Cost accounting for shared IT infrastructures - Estimating resource utilization in distributed IT architectures

Wirtschaftsinformatik

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 83-94

  Brandi, Reinhard ^a   Bichler, Martin ^a   Ströbel, Michael ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b BMW GROUP   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capacity planning; IT infrastructure cost accounting; Queuing network theory; Usage based cost allocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 34948883438     PISSN: 09376429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11576-007-0030-9     Document Type: Article

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