Essays about: "empirical cost studies"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 191 essays containing the words empirical cost studies.

1. 21. Replacing batch-based data extraction withevent streaming with Apache Kafka : A comparative study

   University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för programvaruteknik

   Author : Richard Axelsson; [2022]
   Keywords : etl; kafka connect; resource consumption; sql server;

   Abstract : For growing organisations that have built their data flow around a monolithic database server, anever-increasing number of applications and an ever-increasing demand for data freshness willeventually push the existing system to its limits, prompting either hardware upgrades or anupdated data architecture. Switching from an approach of full extractions of data at regularintervals to an approach where only changes are extracted, resource consumption couldpotentially be decreased, while simultaneously increasing data freshness. READ MORE

3. 22. Manufacturing Reshoring among Swedish Firms

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Industriell teknik

   Author : Negar Ghasemi Rad; [2022]
   Keywords : reshoring; manufacturing; reshoring drivers and barriers; reshoring trend in Sweden; Swedish firms’ expectations; offshoring; location advantages;

   Abstract : Due to the global nature of business, the dispersion of international geographical activities has increased and location decision-making has become a critical strategic decision for companies. Recent research, on the other hand, has begun to report on an opposite movement. READ MORE

4. 23. Twice the price : An empirical study in procurement of homogenousgoods for Swedish municipalities

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Nationalekonomi; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten

   Author : Farzam Ebrahimi; Jakob Sunström; [2022]
   Keywords : Procurement; Municipalities; Price discrepancies; Homogenous goods; Opportunism; Transaction Costs; Horizontal Integration; Asymmetric information;

   Abstract : Background: Studies of complex and big-ticket tenders such as construction contracts have been the main research focus of public procurement. The efficiency of these low frequency transactionsis inherently hard to study, since the real world offers a wide range of variables that could explain the discrepancies. READ MORE

5. 24. Scalability and Economy of Amazon Lambda, EKS, and ECS

   University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Fakulteten för datavetenskaper

   Author : Bashar Altaleb; Muhamed kheer Abo Khalaf; [2022]
   Keywords : Amazon Lambda scalability and economy; Amazon EKS scalability and economy; Amazon ECS scalability and econom;

   Abstract : Cloud computing is the current need and the futuristic strategy of many businesses. Economy and scalability are inevitable because they impact the flourishing of all online businesses. READ MORE

6. 25. Risk management in project portfolio management - An empirical study

   University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola

   Author : Soheil Saadatmand; Zuher Abdel Mallak; [2022]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : Background: Risk management is an important element in project portfolio management; however, it is not widely practiced in the organisations due to the associated time and cost to the processes and lack of interconnection between different projects within project portfolios.  Objectives: The aim of this study is to analyse different parameters affecting the quality of the risk management within projects and project portfolios, and how the risk management quality is related to the firm performance. READ MORE