Paper Info
Title
A Case Study on the Multicriteria Selection of Software Components
Abstract
When determining an appropriate level of IT investments (e.g., software components), managers have to take into consideration given business processes and strategic objectives as well as a variety of potential technologies while ensuring the cost-efficient usage of limited resources. As a missing alignment and/or poor IT investment decisions may entail corporate failure, they experience a growing pressure to prove the value of IT investments by defining an optimal IT portfolio, but often lack proper decision support methods and tools. This paper evaluates the performance of two popular methods by means of a case study and compares them to a new one, namely the Atana approach, that allows to (semi)automate software investment decisions. The comparison reveals that the latter better supports decision makers in making investments that more precisely target the company's business needs by allowing decision makers to interactively determine and continually optimize IT investments according to the corporate business processes and multiple (strategic) objectives.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/APSCC.2008.138
APSCC
Keywords
Field
DocType
DP industry,decision making,decision support systems,investment,Atana approach,IT investments,business processes,cost-efficient limited resource usage,decision makers,decision support methods,multicriteria selection,optimal IT portfolio,poor IT investment decisions,software components,software investment decisions,strategic objectives,COTS,Case Study,Decision Support
Business process,Computer science,Decision support system,Business decision mapping,Portfolio,Software,It investment,Component-based software engineering,Investment decisions,Management science,Process management,Distributed computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
12
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thomas Neubauer1504.22
Jan Pichler200.34
Christian Stummer356739.96