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

Article history: Received 10 May 2018 Received in revised form 1 August 2018 Accepted 26 August 2018 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.

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