Employment outsourcing in information systems
Communications of the ACM
Putting the enterprise into the enterprise system
Harvard Business Review
The role of trust in outsourced IS development projects
Communications of the ACM
The myths and realities of information technology insourcing
Communications of the ACM
The relationship advantage: information technologies, sourcing, and management
The relationship advantage: information technologies, sourcing, and management
Out of the Box: Strategies for Achieving Profits Today and Growth Tomorrow through Web Services
Out of the Box: Strategies for Achieving Profits Today and Growth Tomorrow through Web Services
Global Information Technology Outsourcing: In Search of Business Advantage
Global Information Technology Outsourcing: In Search of Business Advantage
European Journal of Information Systems
The ERP Revolution: Surviving vs. Thriving
Information Systems Frontiers
The Vision of Autonomic Computing
Computer
IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results
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Learning to Implement Enterprise Systems: An Exploratory Study of the Dialectics of Change
Journal of Management Information Systems
Service-Oriented Computing: Key Concepts and Principles
IEEE Internet Computing
Toward an on demand service-oriented architecture
IBM Systems Journal
Using Enterprise Architecture Standards in Managing Information Technology
Journal of Management Information Systems
Computing as Utility: Managing Availability, Commitment, and Pricing Through Contingent Bid Auctions
Journal of Management Information Systems
Progress in Web-based decision support technologies
Decision Support Systems
International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Utility computing-based framework for e-governance
Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Theory and practice of electronic governance
Towards an Adoption Model of Grid Information Technology in the Organisational Arena
GRID '06 Proceedings of the 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing
A secure mechanism of group communication for pervasive grid
International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing
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Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Automatic execution of tasks in MiPeG
GPC'07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Advances in grid and pervasive computing
Application service providers: market and adoption decisions
Communications of the ACM
On business grid demands and approaches
GECON'07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Grid economics and business models
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Architectural Requirements for Cloud Computing Systems: An Enterprise Cloud Approach
Journal of Grid Computing
Aspects of data-intensive cloud computing
From active data management to event-based systems and more
Scalable distributed indexing and query processing over Linked Data
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
Framework for enabling highly available distributed applications for utility computing
ISPA'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications
Enterprise architecture, IT effectiveness and the mediating role of IT alignment in US hospitals
Information Systems Journal
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International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing
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In this paper we examine the likely impact of utility computing on information technology (IT) outsourcing. Drawing on a set of eleven outsourcing cases and on IT outsourcing literature, we identify four risks that lessen the potential benefits of IT outsourcing. We consider two approaches to outsourcing: selectively managing a network of outsourcing partners and managing large-scale exclusive partnerships. The firms in our sample introduced a number of popular relationship management practices in order to counter the risks of outsourcing. We describe their practices but then observe that, in addition to the capability of managing their vendor relationships, the firms' ability to generate value from outsourcing depends on the maturity of their IT architectures. We discuss the implications of both vendor relationship management and architecture design capabilities as firms seek the benefits of utility computing, and conclude that both continue to play key roles. We close with some recommendations as to how firms can use relationships to build effective architectures and how an effective architecture built around standards-based technologies and business process components can enable a firm to capitalize on the strategic agility that utility computing offers.