Risks in Enterprise Cloud Computing: The Perspective of it Experts

Dutta, Amab; Guo, Pengcheng; Choudhary, Anshul

doi:10.1080/08874417.2013.11645649

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“…In fact, the E-government cloud solution was initiated by the top management. Top management that recognizes the advantages of E-government cloud will likely allocate the necessary resources for its adoption and influence the organization's members to implement the change (Dutta et al, 2013). In the interview, we got that top managers although were lack of understanding of the cloud computing, usually made decision of adoption of cloud with the pressure of superiors.…”

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Exploring the Determinants Affecting E-Government Cloud Adoption in China

Ji¹,

Liang²

2016

IJBM

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Cloud computing is the popular tendency in information application and services, and E-Government cloud is no exception. This study uses a case study to explore the determinants of E-Government cloud adoption in China which is influenced by multiple factors. In this study, a combinational model based on the TOE and DOI is applied to gain insights concerning all contextual influences on the adoption of E-Government cloud in China. The results show that the positive and negative influences from cloud technology characteristics, organizational and environmental context, which can reflect the adoption of E-government cloud. These findings not only contribute to academic research, but also expand the understanding of E-government cloud applications.

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Exploring the Determinants Affecting E-Government Cloud Adoption in China

Ji¹,

Liang²

2016

IJBM

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“…Cloud computing adoption decisions are challenging due to various concerns such as cost, confidentiality and control (Khajeh-Hosseini et al 2012). Organisations that adopt, or migrate to, cloud computing services often do not understand the resulting risks (Dutta et al 2013). Hence, decisions to migrate existing enterprise systems to SaaS solutions can be complicated as evaluating the benefits, risks and costs of using cloud computing is not straightforward (Khajeh-Hosseini et al 2011).…”

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“…European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) and Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) have found that lock-in risks and insufficient due diligence were among the top threats in cloud computing (Dutta et al 2013;Baldwin et al 2013). Cloud computing adoption decisions are challenging due to various concerns such as cost, confidentiality and control (Khajeh-Hosseini et al 2012).…”

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A Holistic Decision Framework to Avoid Vendor Lock-in for Cloud SaaS Migration

Opara-Martins¹,

Sahandi²,

Tian³

2017

CIS

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Cloud computing offers an innovative business model to enterprise for IT services consumption and delivery. Software as a Service (SaaS) is one of the cloud offerings that attract organisations as a potential solution in reducing their IT cost. However, the vast diversity among the available cloud SaaS services makes it difficult for customers to decide whose vendor services to use or even to determine a valid basis for their selections. Moreover, this variety of cloud SaaS services has led to proprietary architectures and technologies being used by cloud vendors, increasing the risk of vendor lock-in for customers. Therefore, when enterprises interact with SaaS providers within the purview of the current cloud marketplace, they often encounter significant lock-in challenges to migrating and interconnecting cloud. Hence, the complexity and variety of cloud SaaS service offerings makes it imperative for businesses to use a clear and well understood decision process to procure, migrate and/or discontinue cloud services. To date, the expertise and technological solutions to simplify such transition and facilitate good decision making to avoid lock-in risks in the cloud are limited. Besides, little investigation has been carried out to provide a comprehensive decision framework to support enterprises on how to avoid lock-in risks when selecting and implementing cloud-based SaaS solutions within existing environments. Such decision framework is important to reduce complexity and variations in implementation patterns on the cloud provider side, while at the same time minimising potential switching cost for enterprises by resolving integration issues with existing IT infrastructures. This paper proposes a holistic 6-step decision framework that enables an enterprise to assess its current IT landscape for potential SaaS replacement, and provides effective strategies to mitigate vendor lock-in risks in cloud (SaaS) migration. The framework follows research findings and addresses the core requirements for choosing vendor-neutral interoperable and portable cloud services without the fear of vendor lock-in, and architectural decisions for secure SaaS migration. Therefore, the results of this research can help IT managers have a safe and effective migration to cloud computing SaaS environment.

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“…Due to these problems, a radical change is required within ERP framework to enhance ERP infrastructural and functionality. The emergence of cloud computing is considered to be the best suited option to overcome ERP systems discrepancies [1,2,3,4].Cloud computing is a technique for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. Cloud computing is an alternative of deploying applications and systems on-premises.…”

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Cloud Computing: An Operational Framework in the Implementation of ERP

Gupta¹,

Bhatia²

2017

IJARCSSE

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Abstract-The present scenario for ERP is the shift from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud environment through utilization of cloud computing technologies. The characteristics of cloud computing offers many promises to cloud-based ERP systems. Cloud based ERP is an alternative to on-premises ERP systems. To implement ERP system with the help of cloud based technology faces many challenges. ERP system implementation is very painful, complex and time consuming and generate the necessity of a massive change in ERP framework to enhance ERP systems infrastructure and functionality. Cloud Computing (CC) platform possess the ability to overcome ERP systems discrepancies with cost-effective, customized and highly available computing resources. Cloud computing is a set of services that provide infrastructure resources using internet media and data storage on a third party server. The research presented in this paper, proposes a framework which is the sandwich of Diffusion of Innovation (DOI) theory and Technological-Organizational-Environmental (TOE) framework. The various components of DOI and TOE are integrated in such a manner that gives the flavour of ERP. All the constituents of DOI and TOE are spindled with the concept of Cloud computing. The present framework is a generic framework which is in favour of SMEs. Keywords-Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP); Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs); Cloud Computing (CC); Diffusion of Innovation (DOI); Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE). I. INTRODUCTIONEnterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are the ultimate aspiration of the business community as they provide collaboration with partners, external applications and information systems. Traditionally, the development of ERP systems involves maintaining a set of hardware and network configurations, typically using a database as an information repository. ERP systems are becoming an integral component of organizational infrastructure, however, ERP solutions have many issues and challenges such as massive upgrading cost, integration among different components, fair utilization of resources, visibility, management change, financial performance tracking, bidding and quoting etc. Due to these problems, a radical change is required within ERP framework to enhance ERP infrastructural and functionality. The emergence of cloud computing is considered to be the best suited option to overcome ERP systems discrepancies [1,2,3,4].Cloud computing is a technique for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. Cloud computing is an alternative of deploying applications and systems on-premises. In Cloud technology, organization can access the available services on-demand. They can access the computing resources at anytime and anywhere using Internet services. Cloud computing (also called utility computing) refers to an IT service model and platform that provides on-dem...

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Risks in Enterprise Cloud Computing: The Perspective of it Experts

Cited by 110 publications

References 27 publications

Exploring the Determinants Affecting E-Government Cloud Adoption in China

Exploring the Determinants Affecting E-Government Cloud Adoption in China

A Holistic Decision Framework to Avoid Vendor Lock-in for Cloud SaaS Migration

Cloud Computing: An Operational Framework in the Implementation of ERP

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