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At the Frontiers of Information and Software as Services

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New Frontiers in Information and Software as Services

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 74))

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The high cost of creating and maintaining software and hardware infrastructures for delivering services to businesses has led to a notable trend toward the use of third-party service providers, which rent out network presence, computation power, and data storage space to clients with infrastructural needs. These third party service providers can act as data stores as well as entire software suites for improved availability and system scalability, reducing small and medium businesses’ burden of managing complex infrastructures. This is called information/application outsourcing or software as a service (SaaS). Emergence of enabling technologies, such as service oriented architectures (SOA), virtual machines, and cloud computing, contribute to this trend. Scientific Grid computing, on-line software services, and business service networks are typical examples leveraging database and software as service paradigm. In this paper, we survey the technologies used to enable SaaS paradigm as well as the current offerings on the market. We also outline research directions in the field.

Authors are listed in alphabetical order. This is a revised and extended version of the theme paper for the first IEEE Workshop on Information and Software as Services: K. Selçuk Candan, Wen-Syan Li, Thomas Phan, and Minqi Zhou. “Frontiers in Information and Software as Services.”First IEEE Workshop on Information and Software as Services, pp. 1761-1768, Shanghai, China, 2009.

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  1. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

    K. Selçuk Candan

  2. SAP, Shanghai, China

    Wen-Syan Li

  3. Microsoft Corporation, USA

    Thomas Phan

  4. Fudan University, Shanghai, China

    Minqi Zhou

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Candan, K.S., Li, WS., Phan, T., Zhou, M. (2011). At the Frontiers of Information and Software as Services. In: Agrawal, D., Candan, K.S., Li, WS. (eds) New Frontiers in Information and Software as Services. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 74. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19294-4_12

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