Platform as a Service - A conjoint study on consumers' preferences

International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2012

Volumn 4, Issue , 2012, Pages 2800-2819

  Giessmann, Andrea ^a   Stanoevska, Katarina ^b  

^a SAP Research Center St Gallen   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Business model; Cloud computing; Cloud platform; Platform as a Service

Indexed keywords

ATTRIBUTE LEVELS; BUSINESS MODELING; BUSINESS MODELS; CLOUD PLATFORMS; CONSUMERS' PREFERENCES; EXECUTION ENVIRONMENTS; LITERATURE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE PLATFORMS;

CLOUD COMPUTING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SURVEYS;

PLATFORM AS A SERVICE (PAAS);

EID: 84886490226     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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