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Determined by means of the “Framework for automated Data Collection in Online Marketplaces” (FaDOM) as of beginning of March 2011.
Evans et al. (2006, p. vii) describe a software platform as “a software program that makes services available to other software programs through Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).”
The data are collected weekly by FaDOM since 2010. For every marketplace only Software as a Service products are considered (e.g., the category “Online Application”) for reasons of comparability. The data for Pinpoint refer to the US version. The gap at AppExchange results from a deficient data collection on 2010-11-15 which was not included in the evaluation.
The mapping of dependent vendors was conducted by name of the vendor. The three vendors “Force.com Labs” (246 niche solutions), “salesforce.com” (10 niche solutions) and “Salesforce.com Foundation” (5 niche solutions) could be identified as dependent niche vendors.
The bigger, the more niche solutions; the size of the biggest, checked circle – Force.com Labs – was reduced due to the large number of niche solutions. Note that the positions of the circles in the figure have no meaning.
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Burkard, C., Widjaja, T. & Buxmann, P. Software Ecosystems. Bus Inf Syst Eng 4, 41–44 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-011-0199-8
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