Evaluating the adoption potential of design science efforts: The case of APSARA Sandeep Purao College of Information Sciences and Technology The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802 Email: Sandeep-purao@psu.edu Veda C. Storey J. Mack Robinson College of Business Georgia State University P.O. Box 4015, Atlanta, GA 30302 Email: vstorey@gsu.edu RESEARCH NOTE Forthcoming in Decision Support Systems Please contact the first author for citation information Acknowledgements The authors wish to thank the editor and reviewers for their comments on this paper. They also thank Arun Rai for his comments on earlier drafts, Detmar Straub for his counsel on research design, and Cecil Chua for his help in the data analysis. This research was supported by Georgia State University.