Eldar Sultanow

A Semantic e-Collaboration Approach to Enable Awareness in Globally Distributed Organizations

Collaboration in temporal and spatially distributed environments has consistently faced the challenge of intense awareness extensively more than locally concentrated team play. Awareness means being informed, in conjunction with an understanding of activities, states and relationships of each individual within a given group as a whole. In multifarious offices, where social interaction is necessary to share and locate essential information, awareness becomes a concurrent process that amplifies the exigency for easy routes where personnel can navigate and access pertinent information, deferred or decentralized, in a formalized and context-sensitive way. Even as awareness has become a more pressing topic, extensive disagreement still remains concerning how any type of transparency can be conceptually and technically implemented. This paper introduces an awareness model to visualize and navigate such information in multi-tiers using semantic networks, GIS Geographic Information Systems and Web3D. Ultimately, the model presented is used for an evaluation from a business organizations perspective.

Cloud Computing for Big Data Entrepreneurship in the Supply Chain: Using SAP HANA for Pharmaceutical Track-and-Trace Analytics

This paper focuses on the real-world use of cloud-based analytics for supporting medication track-and-trace and monitoring safety and quality in the pharmaceutical supply chain. The paper describes a track-and-trace system developed by German start-up XQS-Service GmbH and adopted by manufacturers, wholesalers, pharmacies and clinics in Germany. The paper also discusses the benefits of using in-memory computing to process large amounts of big data to support efficient and effective medication track-and-trace.

AN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MODEL FOR PHARMACEUTICAL SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY

How to ensure non‐manipulated, original pharmaceutical products to be sold to the final consumer is a matter of national interest. In this contribution we are going to present an approach which combines both information technology as well as process reengineering to ensure pharmaceutical correctness and safety of the drugs sold. Firstly, requirements for a model will be determined. Secondly, existing approaches and their pitfalls are presented. Finally, we will introduce a new model for controlling the security of pharmaceutical supply chains.

A Reference Architecture for Digitalization in the Pharmaceutical Industry.

Digital transformation (also called digitalization or, to a lesser extent, digitization) can enhance the customer experience, streamline operations, revolutionize existing business models, and disrupt entire industries. In this paper, we explore the opportunities for digital transformation in the pharmaceutical industry and develop a pharma-specific reference architecture for digitalization. We build on a model initially developed internally at Capgemini and show how it can be used to describe the use of several emerging digital transformation technologies: Internet of Things (IoT), Cognitive Computing (CC) and Augmented Reality (AR). Our analysis presents the architectural implications of each of these technologies for the pharma industry from the perspectives of four standard TOGAF domains (covering the technology, application, data and business architecture) and of four digitalization steps (Sense, Tag and Connect, Ingest, Analyze and Prepare, and Utilize). We also present an integrated view of the business capabilities all three technologies offer to organizations.

Multi-tier-Based Global Awareness Modell for Collaboration and Knowledge Management

Collaboration in temporal and spatially distributed environments has consistently had to deal with the challenge of intense awareness, extensively more than locally concentrated team play. Awareness means being informed, in conjunction with an understanding of activities, states and relationships of each individual within a given group as a whole. In multifarious offices, where social interaction is necessary in order to share and locate essential information, awareness becomes a concurrent process that amplifies the exigency of easy routes for personnel to be able to access this information, deferred or decentralized, in a formalized and context-sensitive way. Although the subject of awareness has immensely grown in importance, there is extensive disagreement about how this transparency can be conceptually and technically implemented. This paper introduces a model in order to visualize and navigate such information in multi-tiers using semantic networks, GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and Web3D.

Multi-tier-based Global Awareness - A Model for Collaboration in Distributed Organizations and Disaster Scenarios

Collaboration in temporal and spatially distributed environments has consistently had to deal with the challenge of intense awareness, extensively more than locally concentrated team play. Awareness means being informed, in conjunction with an understanding of activities, states and relationships of each individual within a given group as a whole. In multifarious offices, where social interaction is necessary in order to share and locate essential information, awareness becomes a concurrent process that amplifies the exigency of easy routes for personnel to be able to access this information, deferred or decentralized, in a formalized and context-sensitive way. In special cases that become increasingly contemporary, ambulance personnel and rescue forces need to get a vast overview of the current situation, resources available at present and courses of action. Although the subject of awareness has immensely grown in importance, there is extensive disagreement about how this transparency can be conceptually and technically implemented. This paper introduces a model in order to visualize and navigate such information in multi-tiers using semantic networks, GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and Web3D. Moreover the model is used for creating scenarios; for an evaluation from a business organizations perspective, as well as from a scientific perspective on disaster recovery.

Resolve dissatisfactory communications: a measurement-method for satisfied communication in business organizations

Communication in widely distributed organizations is in many cases unsatisfactory. This contribution presents a method, which enables scalability for satisfied communication in business organizations. This method has been applied in practice and further evaluated by two IT-companies, which operate globally in the field of Web Engineering, E-Commerce and Usability. In the course of the evaluation for a one-month period, personnel were introduced to a checklist, which is specially designed for capturing communication dissatisfaction. The findings within these two companies are alarming in several respects. Many communication channels, which personnel choose by default, are inadequate and thus unacceptable for them and for the respective communication partners.