“…Previousresearchhighlightedtheimportanceofuserempowerment(UE)forthesuccessfuladoption oftechnology (Filgueiras,Prietch,&Preti,2015;Munjin,2013;Stodder,2015). Deibel(2011)defines empowermentinorganizationastheuser'sabilityandbehaviortoautonomouslyplan,decide,and actasshedeemsbestwithrespecttotheexecutionofwork-relatedtasks.Inlinewiththisdefinition, SSA can be considered a means of user empowerment as it allows for self-sufficiency and selfmanagementofreportsandanalytics (Schlesinger&Rahman,2016).Thebusinessenvironmentcan alsobeempoweredofSSAtechnologyasitenablesinformationsharingandcollaboration,liberates ITbygivingbusinessusersanewwaytoaccesstheinformationtheyneed,andprovidesroomto growataself-determinedpace (Shardaetal.,2015).Whileanempowereduserismoreparticipant andproductive,theempoweredenvironmentismoreagileandefficient (Stodder,2013).…”