Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

7-2016

Abstract

Profitability of adopting Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions forexisting applications is currently analyzed mostly in informal way. Informalanalysis is unreliable because of the many conflicting factors that affect costs andbenefits of offering applications on the cloud. We propose a quantitative economicmodel for evaluating profitability of migrating to SaaS that enables potentialservice providers to evaluate costs and benefits of various migration strategiesand choices of target service architectures. In previous work, we presented arudimentary conceptual SaaS economic model enumerating factors that have todo with service profitability, and defining qualitative relations among them. Aquantitative economic model presented in this paper extends the conceptualmodel with equations that quantify these relations, enabling more precisereasoning about profitability of various SaaS implementation strategies, helpingpotential service providers to select the most suitable strategy for their businesssituation.

Keywords

Service provider, Service profitability, Service architecture, Service variability, Service engineering

Discipline

Computer and Systems Architecture | Systems Architecture

Research Areas

Software and Cyber-Physical Systems

Publication

CAiSE 2016: International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, Slovenia, June 13-17

First Page

393

Last Page

408

Identifier

10.1007/978-3-319-39696-5_24

Publisher

Elsevier

City or Country

Slovenia

Additional URL

https://10.1007/978-3-319-39696-5_24

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