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Digital ecosystems in the construction industry—current state and future trends
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A digital ecosystem is a complex intermeshing of an interdependent group of organizations, people, products, and things that work on a shared digital platform for a mutually beneficial purpose and value creation (Tiwana, Konsynski, and Bush, 2010; Gartner, 2017). Digital ecosystems have been popularized by the success of software ecosystems such as Firefox browser, Apple iOS (Tiwana, Konsynski, and Bush, 2010), and by high-tech businesses like Google, Intel, Cisco (Gawer and Cusumano, 2014), and many similar initiatives.
Virtual earth cloud: a multi-cloud framework for enabling geosciences digital ecosystems
Published in International Journal of Digital Earth, 2023
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The diagram shows a set of enterprise systems – large complex computing systems which handle large volumes of data and enable organizations to integrate and coordinate their business processes (IGI Global 2022); these are the actual digital ecosystem components. Each enterprise system can share resources (data resources, analytics resources, and computational resources – see section Geosciences Digital Ecosystem Resources) utilizing Web APIs (see next subsection) to interact with the other components of the distributed environment, which is implemented by the ecosystem. The emerging (virtual) platform of the digital ecosystem connects to the enterprise systems to exploit their resources; this is where new components and functionalities are implemented to provide digital ecosystem added-value services. Finally, Figure 1 shows the metasystem – i.e. the governance and cybernetic framework; this is included here for completeness but is out of the scope of this work.
Preconditions and benefits of digital twin-based business ecosystems in manufacturing
Published in International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 2023
Kirsi Kokkonen, Lea Hannola, Tuija Rantala, Juhani Ukko, Minna Saunila, Tero Rantala
A business ecosystem is presented as an economically viable community of loosely connected organizations and individuals that produce valuable products and services (Moore 1993). A digital ecosystem, in turn, is presented as a digital environment consisting of digital entities, such as software, hardware, and processes, where the digital ecosystem functions as a distributed technology infrastructure to create, disseminate, and connect digital services over the Internet (Nachira, Dini, and Nicolai 2007; Senyo, Liu, and Effah 2019). To manage in a competitive market, business ecosystems cannot ignore the potential of digital technologies. Therefore, the need for a DBE is recognized among researchers and practitioners (Senyo, Liu, and Effah 2019). A DBE can be considered an extension of a business ecosystem (Moore 1993), where more importance is placed on the significance of technology (Senyo, Liu, and Effah 2019). A business ecosystem and a digital ecosystem are communities that function beyond traditional industry borders, and thus, Senyo, Liu, and Effah’s (2019) definition of DBE is used in this paper. They defined DBE ‘as a socio-technical environment of individuals, organizations and digital technologies with collaborative and competitive relationships to co-create value through shared digital platforms’.