Research of the Software Environment of For-profit Organizations in Hungary

Abstract

Based on the results of a questionnaire survey, the aim of this research is to investigate the extent to which the business activities of the for-profit organizations in Hungary are supported by various software solutions. The significantly different pattern of the 498 responses received and the relatively low correlation between each element of the software environment made necessary the development of a new evaluation system. The new method of analysis procedure can analyse the software environments for-profit organizations in Hungary more sophistically than in previous research, but it is robust for significant differences in the received answers of the questionnaire. Based on previously published theoretical results and methods used in quantitative research, this analytical methodology is based on the methods of exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The research proved that this system of indicators can fulfil the role of an explanatory variable in other models, so the impact of the software-environment of the ICT infrastructure of the for-profit organizations in Hungary on their operators can be measured in an objective way, by using the quantitative tools.