Supporting Collaborative Tailoring
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چکیده
With markets globalizing and customers’ demands specializing organizations worldwide need to change. To reach the necessary flexibility of information technology one approach is tailorability, i. e. users are enabled to adjust software to their needs. Some examples for tailorability are given, and its potential benefits and shortcomings are discussed. Software development plays an important role for establishing tailorability, and object oriented methods can be helpful in this context.
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