Knowledge and Special Libraries
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Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer
Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer
Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs
Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs
Designing and Evaluating E-Business Models
IEEE Intelligent Systems
The Rise of Web Service Ecosystems
IT Professional
Formation and Early Growth of Business Webs: Modular Product Systems in Network Markets (Information Age Economy)
A Value Network Model for Strategic Analysis
HICSS '08 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
The global brain: your roadmap for innovating faster and smarter in a networked world
The global brain: your roadmap for innovating faster and smarter in a networked world
Quality aspects in service ecosystems: areas for exploitation and exploration
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Electronic commerce
Online support for business processes by electronic intermediaries
Decision Support Systems
Cloud Computing: IT as a Service
IT Professional
Taxonomy of grid business models
GECON'07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Grid economics and business models
Development of a generic value chain for the grid industry
GECON'07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Grid economics and business models
A study on value chain in a ubiquitous computing environment
ICCSA'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Computational Science and Its Applications - Volume Part IV
Future Generation Computer Systems
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With the rise of a ubiquitous provision of computing resources over the past years, cloud computing has been established as a prominent research topic. In contrast to many other research works, this paper does not focus on technical aspects of cloud computing but rather takes a business perspective. By taking this perspective we examine the ecosystem that has developed around cloud computing. Here, new market players emerged, breaking up the traditional value chain of IT service provision. In this paper we describe the roles of different market actors and develop a generic value network of cloud computing, using the e3-value method. Based on interviews with domain experts we were able to draw first estimates regarding possible future value streams within the ecosystem. Extending the prevailing technical perspective of cloud computing, this paper shifts the focus to a broader understanding of business opportunities and business value. Researchers can apply the developed generic value network as an analytical framework to guide their research, while practitioners might apply it to position themselves in the cloud computing market and identify possible business opportunities.