Beyond cost: The drivers of COTS application value

IEEE Software

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 64-69

  Keil, Mark ^a   Tiwana, Amrit ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PURCHASING; RELIABILITY;

COMMERCIAL-OFF-THE-SHELF (COTS) SOFTWARE; FUNCTIONALITY; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 21244433596     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2005.58     Document Type: Article

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