A Profile of the Software Industry
Title | A Profile of the Software Industry PDF eBook |
Author | Sandra A. Slaughter |
Publisher | Business Expert Press |
Pages | 287 |
Release | 2014-08-15 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1606496557 |
Software plays a critical role in today’s global information economy. It runs the computers, networks, and devices that enable countless products and services. Software varies in size from vast enterprise and communications systems like the enormous enterprise resource planning system from SAP to the tiny app Angry Birds. This book offers a profile of the software industry and the companies in the industry. It describes the primary products and services produced; reviews its history; explains how the industry is structured; discusses its economics and competitive environment; and examines important trends and issues including globalization, workforce, regulation, and the emergence of new software business models. Software runs the computers and networks that support the flow of information in the global economy, and this book provides a real look at the intricacies of this industry.
The Software Industry
Title | The Software Industry PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Buxmann |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 229 |
Release | 2012-09-12 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 3642315097 |
Whether ERP software, office applications, open-source products or online games: In terms of its economic characteristics, software differs fundamentally from industrial goods or services. Based on the economic principles and rules of the software industry, the book reveals strategies and business models to software vendors that comprise cooperation, distribution, pricing and production and industrialization strategies, as well as software as a service and platform concepts. Further aspects including the outsourcing behavior of software vendors and users; providing business software as open source software; selecting software; and the value chains in the software industry are also addressed. Based on a number of expert meetings, it contains numerous case studies and new empirical findings. Target audience of the book are professionals and executives from the software, consulting and IT branches as well as students and scholars of business administration, computer science, business and industrial engineering.
A Profile of the Software Industry
Title | A Profile of the Software Industry PDF eBook |
Author | Sandra Slaughter |
Publisher | |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Software plays a critical role in today's global information economy. It runs the computers, networks, and devices that enable countless products and services. Software varies in size from vast enterprise and communications systems like the enormous enterprise resource planning system from SAP to the tiny app Angry Birds. This book offers a profile of the software industry and the companies in the industry. It describes the primary products and services produced; reviews its history; explains how the industry is structured; discusses its economics and competitive environment; and examines important trends and issues including globalization, workforce, regulation, and the emergence of new software business models. Software runs the computers and networks that support the flow of information in the global economy, and this book provides a real look at the intricacies of this industry.
A Profile of Nigeria's Software Industry
Title | A Profile of Nigeria's Software Industry PDF eBook |
Author | H. Abimbola Soriyan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 16 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Computer software industry |
ISBN | 9781904143598 |
Profile of the Manitoba Software Industry
Title | Profile of the Manitoba Software Industry PDF eBook |
Author | Industry Development Program (Manitoba) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Computer software industry |
ISBN |
From Underdogs to Tigers
Title | From Underdogs to Tigers PDF eBook |
Author | Ashish Arora |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 2005-03-03 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0199275602 |
Given that the software industry is commonly viewed as a high-tech industry, how is it that its spectacular growth has occurred in countries where high-tech industries would not seem likely to develop? This book examines the reasons behind this phenomenon, and asks whether it suggests a new model of economic development.
Productive Objects
Title | Productive Objects PDF eBook |
Author | Robert J. Muller |
Publisher | Morgan Kaufmann |
Pages | 740 |
Release | 1997-08 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 9781558604377 |
Introduces, in simple text and photographs, the characteristics of some of the animals and plants that can be found in the forest. Includes a chipmunk, box turtle, fern, bull moose, moth, ermine, and white birch.