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Call for Papers (DL Jan 21, 2012) 3rd Int. Conference on Software Business, ICSOB June 18-20. 2012, MIT Cambridge, Massachusetts. Theme: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Software Business.

New Open Access Journal: Communications of Cloud Software visit http://www.cloudsw.org/

Call for Papers (DL Jan 23, 2012) 6th Int. Workshop on Software Product Management (IWSPM 2012), March 19. 2012, Essen, Germany.

Call for Papers (DL Mar 30, 2012), for The SEAA 2012 Cloud Software track.

Call for Applications - Professors in Information Systems - received 52 applications by September 15. 12 primary candidates chosen and the selection in process.

Software Industry Research Team (SIRT) new Web pages of SIRT have been published on the CS & IS Department Research pages.



Best Paper Award was granted for the paper "How to Sell SaaS: A Model for Main Factors of Marketing and Selling Software-as-a-Service," by Pasi Tyrväinen and Joona Selin at the 2nd Int. Conference on Software Business in Brüssels, Belgium. Selling SaaS pre-release. ICSOB2011 proceedings at Springer.

New Articles:  Ojala, A. and Tyrväinen, P., ”Development of a cloud business model: A case study on cloud gaming,” IEEE Software, July/August 2011. 27-32.
Mazhelis, O. and Tyrväinen, P., "Economic Aspects of Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure: User Organization Perspective," to appear in Information Systems Frontiers. Hybrid Cloud in Spriger Link, Hybrid Cloud preprint

First Taste of Cloud Software Business - Report Published - now available in Cloud Software Program Results page. (Direct link to the containing page and the report First Taste of Cloud Software Business).

Cloud Software Program web pages launched. The 4-year CS Program by TIVIT Oy funded by Tekes brings together 22 leading Finnish firms and 7 research institutes and universities to revise how cloud computing and SaaS technologies will be used in lean organizations to make cloud software business.



Software Business, Proc. of the 1st Int. Conference on Software Business, ICSOB 2010, is now available at Springer in series Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing: LNBIP 51.



Vertical Software Industry Evolution - Analysis of Telecom Operator Software, Book available September 26th from Springer. Outline-PDF, Editorial View. On-line version (with outline preview).

INFORTE program launched. During the next couple of years the INFORTE program will organize tens of round table events, seminars and workshops with globally recognized IT characters lecturing to industry experts and researchers.

Recent research projects:

OssoBuco - This project analyzes how  Software as a Service (SaaS) model mitigates the challenges and risks related to open-source software in the telecommunications industry.

DCM - Digital content marketing project analyzes user acceptance of  various peer-to-peer marketing models of digital content products.

Software Market Analysis, Case Telecom Operator Products. A research project developing a method for analyzing the development of a vertical software market. The target vertical for 1.1.2007 - 31.12.2008 is the software used by telecom operators. SmarTop.

Call for papers for International Journal of Business Information Systems IJBIS.

Econ@Tel, A Telecommunications Economics COST Nework.

New PhD Dissertation on Internationalization of Software Firms. Available also in Granum.

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