Why Cloud? - A Review Of Cloud Adoption Determinants In Organizations

Why Cloud? - A Review Of Cloud Adoption Determinants In Organizations Aleksandre Asatiani, Aalto University School of Business, Helsinki, Finland.ECIS 2015, Münster, Germany.

Motivation

- Inconclusive results across studies.

- Lack of high-ranking publications on cloud adoption.

- No thorough reviews summarizing empirical findings.

Methods

Literature search

- 7 databases: AISel; EBSCOHost; Google Scholar; Proquest; ScienceDirect; Scopus; Web of Science;

- 6 search terms: “Cloud adoption“; “Cloud computing adoption“; “SaaS adoption“; “IaaS adoption“; “PaaS adoption”; “XaaS adoption“;

- 5 criteria: Published peer-reviewed articles; original empirical studies; adoption in organizations; clearly identified adoption factors;

Search results

- 76 articles after manual review of titles and abstracts.

- 31 articles for the first step of the review.

- 18 articles for the second step of the review.

Step 1

Goal: Identify cloud adoption factors used in previous studies.

Approach: Concept matrices – identify, code, group.

Outcome: 5 adoption categories, 43 adoption factors.

Step 2

Goal: Explore empirical evidence behind adoption factors and adoption decision.

Approach: Systematic review (Jeyaraj et al. 2006).

Outcome: Set of cloud adoption determinants.

Findings

Adoption factors categories

Drivers 11 items

1. Cost advantage2. Relative advantage 3. Accessibility4. Strategic flexibility &

adaptability5. Implementation times

Barriers 14 items

1. Security & privacy2. Cost unpredictability3. Complexity4. Lack of standards in SLAs5. Technological limitations

Organization

7 items

1. Compatibility2. Management support3. Organization size4. Transaction costs5. Previous experience with

cloud

Cloud Providers 5 items

1. Provider reputation2. Provider competences3. Customer support4. Economics of scale5. Location of data

External factors 6 items

1. Legal issues2. Competitive pressure3. Social influence/peer

pressure4. Shared best practices5. Partner pressure

Determinants of adoption

Future research

- Further exploration of underrepresented categories.

- Cloud impact of business processes.

- Studies in broader context.

- Impact of cloud providers.

Questions and comments

Key findings:- Cloud adoption

categories- Set of empirically

supported adoption determinants

- Need for further studies:

- underrepresented categories- broader context- cloud providers

Asatiani, A. (2015). Why Cloud? – A Review of Cloud Adoption Determinants in Organizations. 23rd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Münster, Germany, 2015.

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