Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/kGQRop The Software Industry Economic Principles, Strategies, Perspectives By: Peter Buxmann; Heiner Diefenbach; Thomas Hess Publisher: Springer Print ISBN: 9783642315091, 3642315097 eText ISBN: 9783642315107, 3642315100 Copyright year: 2013 Format: EPUB Available from $ 79.99 USD SKU 9783642315107 Whether ERP software, office applications, open-source products or online games: In terms of its economic characteristics, software differs fundamentally from industrial goods or services. Based on the economic principles and rules of the software industry, the book reveals strategies and business models to software vendors that comprise cooperation, distribution, pricing and production and industrialization strategies, as well as software as a service and platform concepts. Further aspects including the outsourcing behavior of software vendors and users; providing business software as open source software; selecting software; and the value chains in the software industry are also addressed. Based on a number of expert meetings, it contains numerous case studies and new empirical findings. Target audience of the book are professionals and executives from the software, consulting and IT branches as well as students and scholars of business administration, computer science, business and industrial engineering.
