Making the Cloud Work for Software Producers: Linking Architecture, Operating Cost and Revenue

Pierangelo Rosati, Frank Fowley, Claus Pahl, Davide Taibi, Theo Lynn

2018

Abstract

Cloud migration is concerned with moving an on-premise software system into the cloud. In this paper we focus on software producers adopting the cloud to provide their solutions to enterprise customers. Their challenge is to migrate a software product, developed in-house and traditionally delivered on-premise, to an Infrastructure-as-a-Service or Platform-as-a-Service solution, while also mapping an existing traditional licensing model on to a cloud monetization model. The analysis of relevant cost types and factors of cloud computing generate relevant information for the software producers when deciding to adopt cloud computing, and defining software pricing. We present an integrated framework for informing cloud monetization based on operational cost factors for migrating to the cloud and test it in a real-life case study. Differences between basic virtualization of the software product and using fully cloud-native platform services for re-architecting the product in question are discussed.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Rosati P., Fowley F., Pahl C., Taibi D. and Lynn T. (2018). Making the Cloud Work for Software Producers: Linking Architecture, Operating Cost and Revenue.In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-758-295-0, pages 364-375. DOI: 10.5220/0006679303640375

in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer18,
author={Pierangelo Rosati and Frank Fowley and Claus Pahl and Davide Taibi and Theo Lynn},
title={Making the Cloud Work for Software Producers: Linking Architecture, Operating Cost and Revenue},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2018},
pages={364-375},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006679303640375},
isbn={978-989-758-295-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - Making the Cloud Work for Software Producers: Linking Architecture, Operating Cost and Revenue
SN - 978-989-758-295-0
AU - Rosati P.
AU - Fowley F.
AU - Pahl C.
AU - Taibi D.
AU - Lynn T.
PY - 2018
SP - 364
EP - 375
DO - 10.5220/0006679303640375