Towards the business-information technology alignment in cloud computing environment: Anapproach based on collaboration points and agents

International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1038-1057

  Li, Qing ^a   Wang, Cheng ^a   Wu, Jing ^a   Li, Jun ^a   Wang, Ze Yuan ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

business IT alignment; cloud computing; collaboration point; system integration

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE;

BUSINESS - IT ALIGNMENTS; CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS; CLOUD COMPUTING SERVICES; COLLABORATION POINTS; FUNCTIONAL INFORMATION; INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES; SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISE; SYSTEM INTEGRATION;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 80054685902     PISSN: 0951192X     EISSN: 13623052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0951192X.2011.592994     Document Type: Article

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