Title
A framework for SaaS software packages evaluation and selection with virtual team and BOCR of analytic network process
Abstract
Software packages evaluation and selection is one of the most important activities encountered by software as a service (SaaS) users in the high performance networked computing environment, especially for the small or medium-sized enterprises. In this paper, we propose a framework for SaaS software packages evaluation and selection by combining the virtual team (VT) and the BOCR (benefits, opportunities, costs, and risks) of the analytic network process (ANP). Different from the traditional application of the BOCR model of ANP, the proposed VT-BOCR model attempts to solve the complex ANP model and overloaded pairwise comparisons by decomposing the tasks to four parts, and performed by benefits virtual team (B-VT), opportunities virtual team (O-VT), costs virtual team (C-VT), and risks virtual team (R-VT) separately. The interactive networked media on distributed environments not only makes the proposed framework possible without the limitations of time, space, and human resources, but also can take full advantage of the talent experts who are geographically dispersed. The proposed framework also shows great potentials for aiding practitioners and researchers concerned with the cloud services.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/s11227-013-0995-7
The Journal of Supercomputing
Keywords
Field
DocType
SaaS,Virtual team,BOCR,ANP,Pairwise comparison,Distributed environments
Pairwise comparison,Saas software,Human resources,Computer science,Software as a service,Software,Analytic network process,Virtual team,Distributed computing,Cloud computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
67
1
0920-8542
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.39
20
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daji Ergu137315.27
Yi Peng2130378.20