Authors:
Antero Juntunen
1
;
Vesa Suikkola
1
;
Yrjo Raivio
2
and
Sakari Luukkainen
3
Affiliations:
1
Aalto University School of Science, Finland
;
2
Aalto University and School of Science, Finland
;
3
Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Keyword(s):
Mobile cloud computing, Open telco, Business model, Application, STOF.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Cloud Computing
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Mobility
;
Platforms and Applications
;
Service Innovation
;
Services Science
Abstract:
Cloud computing is emerging in several ICT areas, including the mobile services industry. This development is known as mobile cloud computing (MCC). MCC may save mobile energy consumption and be utilized to overcome the fragmentation challenges of application developers, who must take into account various mobile operating systems. This paper introduces a novel mobile-device-independent development approach. Mobile applications will be placed into a cloud and will utilize open application programming interfaces from the telecom infrastructure. This approach, called Open Telco, enables application deployment that is fully based on cloud-computing principles. In this study, we present a business model analysis of an application case called Event Experience, using the Service, Technology, Organization, and Finance (STOF) framework.