期刊论文详细信息
Australasian Journal of Information Systems
Small and Medium Enterprises using Software as a Service: Exploring the different roles of intermediaries
Shane Mathews1  Michael Rosemann1  Nagarajan Venkatachalam1  Erwin Fielt1 
[1] Queensland University of Technology
关键词: SaaS;    Software as a Service;    SaaS Intermediaries;    SME;    SaaS Vendors;   
DOI  :  10.3127/ajis.v18i3.1101
学科分类:计算机科学(综合)
来源: University of Canberra * Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineering
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【 摘 要 】

Software as a Service (SaaS) can provide significant benefits to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) due to advantages like ease of access, 7*24 availability, and utility pricing. However, underlying the SaaS delivery model is often the assumption that SMEs will directly interact with the SaaS vendor and use a self-service approach. In practice, we see the rise of SaaS intermediaries who can support SMEs with sourcing and leveraging SaaS. This paper reports on the roles of intermediaries and how they support SMEs with using SaaS. We conducted an empirical study of two SaaS intermediaries and analysed their business models, in particular their value propositions. We identified orientation (technology or customer) and alignment (operational or strategic) as themes for understanding their roles. The contributions of this paper include: (1) the identification and description of SaaS intermediaries for SMEs based on an empirical study and (2) understanding the different roles of SaaS intermediaries, in particular a more basic role based on technology orientation and operational alignment and a more value adding role based on customer orientation and strategic alignment. We propose that SaaS intermediaries can address SaaS adoption and implementation challenges of SMEs by playing a basic role and can also aim to support SMEs in creating business value with SaaS based solutions by playing an added value role.

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