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Authors:
Subhankar Sarkar
Keywords: COTS; ERP; Composition based systems; Component evaluation; Cost of Ownership; Tradeoff Analysis
Abstract:
Current methods of COTS selection have not been widely accepted in industry, and have been found to lack architectural orientation and a Cost of Ownership perspective. This paper reviews the current methods, and proposes a new method - Architecture Centric Tradeoff (ACT) – for COTS decision support. ACT prescribes a 3-layer Metamodel, Heuristics for Cost of Ownership computations, and a Processor that iterates through candidate solutions to find the optimal tradeoff. In ACT, COTS selection is not driven solely by functional features, but also by architectural characteristics. ACT also takes into account IT portfolio convergence and various COTS delivery methods such as SaaS and Cloud services.
Pages: 122 to 128
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012
Publication date: November 18, 2012
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4235
ISBN: 978-1-61208-230-1
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Dates: from November 18, 2012 to November 23, 2012