Social:Asset reuse
The reuse of Intellectual Property (IP) assets (also known as Software Assets[1]) is a strategy that many, in particular IT, companies are pursuing.[2][3]
The strategy for reusing non-IT related assets is called Asset recovery. However, the term recovery is not being applied to Intellectual Property (IP) assets.[4][5]
These IP assets (or software assets) can be defined as (see Forrester [6]): Internally developed or acquired software artifacts that IT services vendors use to automate a particular business process or aspect of product development for a range of clients. Software assets provide 30% to 90% of the solution that the client is looking for and are reused across multiple engagements.
Benefits for the client
Amongst other benefits, the key advantages of reusing assets are:
- Increase delivery efficiency
- Innovate from a higher level
- Use best practices
- Reduce risk
- Offer wider array of flexible solutions.
Requirements
In order to implement Asset Reuse within a major company, it takes at least:
- a system where to store and retrieve relevant assets
- a management system to handle the asset management
- a communication set-up to promote the reuse of piled up assets.
Implications
Till now a number of companies have tried to implement asset reuse. However, common implications are:
- the use of more than one asset repository
- the operation model: set-up, funding, and maintenance of the required asset management system including success tracking over a long time
- permanent cross-company communication of the asset management system strategy and its latest elements
References
- ↑ "Software Asset Inventory, H2 2012". forrester.com. http://www.forrester.com/The+Move+To+An+AssetBased+Services+Play/fulltext/-/E-RES71081#/Software+Asset+Inventory+H2+2012/fulltext/-/E-RES84061/. Retrieved 2012-10-10.
- ↑ "Reusable Asset Initiative Is IBM's Secret Weapon for Industry Solutions". eWeek.com. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Enterprise-Applications/Reusable-Asset-Initiative-is-IBMs-Secret-Weapon-for-Industry-Solutions-853170/. Retrieved 2010-04-09.
- ↑ "RWeb services and asset reuse". ibm.com. 2006-04-04. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-assetreuse/. Retrieved 2010-04-12.
- ↑ "How Does AnthillPro Help Me Reuse My Software Assets?". www.anthillpro.com. Archived from the original on 10 March 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100310173944/http://www.anthillpro.com/html/solutions/reuse.html. Retrieved 2010-04-12.
- ↑ Boehm, B.; Wolf, S. (1998). "An open architecture for software process asset reuse". Proceedings 10th International Software Process Workshop. computer.org. pp. 2–4. doi:10.1109/ISPW.1996.654354. ISBN 0-8186-7725-2.
- ↑ "Software Asset Inventory, H2 2012". forrester.com. http://www.forrester.com/The+Move+To+An+AssetBased+Services+Play/fulltext/-/E-RES71081#/Software+Asset+Inventory+H2+2012/fulltext/-/E-RES84061/. Retrieved 2012-10-10.
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