Maintaining ERP packaged software - A revelatory case study

Journal of Information Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 65-90

  Ng, Celeste See Pui ^a   Gable, Guy G ^b  

^a YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Maintenance data; Maintenance management; Maintenance measurement; Packaged software; Software engineering standard; Software maintenance process

Indexed keywords

EID: 77749279674     PISSN: 02683962     EISSN: 14664437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jit.2009.8     Document Type: Article

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