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 Volume 5, Issue 11 (November 2018), Pages: 16-23

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: Classification of business models with focusing on characterizing “as a service” offers

 Author(s): Evan Asfoura *, Mohammad Samir Abdel-Haq, Houcine Chatti, Taoufik Radouche

 Affiliation(s):

 Department of Management Information Systems, College of Business Administration, Dar Al Uloom University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2018.11.002

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 Abstract:

In the last few years, business on the Internet become more and more significance. On the other hand new development of Internet-based technologies like cloud computing “as a service” is changed rapidly. The business models have to be continually adapted and to be changed to meet the value exchange requirements related to these newest technologies. Therefore, this paper aims to provide significant classifying of the business models which leading enterprises in the market which can be offered directly or indirectly, with different type of offers, such as: (1) Infrastructure as a service (2) Platform as a service (3) Software as a service for characterizing the maturity  of “as a services” business model. 

 © 2018 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: As a service, Business model, Characteristics, Value exchanging

 Article History: Received 10 May 2018, Received in revised form 1 August 2018, Accepted 26 August 2018

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2018.11.002

 Citation:

 Asfoura E, Abdel-Haq MS, and Chatti et al. (2018). Classification of business models with focusing on characterizing “as a service” offers. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 5(11): 16-23

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 http://www.science-gate.com/IJAAS/2018/V5I11/Asfoura.html

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