Although IT outsourcing is nothing new, it remains surprisingly challenging for professionals. This book assists the IT professional in several areas of the outsourcing process: establishing outsourcing relationships, maintaining and managing the relationship, and finally governing outsourcing projects successfully.

This book describes the state-of-the-art of software ecosystems. It constitutes a fundamental step towards an empirically based, nuanced understanding of the implications for management, governance, and control of software ecosystems. This is the first book of its kind dedicated to this emerging field and offers guidelines on how to analyze software ecosystems; methods for managing and growing; methods on transitioning from a closed software organization to an open one; and instruments for dealing with open source, licensing issues, product management and app stores. It is unique in bringing together industry experiences, academic views and tackling challenges such as the definition of fundamental concepts of software ecosystems, describing those forces that influence its development and lifecycles, and the provision of methods for the governance of software ecosystems. This book is an essential starting point for software industry researchers, product managers, and entrepreneurs. Contributors: T. Aaltonen, T.A. Alspaugh, C. Alves, M. Anvaari, H.U. Asuncion, O. Barbosa, S. Biffl, S. Brinkkemper, M.A. Cusumano, E. den Hartigh, D. Dhungana, R.P. dos Santos, A. Finkelstein, M. Goeminne, I. Groher, I. Hammouda, S. Jansen, A. Jimenez Salas, J. Kabbedijk, M. Kauppinen, T. Kilamo, Y.-R. Li, L. Luinenburg, T. Mens, T. Mikkonen, K.M. Popp, W. Scacchi, E. Schludermann, J. Souer, M. Tol, J. van Angeren, G. van Capelleveen, M. Viljainen, W. Visscher, C. Werner

Although IT outsourcing is nothing new, it remains surprisingly challenging for professionals. This book assists the IT professional in several areas of the outsourcing process: establishing outsourcing relationships, maintaining and managing the relationship, and finally governing outsourcing projects successfully.

The advancementof the softwareindustry has hada substantialimpact notonly onproductivityandonGDPgrowthglobally, butalsoonourdailyworkandlife. Software business refers to commercial activity of the software industry, aimed at generating income from delivery of software products and software services. Although software business shares common features with other international knowledge-intensive businesses, it carries many inherent features making it an intriguing and challenging domain for research. Until now, however, software business has received little attention from the academic community. The First International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB 2010) was organized in Jyv] askyl] a during June 21-23, 2010. This inaugural conference brought together a strong Program Committee of 52 members with research disciplines from various ?elds of business management and technology mana- mentaswellasinternational?avorwithmemberscomingfrom17countriesfrom South and North America to Europe, India and Australia. Wereceived35researchpapersubmissions.Thepaperswentthroughadoub- blind review process producing at least three reviews for each accepted paper. The ProgramCommittee accepted 13 submissions to be presented as full papers in the conference, equaling 37% of the submissions. In addition, ten papers were accepted as short papers. The accepted papers represent the wide variety of - searchactivityonsoftwarebusiness.Forthepurposesoftheconferenceprogram, the papers were organized under eight themes: business models, business m- agement, ecosystems, education and research, internationalization, open source software and social media, product management, and software as a service. In addition to the paper sessions, the conference program included three keynote presentations and a Business Innovation Track containing best-practice presentations from the software industry. The conference program also included two workshops, three tutorials and an adjunct meeting of the Cloud Software Consortia."

The research on software ecosystems still is a young and emerging field. We created the European Workshop on Software Ecosystems to bring together the research community from all over Europe and to share, present and discuss their latest research with business experts from the software industry A big thank you to the many people who supported this workshop and the proceedings.

Proceedings of the European Workshop on Software Ecosystems 2012 The research on software ecosystems still is a young and emerging field. We created the European Workshop on Software Ecosystems to: - bring together the research community from all over Europe and - share, present and discuss their latest research with business experts from the software industry A big thank you to the many people who supported this workshop and the proceedings. Researchers and Presenters: - Josef Waltl / Technical University of Munich, Germany What makes a software platform attractive for ecosystem partners? - Karthik Jayaraman / University of Oslo / Norway Managing the Arbitrage of Control and Generativity in Software Ecosystems - M. Schreiner, T. Hess / Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany The Success of Software Companies Internationalization: The Case of Germany - K.-B. Schultis, C. Elsner, Siemens AG, D. Lohmann / FAU University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Architectural guidance and governance in industrial software ecosystems - S. Hyrynsalmi, A. Suominen, T. Makila & A. Jarvi / University of Turku, Finland Analyzing Developers Challenges in Mobile Application Marketplaces - J. Wollersheim, A. Teufl, P. Hoberg, P. Wolf, fortiss GmbH, H. Krcmar, Technical University of Munich, Germany Mechanisms to gather customer feedback - Requirements in the cloud service ecosystem Industry Sponsors: BlackDuck Software, Corum M&A, fluid Operations, InnoWerft, Netfira, Partner-Port, Suse Software, Synomic. WWW.EWSECO.ORG