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Open Source Adoption for Digital Transformation and Data Management During the COVID-19 Crisis

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: With COVID-19-led business disruption and businesses expediting their move towards digital transformation, Industry experts observed a phenomenon of increased adoption of Open Source Software and database management systems to digitalize the business while keeping costs low. This research has studied this phenomenon using a three-step approach: using the collective intelligence of Twitter without the context of COVID-19, Twitter data with the context of COVID-19, and empirical validation with actual monthly downloads data of open source projects from SourceForge in Pre-COVID and COVID-19 time periods. The research finds that although the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a digital transformation and the use of database management systems in many organizations, but there is no statistically significant increased use that can be attributed to a crisis response due to the pandemic.

Source: Journal of Database Management

DOI: 10.4018/jdm.360708

Authors: Deepak Kumar Panda, Prabin Kumar Panigrahi, Razaz Waheeb Attar, Brij B. Gupta

Institutions: Indian Institute of Management Indore, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Asia University, Symbiosis International University, VIZJA University, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies

Language: English

Topic: Open Source Software Innovations

Subfield: Computer Science Applications

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W4404420561

FWCI: 1.184

Cites: 82

Cited by: 3

Related to: 10