Business application acquisition: On-premise or SaaS-based solutions?

IEEE Software

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 86-93

  Bibi, Stamatia ^a   Katsaros, Dimitrios ^b   Bozanis, Panayiotis ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

cloud computing; SaaS; software as a service; software cost metrics; TCO; total cost of ownership

Indexed keywords

SAAS; SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE; SOFTWARE COST; TCO; TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP;

CLOUD COMPUTING; COSTS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 84857180990     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2011.119     Document Type: Article

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