Open Source Adoption for Digital Transformation and Data Management During the COVID-19 Crisis
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.
Authors
- Deepak Kumar Panda (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8635-8630)
- Razaz Waheeb Attar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9819-7945)
- Prabin Kumar Panigrahi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2185-9231)
- Brij B. Gupta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4929-4698)
Institutions
- Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University (SA)
- Symbiosis International University (IN)
- Indian Institute of Management Indore (IN)
- University of Business and Technology (SA)
- University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (IN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Database Management
- Published
- 2024-11-15
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.4018/jdm.360708
- Primary Topic
- Big Data and Business Intelligence
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00