DocumentCode :
127649
Title :
SaaS Architecture and Pricing Models
Author :
Laatikainen, Gabriella ; Ojala, Arto
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Syst., Univ. of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland
fYear :
2014
fDate :
June 27 2014-July 2 2014
Firstpage :
597
Lastpage :
604
Abstract :
In the new era of computing, SaaS software with different architectural characteristics might be priced in different ways. Even though both pricing and architectural characteristics are responsible for the success of the offering, the relationship between architectural and pricing characteristics has not been studied before. The present study fills this gap by employing a multi-case research. The findings accentuate that flexible and well-designed architecture enables different pricing models, however, poorly designed architecture limits also the pricing. Scalability and high level of modularity are the major enablers of a great variety of pricing models. Using public cloud services may lead to introducing usage-based pricing or in the contrary, making the pricing simpler. Applying multi-tenancy lowers the customizability, consequently the customers´ negotiation power decreases. Pricing may give special requirements to the architectural design, such as scalability, customizability and additional components.
Keywords :
cloud computing; pricing; software architecture; SaaS architecture; SaaS pricing models; public cloud services; software-as-a-service; usage-based pricing; Cloud computing; Companies; Computer architecture; Pricing; Software as a service; SaaS; SaaS architecture; cloud; pricing;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Services Computing (SCC), 2014 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Anchorage, AK
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-5065-2
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/SCC.2014.84
Filename :
6930585
Link To Document :
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