Georg Herzwurm - Böcker

This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Software Business, ICSOB 2025, which took place in Stuttgart, Germany, during November 24-26, 2025. The special theme of ICSOB 2025 was Software Business in Digital Societies.The 18 full papers and 11 short papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Data Economy: Data Practices, Spaces, and Architectures; Security, Trust, and Ethical Practices in Software Business; AI Adoption and Governance in Software Organizations; Sustainable and Responsible Software and Reporting; GenAI for Software Engineering and Education; Digital Strategy, Enterprise Architecture, and Value Networks; Sartups, SaaS, and Innovation Ecosystems; and Human-Centered and Socially Responsible Software Business.

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB) held in Potsdam, Germany, in June 2013. The theme of the event was "From Physical Products to Software Services and Solutions."The 15 full papers, seven short papers, and six doctoral symposium papers accepted for ICSOB were selected from 44 submissions and are organized in sections on: software business models and business process modeling; IT markets and software industry; IT within organizations; software product management; cloud computing; entrepreneurship and startup companies; software platforms and software ecosystems; and doctoral symposium.

Die Autoren untersuchen in diesem Beitrag die Wertschöpfungsnetzwerke deutscher Cloud-Anbieter anhand einer Clusteranalyse. Auf Basis der Ergebnisse und vorgestellten Fallbeispiele sind Cloud-Anbieter in der Lage, sich einem der Cluster zuzuordnen, ihr eigenes Wertschöpfungsnetzwerk zu analysieren sowie Optionen zur Neukonfiguration der Wertschöpfungsarchitektur zu identifizieren.Cloud Computing hat nicht nur das Potenzial, IT-Nutzung signifikant umzugestalten, sondern auch IT-Angebote erheblich zu innovieren. Aufgrund des starken Marktwachstums werden etablierte IT-Anbieter gezwungen, ihre Geschäftsmodelle grundlegend zu überdenken. Die Abkehr von herkömmlichen Geschäftsmodellen erzwingt eine Neupositionierung von Aktivitäten innerhalb des Wertschöpfungsnetzwerks. Insbesondere durch die Vernetzung der Cloud-Services eröffnen sich neue Optionen für IT-Unternehmen.