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Conceptualizing Cloud-Platforms as Service Systems

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Exploring Services Science (IESS 2012)

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Cloud-platforms are of increasing importance for the provisioning of computing services because they enable the co-creation of value in an unprecedented way. To fully leverage the benefits it is necessary to know about the sources of value co-creation. The sources for value co-creation in cloud-platforms can be identified by conceptualizing cloud-platforms and analyzing operations on the conceptualization entities. To properly conceptualize cloud-platforms, configurations and configuration items are introduced as new entities. The set of operations on configuration items mirrors the value-co-creation capabilities of cloud-platforms. Thus, by enumerating the operations on configuration items, the value-co-creating capabilities of cloud-platforms can be determined and compared.

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  1. Aalen University, Anton-Huber-Str. 25, 73430, Aalen, Germany

    Rainer Schmidt

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    Mehdi Snene

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Schmidt, R. (2012). Conceptualizing Cloud-Platforms as Service Systems. In: Snene, M. (eds) Exploring Services Science. IESS 2012. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 103. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28227-0_20

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