Ebook: The Software Industry: Economic Principles, Strategies, Perspectives
- Tags: Management/Business for Professionals, Business Information Systems, Innovation/Technology Management, e-Commerce/e-business, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Whether ERP software, office applications, open-source products or online games: In terms of its economic characteristics, software differs fundamentally from industrial goods or services. Based on the economic principles and rules of the software industry, the book reveals strategies and business models to software vendors that comprise cooperation, distribution, pricing and production and industrialization strategies, as well as software as a service and platform concepts. Further aspects including the outsourcing behavior of software vendors and users; providing business software as open source software; selecting software; and the value chains in the software industry are also addressed. Based on a number of expert meetings, it contains numerous case studies and new empirical findings. Target audience of the book are professionals and executives from the software, consulting and IT branches as well as students and scholars of business administration, computer science, business and industrial engineering.
Whether ERP software, office applications, open-source products or online games: In terms of its economic characteristics, software differs fundamentally from industrial goods or services. Based on the economic principles and rules of the software industry, the book reveals strategies and business models to software vendors that comprise cooperation, distribution, pricing and production and industrialization strategies, as well as software as a service and platform concepts. Further aspects including the outsourcing behavior of software vendors and users; providing business software as open source software; selecting software; and the value chains in the software industry are also addressed. Based on a number of expert meetings, it contains numerous case studies and new empirical findings. Target audience of the book are professionals and executives from the software, consulting and IT branches as well as students and scholars of business administration, computer science, business and industrial engineering.
Whether ERP software, office applications, open-source products or online games: In terms of its economic characteristics, software differs fundamentally from industrial goods or services. Based on the economic principles and rules of the software industry, the book reveals strategies and business models to software vendors that comprise cooperation, distribution, pricing and production and industrialization strategies, as well as software as a service and platform concepts. Further aspects including the outsourcing behavior of software vendors and users; providing business software as open source software; selecting software; and the value chains in the software industry are also addressed. Based on a number of expert meetings, it contains numerous case studies and new empirical findings. Target audience of the book are professionals and executives from the software, consulting and IT branches as well as students and scholars of business administration, computer science, business and industrial engineering.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Rules in the Software Industry....Pages 3-17
Economic Principles in the Software Industry....Pages 19-53
Software Vendor Strategies....Pages 55-110
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Outsourcing and Offshoring of Software Development....Pages 113-153
Platform Concepts....Pages 155-167
Software as a Service: The Application Level of Cloud Computing....Pages 169-190
Open Source Software....Pages 191-210
Back Matter....Pages 211-223
Whether ERP software, office applications, open-source products or online games: In terms of its economic characteristics, software differs fundamentally from industrial goods or services. Based on the economic principles and rules of the software industry, the book reveals strategies and business models to software vendors that comprise cooperation, distribution, pricing and production and industrialization strategies, as well as software as a service and platform concepts. Further aspects including the outsourcing behavior of software vendors and users; providing business software as open source software; selecting software; and the value chains in the software industry are also addressed. Based on a number of expert meetings, it contains numerous case studies and new empirical findings. Target audience of the book are professionals and executives from the software, consulting and IT branches as well as students and scholars of business administration, computer science, business and industrial engineering.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Rules in the Software Industry....Pages 3-17
Economic Principles in the Software Industry....Pages 19-53
Software Vendor Strategies....Pages 55-110
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Outsourcing and Offshoring of Software Development....Pages 113-153
Platform Concepts....Pages 155-167
Software as a Service: The Application Level of Cloud Computing....Pages 169-190
Open Source Software....Pages 191-210
Back Matter....Pages 211-223
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