IT service businesses can achieve economies of scale and scope faster than in traditional product businesses. In particular, as IT service platforms will become the founding infrastructure of our economies, the analysis and understanding of the value that a service platform can generate is of...

In this paper, we present an agent-based simulation system that allows modeling the interactions between software buyers and vendors in a software market. The market offers Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and perpetual software (PS) licenses under different pricing schemes. Four dynamic pricing...

Companies' need to streamline their costs, especially in the current crisis, has led to the search for solutions to reduce the expenses with specialized personnel, licenses purchase, investment in equipment, amortization of these costs and other expenses related to their maintenance. The complex...

Cloud computing is among the most discussed issues in the information communication and technology (ICT) sector. Information technology (IT) infrastructure is altered by the business methods due to cloud computing and moved ahead towards a utility model of ‘pay as you go’. Instead of...

As with WEB 2.0 everything seems to be moving and changing with a fast pace and companies have to keep up by bringing new technology within their departments in order create a strong competitive advantage. That is why cloud computing is at the moment all the rage, its become the phrase du jour...