Architectures in context: on the evolution of business, application software, and ICT platform architectures

An integrated model of innovation drivers for smaller software firms

“…The use of understandings of the probable direction of future evolution of software and hardware infrastructures, platforms and technologies to guide innovation (Aerts, Goossenaerts, Hammer, & Wortmann, 2004;Boland Jr. et al, 2007;Brem & Voigt, 2009b;R. G. Cooper, 2011;Hanninen, 2007;Hung & Whittington, 2011;Napier et al, 2011;Romijn & Albaladejo, 2002;Yang & Hsiao, 2009) User Domain Understanding Using understandings of customers' business domain or specialised internal knowledge to drive innovation (Gray et al, 2011;Hanninen, 2007;Igira, 2008;Koc, 2007;Martin, 2011;Mich, Berry, Anesi, & M., 2005;Raasch, 2011;Weterings & Boschma, 2009;Yang & Hsiao, 2009) …”

“…Exploiting the technical development environment of a software firm to generate innovation (Aerts et al, 2004;Boland Jr. et al, 2007) The principle outputs are software process innovation and software product/service innovation, where process innovation is understood also to influence product and service development. Other concepts are understood to facilitate innovation, with a central group of influences closely associated with the team process (development framework, innovation tools and techniques, creative cognition, teamwork and software design capability).…”

Innovation Drivers and Outputs for Software Firms: Literature Review and Concept Development

“…Finally, the term service is sometimes used to distinguish between application-oriented software innovations and underlying platform innovations. This can be observed with Apple's iOS developer interface which can be seen as a service innovation that opens the way for their apps market [30,31]. As a result, we view innovations in software product and service offerings as one key form of software innovation while nonetheless acknowledging that the specific nature of these offerings is subject to considerable variation.…”

“…Understanding the evolution and trajectory of customer demand (market understanding) and the trajectory of technology development has also been identified as being of some importance to new product development [30,34,39,51,52]. Knowledge of competitors and their innovations is also considered to be important in fostering the development of new generations of software systems [53] as is the ability to leverage user-domain understanding generated from customers [28,[54][55][56].…”

Architectural Frameworks for Business Information System Analysis and Design

“…[17]. Aerts et al [20] describe the three domains for representation by Business architecture which defines the business system in its environment of suppliers and customers, Application architecture which details the software application components and their interaction and Ict platform architecture which is the architecture of computers, networks, operating systems, data base management systems etc.…”