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Authors: Dli M. I., Salov N. Published in № 1(73) 27 february 2018 year
Rubric: Performance management

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Economical information system lifecycle management based on decentralized application theory

Effective business processes become a competitive edge of the organization, and enable it to timely respond to changes in external environment. Research and development (innovation) are the key business process providing the basic value of organization products/services, along information system lifecycle management is one of components of this business process. The goal of this work is software developing and maintenance projects efficiency improving by transaction costs reducing. This article suggests economical information system lifecycle management model based on decentralized application theory, that tries to reduce the cost of information search by securely storing the lifecycle process output and project documentation versions; to reduce the cost of coordination by automating the lifecycle process output verification; to reduce the cost of contracting by using auto-implementing smart contracts and eliminating the dependence on the necessity of establishing «trust» relations between parties to the lifecycle. The practical use of the results is expected in developing information system lifecycle management tools.

Key words

economical information system life cycle, IT-outsource, business process automation, smart contract, decentralized application, decentralized data storage

The author:

Dli M. I.

Degree:

Dr. Sci. (Eng.), Professor, Information Technologies in Economics and Management Department, Branch of the National Research University “MPEI” in Smolensk, Smolensk; Leading Researcher, Synergy University