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Measuring the value of IT is always a challenge for investors. Market share for service oriented Information Systems (IS) is constantly growing and it creates the demand for methods of measuring the value of SOA-based IS projects. This research is aimed at adopting existing IT Project assessment methods to this growing demand. The work proposes the method that considers the fact that SOA-based IS deployment and evolution could be split in separate flows, one per service. It will allow usage of individual discount rate values per service since project risk values should be different for different services. It should make project value assessment more accurate comparing to existing methods which use the single flow for the entire project. This research also proposes Real Options for calculating the flexibility fraction of the value. The developed method was verified using own simulation model. Both developed method and the simulation model were applied to value assessment of a real-world project.
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Likhvarev, A., Babkin, E. (2012). Developing the Method for Value Assessment of SOA-Based IS Projects. In: Aseeva, N., Babkin, E., Kozyrev, O. (eds) Perspectives in Business Informatics Research. BIR 2012. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 128. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33281-4_14
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