To provide and consume software and hardware as services, labeled under the umbrella term “cloud computing”, has proved to be a sustainable trend, both in the B2C and in the B2B market (Bandulet et al.
2010). Usually, we distinguish between the concepts of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). While IaaS provides hardware virtually and “on demand”, SaaS offers software applications which can be used via the Internet or other networks. The concept of Platform-as-a-Service often remains invisible to the user as it provides the necessary operating platforms for the virtually provided applications. Nevertheless, the PaaS concept has successfully shown to be a service model that can be offered independently, as the Google App Engine or Force.com of Salesforce.com exemplify. Thus, PaaS extends the role model of the SaaS ecosystem to the platform provider as an additional actor and thus offers interesting new aspects to Information Systems research and the software industry. …
WI – WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK – ist das Kommunikations-, Präsentations- und Diskussionsforum für alle Wirtschaftsinformatiker im deutschsprachigen Raum. Über 30 Herausgeber garantieren das hohe redaktionelle Niveau und den praktischen Nutzen für den Leser.
BISE (Business & Information Systems Engineering) is an international scholarly and double-blind peer-reviewed journal that publishes scientific research on the effective and efficient design and utilization of information systems by individuals, groups, enterprises, and society for the improvement of social welfare.
Texte auf dem Stand der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, für Praktiker verständlich aufbereitet. Diese Idee ist die Basis von „Wirtschaftsinformatik & Management“ kurz WuM. So soll der Wissenstransfer von Universität zu Unternehmen gefördert werden.
