Enrique Castro-Leon

Clear, transparent, reliable carbon accounting makes good business sense, improving a company’s reputation and trustworthiness while providing an opportunity for market differentiation. In this Advisor, we describe the seven essential practices of a cross-industry generally accepted carbon accounting principles (GACAP) system. 1. Interoperability Across Sectors A global carbon accounting system requires interoperability between industry sectors and verticals.

Abstract The goal of service orientation is to attain a structural cost reduction in the delivery of IT services through reuse and standardization. However, the transition from a traditional system to one based on services requires breaking monolithic applications into standard services, often with Web front ends to facilitate reuse not only within, but also without.

ABSTRACT: While the idea of virtual service-oriented grids may be a new business concept, the technologies that build the groundwork for this idea go back many decades to the early days of computing research. That being said, the combination of these technologies brings non-functional, yet significant capabilities to a system.