Facilitating More Frequent Updates: Towards Evergreen: A Case Study of an Enterprise Software Vendor’s Response to the Emerging DevOps Trend, Drawing on Neo-Institutional Theory
2018 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 20 credits / 30 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
The last couple of years the trend within the software industry has been to releasesmaller software updates more frequent, to overcome challenges and increase flexibility, to alignwith the swiftly changing industry environment. As an effect, we now see companies moving over tocapitalizing on subscriptions and incremental releases instead of charging for upgrades. By utilizingneo-institutional theory and Oliver’s (1991) strategic response theory, an enterprise systemsvendor’s response to the emerging DevOps trend can be determined.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2018. , p. 80
Keywords [en]
Evergreen, Enterprise software vendor, Neo-Institutional Theory, DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Software release management, Release Frequency, ERP, Enterprise Systems Industry, Strategic response framework
National Category
Information Systems, Social aspects
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-155785ISRN: LIU-IEI-FIL-A--18/02955--SEOAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-155785DiVA, id: diva2:1299367
Supervisors
Examiners
2019-04-042019-03-262019-04-04Bibliographically approved