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IT outsourcing business tends to be the domain of large companies. However, with increase saturation of outsourcing market among large companies, the under-exploited SME market emerges as a potentially lucrative playground for vendors. SMEs, confined by limited resources, can benefit from having external services. Literature…

Today e-commerce has become crucial element to transform some of the world countries into an information society. However, several calls have been made to meet the association between the perceptions of e-commerce adoption barriers in developing countries. This paper focuses on the main challenges facing…

The industry landscape in telecommunications is changing rapidly at the moment. Services are increasingly shifting from voice to data and from circuit-switched to packet-switched ones. LTE and WiMAX are the two technologies poised to dominate next generation mobile networks. Battle between LTE & WiMAX technologies…

This research aims to understand and explain customers continued intention to use internet banking in Egypt. The research starts with reviewing well-known theories of  behavioural intentions  such as  the theory of reasoned action, the theory of planned behaviour, the theory of decomposed  planned behaviour, the…

In this paper, a novel for Query Translation and Expansion for enabling English/Arabic CLIR for both normal and OCR-Degraded Arabic Text model has been proposed, implemented, and tested. First, an English/Arabic Word Collocations Dictionary has been established plus reproducing three English/Arabic Single Words Dictionaries. Second,…

This paper aims to investigate the factors that influence cohesion and success of an IS project team. Based on the literature regarding project team success and IS, a complex framework has been adopted in order to develop the research model for the study. Consequently, the…

In this paper we present a new framework to process high-volumes of data generated from heterogeneous sources with different formats (text, image’s features …etc.). The framework consists of three phases.  The first phase selects appropriate data reduction technique that closely preserves all of the relevant…

The concept of B2B (Business-To-Business) e-Marketplace provides a new dimension in facilitating the marketers to work more effectively in particular when making critical marketing decision. Benefiting from the Internet technologies, the range of advantages that can be gained from the B2B e-Marketplace is extensive. This…

The global business world has created incentives for information technology to develop and serve complicated tasks that companies’ management sets. The paper focuses first on the evolution of the information technologies up to contemporary world of business intelligence (BI) applications, providing a clear background of…

E-learning  is  widely  used  in  universities  and  other  organizations  all  over  the  world,  either  to support classroom learning or on its own. The Palestine Polytechnic University (PPU) is no exception. Usually, a special kind of web-based content management system is used for running e-learning courses. …