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Understanding the Phenomenon of Cloud Computing Adoption within Organizations
2016
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The Start of a Journey to the Cloud in the Developing World: A Case Study of Egypt
2015
Cloud computing (CC) is becoming a global market trend that all businesses, sooner or later, will go for. Moving to the cloud is a long journey for developing countries that became aware of its importance to their economic development. Egypt started this journey with collective efforts from all stakeholders (i.e., Government institutes, national and international cloud providers, private businesses, and training institutes) to draw the roadmap for CC adoption in Egypt. CC adoption in Egypt is influenced by some enabling and inhibiting factors. These factors are explored by conducting an exploratory case study. The findings of this study are analyzed by utilizing concepts from the neo-instit…
Cloud Computing Adoption Factors and Processes for Enterprises - A Systematic Literature Review
2014
Cloud computing has received an increasing interest from enterprises since its inception. With its innovative Information Technology (IT) services delivery model, cloud computing could add technical and strategic business values to enterprises. However, it poses highly concerning, internal and external, issues. This paper presents a systematic literature review to explore cloud computing adoption processes in the context of enterprise users and the factors that affect these processes. This is achieved by reviewing 37 articles published about cloud computing adoption. Using the grounded theory approach, articles are classified into eight main categories: internal, external, evaluation, proof…
An Overview of Cloud Computing Adoption Challenges in the Norwegian Context
2014
Cloud computing is dominating European countries' Information and Communication Technology (ICT) agenda. Although the European cloud market is mostly mature, there are still challenges to overcome. Norway is one of the European countries facing such challenges, despite it is a developed country in terms of quality of life and ICT development. This paper identifies the current state of cloud computing adoption challenges in Europe in general and Norway in specific, and the way they are addressed. This is achieved through analyzing research articles, reports published by consulting companies and official bodies, official online news articles, and documents published by official authorities. T…
Understanding cloud computing adoption issues: A Delphi study approach
2016
An exploratory ranking-type Delphi study and follow-up interviews were conducted.Important cloud computing adoption issues are identified, categorized and ranked.Three subpanels top-ranked issues from security, strategy and legal categories.A framework of inhibitors and drivers for cloud computing adoption is proposed.Recommendations to assist decision-makers in cloud computing adoption are proposed. This research paper reports on a Delphi study focusing on the most important issues enterprises are confronted with when making cloud computing (CC) adoption decisions. We had 34 experts from different domain backgrounds participated in a Delphi panel. The panelists were IT and CC specialists r…
A Literature Review on Cloud Computing Adoption Issues in Enterprises
2014
Part 3: Creating Value through Applications; International audience; Cloud computing has received increasing interest from enterprises since its inception. With its innovative information technology (IT) services delivery model, cloud computing could add technical and strategic business value to enterprises. However, cloud computing poses highly concerning internal (e.g., Top management and experience) and external issues (e.g., regulations and standards). This paper presents a systematic literature review to explore the current key issues related to cloud computing adoption. This is achieved by reviewing 51 articles published about cloud computing adoption. Using the grounded theory approa…