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Organizations have established relationships to create software ecosystems (SECO). Suppliers face challenges when provisioning and maintaining products and technologies in a competitive market, while software-consuming organizations face challenges when performing IT architecture activities, i.e., to choose, adopt and maintain software products and technologies in such a dynamic marketplace. However, the lack of structured knowledge hinders SECO management and monitoring in this scenario. In this paper, SECOGov approach is presented to support IT architects in activities to assist a software-consuming organization to: monitor the market; map relationships with suppliers, software products, and technologies; manage software licenses; and visualize strategic information on IT architecture evolution to adjust production. A tool was developed and a study with 16 IT architects in a large organization of the oil & gas sector was conducted to evaluate its feasibility, as well as utility and ease of use. It was observed that SECOGov is feasible to support IT architecture activities, more specifically regarding monitoring technology adoption.
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This study was financed in part by CNPq and the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001.
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Albert, B.E., Werner, C.M.L., Pereira dos Santos, R. (2021). SECOGov: A Software Ecosystem Governance Approach to Support IT Architecture Activities. In: Klotins, E., Wnuk, K. (eds) Software Business. ICSOB 2020. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 407. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67292-8_16
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