Towards an OSS Adoption Business Impact Assessment

Lucía Méndez Tapia (1, 2) , Lidia López (1) , Claudia P. Ayala (1) , María Carmela Annosi (3)

1 UPC - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya = Université polytechnique de Catalogne [Barcelona]
2 UDA - Universidad del Azuay
3 Ericsson Italy [Roma]

Nowadays, the adoption of Open Source Software (OSS) by organizations is becoming a strategic need in a wide variety of application areas. Organizations adopt OSS in very diverse ways. The way in which they adopt OSS affects and shapes their businesses. Therefore, knowing the impact of different OSS adoption strategies in the context of an organization may help improving the processes undertaken inside this organization and ultimately pave the road to strategic moves. However, there is a lack of support for assessing the impact of the OSS adoption over the business of the adopter organizations. Based on the goal-oriented characterization of some OSS adoption strategies, in this paper, we propose a preliminary approach to assess the business impact of the OSS adoption strategies over the adopter organizations. The proposal is based on the Business Model Canvas and graph theory notions to support the elicitation and assessment of the impact of each goal over the adopter organization. We illustrate the application of the approach in the context of a telecommunications company.

Mots clés: Open Source Software; Goal-oriented; OSS adoption strategies; Business model canvas

Domaines: Informatique [cs]; Sciences de l'information et de la communication

Lucía Méndez Tapia, Lidia López, Claudia P. Ayala, María Carmela Annosi. Towards an OSS Adoption Business Impact Assessment. 8th Practice of Enterprise Modelling (P0EM), Nov 2015, Valencia, Spain. pp.289-305, ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-25897-3_19⟩. ⟨hal-01442290⟩