Abstract:Software as a Service (SaaS) has become an important pragmatic in the world of enterprise software and business services markets. SaaS supports the concept of outsourcing where business processes are offered under a service level agreement for a given price. However, sourcing SaaS may not always involve outsourcing with respect to the transfer of internal activities and resources to external service providers. Users of SaaS need to know what strategies to use when determining sourcing requirements. In this pap… Show more
“…Shaya discussed the usage of the Kraljic's portfolio model for optimizing the process of sourcing IT and managing software licenses at Skanska ITN [38]. Gangadharan et al proposed using Kraljic's portfolio model for mapping SaaS services and sourcing structure [39]. To the best of our knowledge, no study has suggested using Kraljic's model in the context of OSS ecosystems and creation of contribution strategies for software artifacts.…”
Section: The Kraljic Portfolio Purchasing Modelmentioning
“…Shaya discussed the usage of the Kraljic's portfolio model for optimizing the process of sourcing IT and managing software licenses at Skanska ITN [38]. Gangadharan et al proposed using Kraljic's portfolio model for mapping SaaS services and sourcing structure [39]. To the best of our knowledge, no study has suggested using Kraljic's model in the context of OSS ecosystems and creation of contribution strategies for software artifacts.…”
Section: The Kraljic Portfolio Purchasing Modelmentioning
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.