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Table 4. Contd.

Te17 Te18 Te19

Software as a service (eliminating the need to install and run the application on the own computer) Virtual research center for product development Can be integrated/compatible with the other tools and systems

3.531

1.07

0.666

0.943

3.455

1.078

0.681

0.943

3.688

1.139

0.613

0.944

*Frequency values - 1: Not important; 2: Slightly important; 3: Important; 4: Quite important; 5: Extremely important.

Table 5. KMO and Bartlett’s Test results.

Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy. Approx. Chi-Square Bartlett's Test of Sphericity

df

0. 878 679.744 28

Sig.

0.000

Table 6. Factor analysis results on 13 process items.

Component

Initial eigenvalues

Rotation sums of squared loadings

Total

% of Variance

Cumulative %

Total

% of Variance

Cumulative %

1

7.158

55.062

55.062

4.255

32.733

32.733

2

1.126

8.662

63.724

4.029

30.991

63.724

3

0.951

7.314

71.039

4

0.737

5.670

76.708

5

0.544

4.185

80.893

6

0.461

3.544

84.437

7

0.445

3.422

87.859

8

0.415

3.192

91.051

9

0.333

2.558

93.609

10

0.304

2.338

95.947

11

0.222

1.707

97.654

12

0.173

1.331

98.985

13

0.132

1.015

100.000

Extraction method: Principal Component Analysis.

after Exploratory Factor Analysis, Eigenvalue, and percentage of variance, are shown in Tables 6, 7, 8 and 9, respectively The 13 process items and 15 technology items are divided into two different groups, which have an Eigenvalue greater than one. The confirmed factors are then identified based on conciseness, without losing clarity of meaning. Upon extraction of the factors, the items with higher loadings are considered more important and have greater

influence on the name of selected reduced factors. The names and contents of the two derived factors on process items are: 1. Factor FPr1: This consists of Items Pr8 through Pr13, which are “Interact with customers for gathering new product features”, “Provide quantitative answer”, “Generate an easy and interpretable answer”, “Ease of generating reports”, “Ease of data entry” and “Ability to


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