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Towards High Maturity in SaaS Applications Based on Virtualization: Methods and Case Study

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  • Shijun Liu

    (Shandong University, China)

  • Yong Zhang

    (Shandong University, China)

  • Xiangxu Meng

    (Shandong University, China)

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This paper proposes a high level maturity in SaaS applications based on virtualization technologies, in which the hardware virtualization focuses on providing the flexible on-demand hosting environment, the application virtualization used to meet the scalable application deployment requirements and data virtualization solves data integration and unified data access problems to ensure multi-tenant efficiency. In order to realize the configurability, a method based on metadata and JMX is used to manage the metadata so that changed metadata can be hot deployed immediately during runtime. A case study of a SaaS application for supply business in automobile industry is introduced with the discussion of approaches to higher level maturity model.

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  • Shijun Liu & Yong Zhang & Xiangxu Meng, 2011. "Towards High Maturity in SaaS Applications Based on Virtualization: Methods and Case Study," International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector (IJISSS), IGI Global, vol. 3(4), pages 39-53, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jisss0:v:3:y:2011:i:4:p:39-53
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