Factors Influencing an Organisation's Intention to Adopt Cloud Computing in Saudi Arabia

Abstract

Abstract-Cloud computing is paradigm that has emerged to deliver IT services to consumers as a utility service over the Internet. In developing countries, particularly Saudi Arabia, cloud computing is still not widely adopted. As a result, this study seeks to investigate the most influential factors that can encourage an organisation to use the cloud or which might impede them from moving to it. This research proposes an integrated model that incorporates aspects of the TechnologyOrganisation-Environment (TOE) framework and integrates the critical factors from existing theories along with other factors to examine the impact of this variable on the adoption decision of enterprises. Future work will be focused on confirming the proposed model.

Understanding the determinants of Cloud Computing adoption in Saudi healthcare organisations

“…The literature demonstrates that limited academic research has addressed Cloud Computing phenomenon in Saudi Arabia [11,12], and, in particular, none within the Saudi healthcare context. Therefore, a questionnaire was developed to examine factors identified from the literature review (see Appendix for more details).…”

“…Their study has some limitations such as: focusing mainly on higher education organisations and the researchers do not including business dimension which is important dimension in the adoption of Cloud Computing. Studying the adoption of Cloud Computing in Saudi Arabia in general (and in healthcare sector in particular) needs more investigative efforts [11,12].…”

“…Cloud Computing in Saudi Arabia has not received much attention [12] [11] investigated influential factors on the adoption decision of Cloud Computing in general. They indicated that many factors such as: trust, relative advantage, technology readiness will influence the use of Cloud Computing technology.…”

“…Very little academic research has addressed the Cloud Computing phenomenon in Saudi Arabia [11,12], and, in particular, none within the Saudi healthcare context. The aim of this research is to explore holistically the factors affecting Cloud Computing adoption in Saudi healthcare organisations.…”

Data Governance Taxonomy: Cloud versus Non-Cloud

“…The technical context represents the issues related to data which will affect the decision of cloud computing adoption and data governance implementation for cloud computing services [106]. Therefore, a lack of technology is considered to be a barrier to successful data governance.…”