TY - GEN
T1 - At the frontiers of information and software as services
AU - Candan, Kasim
AU - Li, Wen Syan
AU - Phan, Thomas
AU - Zhou, Minqi
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-19294-4_12
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-19294-4_12
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84876337492
SN - 9783642192937
T3 - Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
SP - 283
EP - 300
BT - New Frontiers in Information and Software as Services
PB - Springer Verlag
ER -