Adoption of software as a service : a fuzzy approach to ranking the determinants

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Barnard, Frans Hendrik
Van der Lingen, Elma

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Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering

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‘Software as a Service’ (SaaS) holds various benefits for organisations; however, SaaS solutions are not enjoying widespread adoption in South Africa. Hence, to improve the competitiveness of South African organisations, this study ranked SaaS adoption factors according to their influence on a SaaS adoption decision. This novel approach from a South African perspective implemented an integrated adoption model with the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (AHP) with linguistic preference relations (LinPreRa). The top five adoption factors were found to be trust, relative advantage, security risk, complexity, and trialability. Implications for researchers, vendors, and end-users are also discussed.
Sagteware as ’n Diens (SanD) hou verskeie voordele vir organisasies in maar geniet egter nie wydverspreide aanvaarding in Suid Afrika nie. Om die mededingendheid van Suid Afrikaanse organisasies te verbeter, het hierdie studie SanD aanvaardingsfaktore gegradeer volgens hul invloed op ’n SanD aanvaardingsbesluit. Hierdie nuwe benadering vanuit ’n Suid Afrikaanse perspektief het ’n geïntegreerde aanvaardingsmodel geïmplementeer met die vae analitiese hierargie proses met taalkundige voorkeurverhoudinge. Die navorsingsresultate dui die top vyf aanvaardingsfaktore aan as vertroue, relatiewe voordeel, veiligheidsrisiko, kompleksiteit en beproefbaarheid. Implikasies vir navorsers, verskaffers en eindgebruikers word ook bespreek.

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Benefits, Organisations, Voordele, Organisasies, Software as a service (SaaS), Sagteware as ’n diens (SanD)

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Barnard, F.H. & Van der Lingen, E. 2022, 'Adoption of software as a service : a fuzzy approach to ranking the determinants', South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 32-46, doi : 10.7166/33-4-2639.