasting and copying for class to present on assigned due date. It is NOT the secretary’s job to phone and remind fellow teammates to complete the work or that the work has not been received. If a student fails to provide the articles to the secretary, the secretary is to leave those articles blank and the student will be required to discuss the infraction with the instructor. President job description: Each team will elect one president. It is the president’s job to be the team leader, to coordinate all outside meetings and to assist fellow teammates in understanding the overall contract. The president may also be of assistance during the negotiation, but not take over the negotiation. Chief Financial Officer description: Each team will elect one CFO. It is the CFO’s job to help other team members with the financial aspect of the contract. It would be good if the CFO also kept track of the overall financial impact of the negotiation. Team Performance Criteria 1. Your team’s compliance with confidential parameters, limits, and guidelines 2. The evaluation of your team by your opposition ...
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...Article Evaluation Assignment Instructions Purpose: In this assignment, you will apply the skills you learned from Chapter 8 of the textbook, and the course presentation on research. You must review this material before beginning the assignment. Overview: You will locate, evaluate, and cite an article for a pretend research paper. While you will not need to write an actual paper, you will need to demonstrate your ability to conduct a search on the Jerry Falwell Library website, evaluate an article for quality and credibility, and cite your sources with integrity. Instructions: In this assignment, you will: * Choose a topic to research from the options in Step 1. * Search for and locate an appropriate article for your paper. Your article must be: * Appropriate for writing a paper on the chosen topic (relevant). * Written by a credible author. * Scholarly in nature. * Current for the field of research—in this instance, no more than 5 years old. * Objectively written. * Evaluate your article for quality and credibility. * Cite your source with integrity. ------------------------------------------------- Follow the steps below and record your responses to each question in the space provided. ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Note: Your score for this assignment is based on your accurate evaluation of your chosen article, not on meeting the criteria of the...
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...Usability Evaluation of a Medium-sized ERP System in Higher Education Brenda Scholtz, André Calitz and Charmain Cilliers Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa brenda.scholtz@nmmu.ac.za andre.calitz@nmmu.ac.za charmain.cilliers@nmmu.ac.za Abstract: The critical importance of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems in modern business has created a demand for ERP consultants with the appropriate competencies to implement, maintain and support these systems. Education and training programmes have been implemented in order to provide ERP specialists and graduates with the required industry relevant ERP competencies. The majority of these education and training programmes utilise large ERP systems for instructional purposes, however users of these systems encounter usability issues whilst learning to use the systems. The use of medium-sized ERP systems has been proposed for educational purposes as they are less complex and easier to learn than large ERP systems. Empirical studies on the usability of ERP systems, particularly for medium-sized ERP systems are limited. This paper reports on empirical research on the usability evaluation of a medium-sized ERP system. The study identified three categories of criteria and 10 criteria which can be used for usability evaluations of medium-sized ERP systems. The criteria were used in a case study to evaluate the usability of a medium-sized ERP system and to obtain qualitative feedback on the usability of the...
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...Evaluating Assignment Evaluation is a form of argumentative writing in which the writer must make a firm judgment about something and persuade the reader that this judgment is sound. The judgment must express the difference between the criteria (ideal) and the evidence (real) in an orderly, logical fashion. With a specific audience in mind, evaluate a consumer product or service, book, work of art or movie. Make sure you can observe the object of your evaluation more than once. You are allowed to use some sources other than your product, and if you do you must include an appropriate reference page, works cited or bibliography. You are not allowed to cite reviews of your product. If you have another idea for your evaluation, it must be approved by your instructor. The essay that you write should arrive at a judgment based on the criteria you establish and the evidence you collect. Length: 780-1200 words but no more than five double-spaced pages. Audience: must be at least a college-level reader. The final draft of this essay is due on ____________________________. Three copies of your rough draft are due__________________________. Evaluation: I will read the final draft of your essay with the following questions in mind: 1. Does the writer present the subject in an interesting and informative way, providing enough–but not too many–details (evidence) to orient the reader/audience? Is the evidence varied, correctly cited, and relevant to the audience...
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