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Noureddine, Moustafa. "Enterprise adoption oriented cloud computing performance optimization." Thesis, University of East London, 2014. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/4026/.
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Cloud computing in the Enterprise has emerged as a new paradigm that brings both business opportunities and software engineering challenges. In Cloud computing, business participants such as service providers, enterprise solutions, and marketplace applications are required to adopt a Cloud architecture engineered for security and performance. One of the major hurdles of formal adoption of Cloud solutions in the enterprise is performance. Enterprise applications (e.g., SAP, SharePoint, Yammer, Lync Server, and Exchange Server) require a mechanism to predict and manage performance expectations in a secure way. This research addresses two areas of performance challenges: Capacity planning to ensure resources are provisioned in a way that meets requirements while minimizing total cost of ownership; and optimization to authentication protocols that enable enterprise applications to authenticate among each other and meet the performance requirements for enterprise servers, including third party marketplace applications. For the first set of optimizations, the theory was formulated using a stochastic process where multiple experiments were monitored and data collected over time. The results were then validated using a real-life enterprise product called Lync Server. The second set of optimizations was achieved by introducing provisioning steps to pre-establish trust among enterprise applications servers, the associated authorisation server, and the clients interested in access to protected resources. In this architecture, trust is provisioned and synchronized as a pre-requisite step 3 to authentication among all communicating entities in the authentication protocol and referral tokens are used to establish trust federation for marketplace applications across organizations. Various case studies and validation on commercially available products were used throughout the research to illustrate the concepts. Such performance optimizations have proved to help enterprise organizations meet their scalability requirements. Some of the work produced has been adopted by Microsoft and made available as a downloadable tool that was used by customers around the globe assisting them with Cloud adoption.
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Francis, Leonard S. M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Cloud computing : implications for enterprise software vendors (ESV)." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/47862.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design and Management Program, 2009.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-69).<br>'Cloud computing', is a broad concept and in general is a term used for internet-based computing resources that are in an unspecified remote location or locations and that are flexible and fungible. Clouds provide a wide range of computing capability available as a service where users are separated from the underlying technology by a set of APIs. These computing capabilities are made available by abstracting at different levels; at the hardware level, development platform or the applications level. Cloud computing is particularly helpful to application developers and IT operations because it allows them to focus on the service/application provided rather than worrying about scaling, failure, maintenance or reliability of these computing resources. By consolidating and sharing computing resources among multiple tenants thus improving utilization, cloud computing brings cost savings to end users. The higher the abstraction level, greater are the benefits resulting from better resource utilization and thus more cost savings, both for providers and end users. As computing resources become cheaper, network connectivity and bandwidth improve both in terms of availability and pricing and human resources becomes expensive, cloud computing is increasingly seen as viable replacement of enterprise owned local IT infrastructure.<br>(cont.) With the adoption of cloud computing comes a major shift in the underlying architecture of how we develop, deploy, deliver and run applications compared to existing behavior where we run applications on local computing resources and thus increasing pressure on enterprise software vendors to adopt these new business model for software development and new alternate software delivery models that are supported by and derive the benefits of cloud computing. While legacy enterprise software can simply be installed and run on instances on the cloud using cloud based infrastructure services, maximum benefits are realized by end users when these applications itself are provided as a service in the form of a platform or software. To do so, in most cases, legacy enterprise software would have to go through an architecture overhaul to be able to deliver existing functionalities as a platform or software as a service. Enterprise software vendors would also have to change their current business models where large license revenues, high maintenance cost of antiquated versions and heavily invested customers are the standard and move to pay-per-use cloud computing model. This thesis aims to study the implications of 'Cloud Computing' trends on the development, distribution, business models and the business of enterprise software vendors. This thesis tries to chart and predict the progress of trends in computing towards 'cloud computing', connect those trends to enterprise software usage changes and determine the impact on enterprise software vendors.<br>(cont.) This will help enterprise software vendors to determine what if any strategic options available will help adopt this technological innovation and conform to future enterprise software requirements based on this trend.<br>by Leonard Francis.<br>S.M.
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Runsewe, Olubisi Atinuke. "A Policy-Based Management Framework for Cloud Computing Security." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31503.
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Cloud Computing has changed how computing is done as applications and services are being consumed from the cloud. It has attracted a lot of attention in recent times due to the opportunities it offers. While Cloud Computing is economical, the security challenges it poses are quite significant and this has affected the adoption rate of the technology. With the potential vulnerabilities being introduced by moving data to the cloud, it has become imperative for cloud service providers to guarantee the security of information, leaving cloud service consumers (e.g., enterprises) with the task of negotiating the terms and conditions of services provided by the cloud service providers as well as trusting them with their data. Although various security solutions used for addressing the security of data within the enterprises are now being applied to the cloud, these security solutions are challenged due to the dynamic, distributed and complex nature of the cloud technology.
This thesis proposes a novel Policy-Based Management (PBM) framework capable of achieving cross-tenant authorization, handling dynamic and anonymous users while reducing the security management task to address cloud security. The framework includes an access control model adapted to the cloud environment that adopts features from role-based, task-based and attribute-based access control frameworks for a fine-grained access control. We demonstrate how this framework can be applied to develop an access control system for an enterprise using cloud services. The framework verifies the correctness of access control policies for cloud security through reasoning technique.
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David, Petr. "Podnikový informační systém v éře cloud computingu." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-82020.
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The thesis deals with the latest trend in providing ICT service -- Cloud Computing -- and its possible application in enterprise information systems generally. The aim of the thesis is to evaluate market readiness for Cloud Computing services in order to find out to which extent it is possible to cover enterprise information system, or rather its software applications, on strategic and tactical management levels using the above-mentioned services. To achieve the aim, it is necessary to determine both the Cloud Computing services market and the enterprise information system sphere and then to decide whether Cloud Computing services are able to cover the basic needs of enterprise information systems. The evaluation of the market readiness will be executed in accordance with both the specially created methodology and the defined requirements. Thus the present market readiness rating will be possible to determine. The thesis should show to which extent it is possible to apply Cloud Computing model to the enterprise information systems issue. It will also be possible to find out the factors which support this application the most and, on the other hand, which factors limit this application the most. The thesis will also show which fields are advanced enough, which services we can consider and what we can expect of these services.
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Chiza, Albin Boris Lugerero. "Adoption of cloud computing services amongst the micro-enterprise sector in Cape Town." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2862.
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Thesis (MTech (Business Information Systems))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2018.<br>Micro-enterprises play a vital role towards the South Africa’s economic growth by contributing towards job creation. Despite the importance of the role of micro-enterprises, micro-enterprises face several challenges such as lack of finance, lack of skilled workers and lack of technological resources. Previous studies indicate that Information Technology has a distinct role in assisting micro-enterprises overcome several challenges. It is further evidenced in the extant literature that cloud computing, provides a low cost entry for enterprises to support several facets of their business operations. In the current era cloud computing requires a constant as well as fast internet connection and the South African government has various interventions to address the infrastructure divide. However, we have a scant understanding of the adoption challenges amongst micro-enterprises to adopt cloud solutions, which to date feature more prominently amongst larger organisations. This research investigated the factors that influence cloud computing adoption in the micro-enterprise sector in Cape Town. This is a city that promotes the contribution of micro-enterprises to their economic activity, and was such an ideal location to investigate cloud computing adoption amongst the micro-enterprise sector. This research provides a rich understanding of the factors that influence micro-enterprises in Cape Town to adopt cloud computing services and proposes guidelines to encourage micro-enterprises in Cape Town to use cloud services to improve their productivity. The researcher uses the UTAUT model as a framework and a qualitative research methodology to investigate the research question. Data for this research study was collected via face to face interviews with semi-structured questions of ten micro-enterprises and an IT expert. The findings showed that the factors influencing the adoption of cloud computing services are performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions, lack of training, cost efficiency and reduction of working hours.
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Pospíšil, Václav. "Analýza použitelnosti cloud computingu pro práci na dálku." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-165277.
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Cloud Computing has become a serious participant in ICT in past few years. Technical and economic attributes of Cloud Computing can change a forecast in an organization. These benefits are investigated and putted into large picture of teleworking. In critical moment there is flexibility, which is crucial either for the organization or for the individual. How much is flexibility important is illustrated on the example of organization, that is considering whether the cloud computing and teleworking is the right way for the their future.
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Montesinos-Rosales, Andrea, Sebastian Salas-Villacorta, David Mauricio-Sanchez, and Carlos Raymundo-Ibañez. "Cloud-based open-source enterprise content management model at a SME operating in the manufacturing sector." Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/656282.
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El texto completo de este trabajo no está disponible en el Repositorio Académico UPC por restricciones de la casa editorial donde ha sido publicado.<br>Every year, small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) expand their participation in the Peruvian market, while facing high internal disorganization issues that stifle their growth. This problem is rooted on the fact that the contents generated by these companies are not usually adequately recorded, managed, and exploited, and thus negatively affecting the organization and their competitiveness levels. Now, although most of this issue may be solved through enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, they are not affordable for most SMEs because of their high prices. Within this context, this study proposes the implementation of a cloud-based open-source ECM model at a manufacturing SME in Peru. Through this model, the company was able to access the benefits of an ECM to restructure the way they manage content, gaining 67% more efficiency, establishing a collaboration channel between employees, suppliers, and customers, and reporting a 93% model adaptation rate among staff members.<br>Revisión por pares
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Severin, Mats, Stefan Knutsson, and John Söderberg. "Business in the Cloud : Internationalization of a small enterprise in the age of cloud services." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-176088.
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During the past decade, advances in information technology have facilitated the rapid international expansion of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Cloud computing has enabled a new wave of firms to offer services on the web regardless of geographic distances. The aim of this study is to explore how cloud computing affect the external variables network and culture in the internationalization process of an SME. In order to explore the impact on these external variables, a qualitative case study is carried out on a business-to-business SME offering cloud services within small and open economies. The findings explain why closeness was important and why the cloud service firm was limited to a gradual internationalization process although the technology has the potential to break this pattern or accelerate it. The results from this study are valuable for scholars since the internationalization process of cloud service firms is an under-researched area. It is also useful for cloud service SMEs when making strategic decisions in the internationalization process.
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Santos, Nuno Miguel Carvalho [Verfasser], and Rodrigo [Akademischer Betreuer] Rodrigues. "Improving trust in cloud, enterprise, and mobile computing platforms / Nuno Miguel Carvalho Santos. Betreuer: Rodrigo Rodrigues." Saarbrücken : Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, 2013. http://d-nb.info/105367998X/34.
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Kutil, Ivan. "Google jako enterprise řešení firmy." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-85156.
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The diploma thesis deals with the topic of cloud computing and its appropriate deployment in small and medium business. The objective of this thesis is to analyze the offer of Google products and to demonstrate measurable benefits of this solution. Introductory part of the thesis summarizes the history of IT and it is looking for the connection between history of IT and the term cloud computing. This term is described in detail with selected cloud computing characteristics. The main part of the thesis deals with analysis of Google services, technologies and platforms, which could be used in enterprise. The matters are viewed not only economically, but also from the technological and security point of view. In practical implementations are demonstrated measurable benefits of deployment to the Google cloud platform. Finally, the thesis provides the summary of platform's advantages and disadvantages with a description of practical advices for small and medium businesses
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Engebrethson, Ryan. "COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ERP EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2012. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/739.
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This Master's Thesis compares technologies used in the architecture of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems to evaluate the benefits and advantages of emerging technologies. The emerging technologies, Cloud Computing, Software as a Service (SaaS) and Multi-Tenancy, could significantly alter the current ERP space and become a primary part of ERP Systems of the future. A survey was sent to industry professionals to obtain feedback on their company's ERP Systems and to collect their comments on these new technologies. The survey results and related analysis show that Emerging Cloud ERP Systems outperform Traditional Legacy ERP Systems in all important characteristics - Accessibility, Business Cost, Implementation Time, Mobility, Scalability, Upgradability, and Usability. Cloud Systems were also found to have a shorter implementation time and a larger proportion of Cloud Systems were on the most recent version of software. Furthermore, industry professionals identified Cloud Computing, SaaS and Mobility as the emerging technologies of the coming decade. This thesis demonstrates that there are significant benefits for companies to use ERP Systems that use the emerging technologies and that the shift to Cloud ERP Systems has begun.
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Dimitrov, Dimitar. "Towards cloud application architectural patterns: transfer, evolution, innovation and oblivion." Thesis, Tekniska Högskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, JTH. Forskningsmiljö Informationsteknik, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-27643.
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Recently, cloud computing has been gaining more and more popularity. Misunderstanding, misusing and underutilizing the cloud offerings, though, both from business and technical perspective still poses a threat to the success of cloud projects. On the technical side, one of the main reasons for success or failure is often the architectural design of the system – if a system is not architected the “cloud way”, using cloud’s special characteristics, the business benefits of such a system are often questionable at best. Software architecture through architectural patterns – reusable generic solutions to classes of problems – has for long been a good way to overcome the challenges of software architecture. This paper focuses on establishing the grounds and highlighting the differences of the knowledge transfer regarding architectural patterns from building pre-cloud (“traditional”) software systems to building cloud-native systems. The following 3 research questions drive this research: RQ1. How does the existing knowledge on architectural patterns relate to the cloud computing environment? RQ2. Which characteristics of architectural patterns make them suitable for the cloud environment? RQ3. How can architectural pattern evolution be documented effectively for usage in the practice? In order to answer these 3 research questions and considering their focus is on utility i.e. creating a model which can be directly used in practice, the research uses design science research methodology (Peffers, et al., 2007-8). The emphasis in this methodology is iteratively building artefact(s) which can be improved and proven through practice that they actually help solving the problem at hand. This research contributes with building 4 inter-connected artefacts: a cloud applicability taxonomy of architectural patterns (CATAP) showing how applicable to a cloud environment an architectural pattern is and why; a pattern-to-characteristics mapping showing how using an architectural pattern affects the resulting system in traditional and cloud environments; a pattern form documenting the architectural patterns and the findings about them in the previous two artefacts; a wiki site, APE Wiki, which makes the results available to the public for reference and discussion and improvement. This research has a few interesting findings. First of all, the current architectural pattern knowledge seems to be very mature as no pattern has been found to have significantly evolved because of cloud – the architectural patterns are really generic and very flexible and only their effect on system characteristics has changed with the environment switch. On the other hand, a few new patterns were discovered and documented, which confirms the need for special attention to the new environment. Apart from that, the pattern-to-characteristics mapping provides interesting insights into which characteristics are most important for cloud and where there is a gap which may need to be filled. This paper presents both the process and the results of the research as equally important as replicating and extending this research could help in maturing the results and the knowledge about architecting systems for cloud thus increasing the chances of success of cloud projects.
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Correia, Magda Sofia Coelho. "Aplicação da plataforma SaaS - Software as a Service em Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/10499.
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Mestrado em Gestão e Estratégia Industrial<br>As últimas evoluções tecnológicas na área das TI deram origem ao aparecimento dos conceitos de cloud computing e de software as a service que permitem às empresas aceder a aplicações para a gestão e monitorização do seu negócio normalmente a um baixo custo e á medida das suas necessidades. Este trabalho procura clarificar o conceito de cloud computing e Software as a Service, perceber o que esta alteração na forma de distribuição de um software irá alterar nas organizações e nas implementações de sistemas ERP. Compara as diferenças nas metodologias de implementação, mas também os efeitos tecnológicos e organizacionais que esta nova abordagem trás às empresas.<br>The latest technological developments in the IT area led to the emergence of the concepts, of cloud computing and software as a service that allow companies to access applications for the management and control of their business at a low cost but also, matching the technological complexity with their process needs. This work intends to clarify the concept of cloud computing and Software as a Service, enlighten, new method of software distribution will change organizations and ERP implementation. This work also compares the difference in implementation methodology, but also the technological and organizational effects that go behind this new approach.
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Fialová, Lenka. "Moderní cloudová řešení v podniku." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-241386.
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This diploma thesis deals with the use of the cloud in a particular company. The main objective is to select a system that enables sharing and synchronizing data between employees and to prepare a proposal to deploy the system with regard to specific needs of the analyzed company. As part of the work is also the situation analysis, opportunity study and risk analysis.
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Kalibjian, J. R. "Telemetry Post-Processing in the Clouds: A Data Security Challenge." International Foundation for Telemetering, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/595799.
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ITC/USA 2011 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Seventh Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 24-27, 2011 / Bally's Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada<br>As organizations move toward cloud [1] computing environments, data security challenges will begin to take precedence over network security issues. This will potentially impact telemetry post processing in a myriad of ways. After reviewing how data security tools like Enterprise Rights Management (ERM), Enterprise Key Management (EKM), Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Database Activity Monitoring (DAM), and tokenization are impacting cloud security, their effect on telemetry post-processing will also be examined. An architecture will be described detailing how these data security tools can be utilized to make telemetry post-processing environments in the cloud more robust.
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Denys, Paul. "Security of Personal Information in Cloud Computing : Identifying and mitigating against risks to privacy in the deployment of Enterprise Systems Applications on the Software as a Service platform." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för datavetenskap och kommunikation, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-5726.
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The emergence and subsequent growth of Cloud computing has brought with it a great deal of change in the manner in which the world undertakes to compute and store information. This new technology has brought with it immense possibilities as far as processing of information and the pooling of resources is concerned. This potential has also been noticed by the public sector, as Governments all over the world have undertaken to introduce what has come to be known as e-Government, the provisioning of Government services and communications via Web based applications, rather than the traditional means of in person contact and paper based collection of personal information. While the move to Web based Government has been occurring for the last 20 or so years, a new development in this area is the introduction of Cloud computing and Cloud-based computing platforms, most notably Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) in the provisioning of these services. The computing and efficiency potential of this technology cannot be disputed, yet it’s important to recognize that taking advantage of this computing power does come at a price. That price being significant threats to personal privacy and security of personally identifiable information. This thesis will make it easier for government agencies to make informed decisions about whether or not to migrate data and applications into the cloud. The identification and analysis of potential risks to data security and personal information has drawn together key information from a multitude of both academic and industry sources to make such a decision plausible.
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Juříček, Michal. "ERP formou SaaS a mobilní technologie v logistice." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-358958.
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This thesis is focused on the use of enterprise information systems (ERP) provided as a service (SaaS) together with mobile technologies in an enterprise with logistics activities. The goal of the thesis is to find out whether a Czech market offers the ERP provided as a service suitable for needs of the model enterprise. This is achieved by specifying a set of criteria and following comparison and evaluation of the chosen ERP systems in two phases. The result is one chosen system which suits the best to specified criteria and therefore the needs of the model enterprise. Subsequently for the chosen system (and its offered func-tionalities) possibilities of its use with mobile technologies are described for model enterprise processes.
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Joos, Filip Alexius. "Implementace DMS v malých a středních firmách formou cloudového řešení." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-162522.
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This thesis analyzes the field of Document Management Systems (DMS) in Small and medium enterprises (SME). To be more specific, it analyzes ways and opportunities of a transition of the actual company situation to a cloud solution realized by the means of outsourcing. Due to the fact that this transition consists of many steps, some of them are critical for a successful realization, those steps have to be precisely analyzed and afterwards a corresponding solution has to be proposed. This analysis describes in a detail all the connections, which may interfere with each other and which may also interfere with the whole transition. The goals of this thesis are mainly to provide a specialized analysis of the transition to the cloud DMS, analysis of available cloud solutions, their categorization and assessment, description of connections emerging from the use of the cloud DMS in Small and medium enterprises, description of impacts of realized solutions and finally a summary of the analysis into a compact unit designated to be used as a manual for cloud DMS implementation in the Small and medium enterprise.
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Gustafsson, Bennet, and Alexander Orrgren. "Cloud Computing : The Adoption of Cloud Computing for Small and Medium Enterprises." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Informatik, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-18505.
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The objective with this research was to investigate and understand the adoption of cloud computing and to find the process of adopting cloud services. The method used to collect data was interviews. To find both the users and the providers perspective two cases were investigated, one user case and one provider case. The results were divided into two parts, the first a number of categories that were found when comparing the user case to the provider case, the second a process that describes the adoption of cloud computing. The categories in the first part of the results are; decision process, definition of cloud computing, integration and security, adoption and future development. When analyzing the results we came to the conclusion that both users and providers are striving for simplicity, security and to move the responsibility away from the user. The adoption of cloud computing is not as complex as many organizations have thought and by moving the applications and hardware out of the organization the user can focus on its core strategies.
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Hill, Bethany. "Digital Divide: Investigating the integration of marketing and ICTs for South African retailers expanding throughout Africa." Master's thesis, Faculty of Commerce, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31410.
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Information Communication Technologies are increasingly used in organisations’ market expansion strategies. These Information communication technologies provide organisations with opportunities such as ease of communication and movement of resources, making the entry into new markets a faster and less resource heavy process. When expanding throughout the African continent, the challenge presented in using this approach is that many African markets have underdeveloped information communication technology infrastructure. In considering this barrier, the extent to which information communication technology enables market expansion throughout the African continent is the topic which has been fully analysed and discussed. An exploratory research design and a qualitative method have been used in this study. The subjects of the data collection were three key individuals selected from a large South African retailer. These three individuals job roles spanned across the marketing and IT departments and were influential in the organisation’s expansion efforts throughout Africa. The findings of this study show that the levels of information communication technology infrastructure vary vastly from country to country on the African continent, noting South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Zambia and Botswana as the more advanced nations with the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda lagging in development. The findings also show that for retailers, the retail focused technology available in South Africa is not yet available in other African nations which causes challenges in offering the same value to consumers across the board. However, the finding show that the development of cloud-based systems has assisted in the widespread use of technologies without the need of heavy investments into physical locations.
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Petrík, Vladimír. "Analýza nabídky ERP systémů pro malé a střední podniky formou SaaS v ČR." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-197894.
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The aim of this work is the issue of Enterprise Resource Planning offered by way of Systems as a service and the suitability of this implementation for small and medium enterprises. Theoretical part describes the genesis and development of Enterprise Resource Planning, their functionality and purpose. There's also specified the term Cloud computing, its principles, advantages and disadvantages and options of distribution. One of the principles of the distribution, System as a Service is described in detail, including the necessary Service-level agreement, and its capabilities in providing Enterprise Resource Planning. The practical part of the work consists of developing a comprehensive overview of the Czech market of Enterprise Resource Planning offered in the form of rent System as a Service. This list is analyzed from the perspective of a key customer for this product, namely Small and medium enterprises. The last part of this work consists of obtaining customer references and supplier experiences from already realized projects.
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Kašpar, Jan. "Posouzení informačního systému firmy a návrh změn." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-241578.
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The Master‘s thesis deals with the design of information system of the company KLAS Nekoř a.s. Based on the analysis, I will present suggestions to improve information system of the company. Master‘s thesis assesses the current situation of the information system of the company and establishes requirements for the selection of the optimal solution. It also describes the steps for the implementation of a new information system in the company KLAS Nekoř a.s.
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Šimeček, Martin. "Analýza faktorů ovlivňujících přechod malých a středních podniků na cloudové ECM služby." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-150242.
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This thesis deals with a specific area of cloud computing - Enterprise Content Management services and their adoption among small and medium-sized businesses. The main goal is to identify and analyse factors affecting the expansion of cloud ECM services among SMBs. Secondary goals include definition of basic concepts, introduction of benefits and risks, definition of a suitable category, presentation of several products from this category, analysis of cloud computing adoption surveys, identification and analysis of main adoption barriers, description of products with focus on identified barriers and compilation of a set of recommendations for cloud service providers. These goals were achieved by studying literature, searching and analyzing cloud computing adoption surveys and consulting with professionals. This thesis contributes to the field with mapping of real world companies' opinions into practical recommendations for cloud computing vendors. Other contributions include definition of product parameters that are important when making a cloud ECM adoption decision, presentation of current market situation and how individual producers deal with main customers' barriers. Benefits for customers include cloud ECM market overview and showing which facts are worth their notice.
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Trivedi, Hrishikesh. "Cloud computing adoption model for governments and large enterprises." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/80675.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2013.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-81).<br>Cloud Computing has held organizations across the globe spell bound with its promise. As it moves from being a buzz word and hype into adoption, organizations are faced with question of how to best adopt cloud. Existing frameworks of cloud adoption look at different aspects of cloud but stop short of taking a view of the complete spectrum and suggesting a path. Cloud Computing adoption requires that organizations have readiness on multiple dimensions including Governance, Process Analysis and Improvement, Application Rationalization and Modernization, and Hardware and Software Standardization. Readiness in turn determines how far organizations can go in their cloud programs with key milestones being Proof of Concepts, Infrastructure Service, Virtual Desktop, Platform Service and Enterprise Software as Service. Readiness and Milestones inform us about multiple stages in cloud adoption. The analysis also indicates that certain governance structures are most suitable for cloud adoption. The duration of cloud program for a large organization lies in years, even multiple five year plans. Analyses of case studies indicate all these views and the systems modeling for enterprise software as service, in addition corroborates the likely duration of cloud program. For systems model we have used factors such as Total Non-Cloud Applications, Rationalization and Modernization Rate, Rate of Conversion into Enterprise Software as Service and Budget. The proposed Cloud Computing Adoption Model can help organizations understand what capabilities they need to develop, where they are on the cloud adoption spectrum and how much time it could take to go to cloud.<br>by Hrishikesh Trivedi.<br>S.M.
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Sýkora, Ondřej. "Modul evidence majetku provozovaný jako služba v ERP pro malé a střední firmy." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-124669.
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This diploma thesis deals with a comparison of available "as a service" solutions for enterprise asset records for small and medium businesses in the Czech market. The aim is to find solutions that would best suit the needs of companies to acquire a new system as a service module such as elimination of large initial investment into selected solution and extensive funding for its maintenance. The thesis introduces concepts such as ERP ASP, SaaS, Cloud computing, SLA and their characteristics in the theoretical part of the thesis, which is in the first two chapters. The practical part -- third and fourth chapter -- deals with the practical analysis of current business process property records, finding the gaps and the call for essential criteria for the selection of a new solution. It also search for available solutions in the Czech Republic and analyzes their characteristics at the base of pre-selected criteria and peer comparison. The fifth and last chapter deals with the calculation and evaluation of the suitability and subsequent recommendations for the selection of a particular solution. The thesis draws data from publicly available information provided by suppliers of "as a service" modules solutions for enterprise asset records management.
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Hellbe, Simon, and Peter Leung. "DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION : HOW APIS DRIVE BUSINESS MODEL CHANGE AND INNOVATION." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Industriell ekonomi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-119506.
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Over the years, information technology has created opportunities to improve and extend businesses and to start conducting business in new ways. With the evolution of IT, all businesses and industries are becoming increasingly digitized. This process, or coevolution, of IT and business coming together is called digital transformation. One of the recent trends in this digital transformation is the use of application programmable interfaces (APIs). APIs are standardized digital communication interfaces, used for communication and exchange of information between systems, services and devices (such as computers, smartphones and connected machines). API communication is one of the foundational building blocks in recent disruptive technology trends such as mobile and cloud computing. The purpose of this study is to gain an understanding of the business impact that is created in digital transformation related to the use of APIs. To investigate this novel area, an exploratory study is performed where a frame of reference with an exploratory framework is created based on established academic literature. The exploratory framework consists of three main parts which cover the research questions, including Business Drivers, Business Model Change & Innovation and Challenges & Limitations related to API-enabled digital transformation. The framework is used to gather empirical data consisting of two types, interviews (primary data) and contemporary reports (secondary data). Interviews are performed with API-utilizing companies, consulting firms and IT solution providers and contemporary reports are published by consulting and technology research and advisory firms. Two main business drivers are identified in the study. The first is Understanding & Satisfying Customer Needs which is derived from companies experiencing stronger and changing demands for automated, personalized value-adding services. This requires higher degree of integration across channels and organizations. The second driver is Business Agility, which derives from higher requirements on adapting to changing environments while maintaining operational efficiency. Cost Reduction is also mentioned as a third and secondary driver, as a positive side-effect in combination with the other drivers. The identified impact on business models is that business model innovation is mostly happening in the front-end of business model towards customers. Several examples also exist of purely API-enabled businesses that sell services or manage information exchanges over APIs. The challenges and limitations identified are mostly classic challenges of using IT in businesses and not specific to use of APIs, where the general consensus is that IT and business need to become more integrated, and that strategy and governance for API-initiatives need to be established.
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Ljungberg, Cajsa, and Sara Olsson. "Up in the Cloud : Exploring small and medium-sized enterprises cloud computing adoption factors." Thesis, Jönköping University, Internationella Handelshögskolan, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-52812.
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Background: The intense growth of data that is continuously expanding has resulted in SMEs using cloud computing to store, process and analyze data. Thus, a critical element is for SMEs to understand the value of cloud computing and the factors influencing the adoption decision. Problem: Due to the increased use of cloud computing, the importance of examining the factors that can affect and impact SMEs adoption has been highlighted. Cloud computing has been pointed out as a component for SMEs to stay competitive and sustainable in public crises and uncertain environments. Despite the importance among scholars, no research has studied cloud adoption factors among SMEs during 2020 - 2021 and the present of a public crisis. Purpose: The purpose of this research is to investigate and explore SMEs cloud computing adoption factors in the turbulent time of a public crisis. The result of this research is expected to add knowledge and theoretical insights to existing literature and fill the gap within the underexplored context of cloud computing adoption factors during public crisis. Method: In this research, a qualitative research design was applied where six semi-structured interviews with people experienced of the phenomenon under study were conducted and eight customer cases with cloud users were collected from cloud providers' websites. Conclusion: The findings of this research declared ten significantly important factors; complexity, compatibility, relative advantage, cost savings, security, top management support, technology readiness, organizational culture, competition and trading partner pressure and supplier computing support, to influence SMEs cloud computing adoption. Although this research was conducted during the time of a public crisis, no conclusion of the crisis' impact on which factors influencing SMEs cloud computing adoption could be recognized.
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Dhiman, Ashok. "Analysis of on-premise to cloud computing migration strategies for enterprises." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70796.
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Thesis (S.M. in Engineering and Management)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, System Design and Management Program, 2011.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 72-73).<br>In recent years offering and maturity in Cloud Computing space has gained significant momentum. CIOs are looking at Cloud seriously because of bottom line savings and scalability advantages. According to Gartner's survey in early 2010 of 1600 CIOs around the world, Cloud computing and virtualization were on top of their list. This interest has also resulted in slew of products and services from existing IT players as well as new comers which promise to offer many solutions to pave the path towards Cloud computing adoption by enterprises. As organizations get on to the Cloud computing bandwagon they are looking at their current IT setup and looking at the best way they can take advantage of what Cloud has to offer. For a given enterprises, getting on to Cloud might be a complete new start from scratch, a limited deployment of new applications or migration of part of existing applications integrating backwards with on-premise applications. To take advantage of the Cloud, enterprise will need to define their short and long term Cloud strategy. They will need to consider factors specific to their businesses and determine their requirements, risks and benefits. Proper investigation by the enterprise will give them insight in to the benefits and specific strategy they need to follow to gain the said benefits from Cloud. This Thesis analyzes specific strategies which enterprises can adopt, both from business and technology perspective to make sure the migration and integration between on-premise and Cloud happens with minimal disruption to business and results in maximum sustainable cost benefit. It presents the current state of On-Premise IT and Cloud Computing space and then compares them to come up with enterprise specific variables based on which one can make Cloud migration decisions. Finally, Thesis presents the broad frameworks for "migration to Cloud" and confirms the same by interviewing enterprise managers involved in Cloud migration. There are various ways to slice and approach the Cloud migration - but all should take in to consideration the business processes, architecture of existing systems, architecture of available Cloud services, interoperability between on-premise and Cloud applications, maturity of Cloud and standards, short and long term cost savings, sustainability, data/security/regulation, user adoption, available Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and business criticality.<br>by Ashok Dhiman.<br>S.M.in Engineering and Management
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Enslin, Zacharias. "Cloud computing : COBIT-mapped benefits, risks and controls for consumer enterprises." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/20116.
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Thesis (MComm)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Cloud computing has emerged as one of the most hyped information technology topics of the decade. Accordingly, many information technology service offerings are now termed as cloud offerings. Cloud computing has attracted, and continues to attract, extensive technical research attention. However, little guidance is given to prospective consumers of the cloud computing services who may not possess technical knowledge, or be interested in the in-depth technical aspects aimed at information technology specialists. Yet these consumers need to make sense of the possible advantages that may be gained from utilising cloud services, as well as the possible incremental risks it may expose an enterprise to.
The aim of this study is to inform enterprise managers, who possess business knowledge and may also be knowledgeable on the main aspects of COBIT, on the topic of cloud computing. The study focuses on the significant benefits which the utilisation of cloud computing services may bring to a prospective consumer enterprise, as well as the significant incremental risks this new technological advancement may expose the enterprise to. Proposals of possible controls that the prospective consumer enterprise can implement to mitigate the incremental risks of cloud computing are also presented.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: “Cloud computing” (wolkbewerking) het na vore getree as een van die mees opspraakwekkende inligtingstegnologieverwante onderwerpe van die dekade. Gevolglik word talle inligtingstegnologie-dienste nou as “cloud”-dienste aangebied. Uitgebreide aandag in terme van tegnologiese navorsing is en word steeds deur “cloud computing” ontlok. Weinig aandag word egter geskenk aan leiding vir voornemende verbruikers van “cloud”-dienste, wie moontlik nie tegniese kennis besit nie, of nie belangstel in die diepgrondige tegniese aspekte wat op inligtingstegnologie-spesialiste gemik is nie. Tog moet hierdie verbruikers sin maak van die moontlike voordele wat die gebruik van “cloud”-dienste mag bied, asook die moontlike inkrementele risiko’s waaraan die onderneming blootgestel mag word.
Die doel van hierdie studie is om die bestuurders van ondernemings, wie besigheidskennis besit en moontlik ook kundig is oor die hoof aspekte van COBIT, in te lig oor wat “cloud computing” is. Die studie fokus op die beduidende voordele wat die benutting van “cloud computing”-dienste aan die voornemende verbruikersonderneming mag bied, asook die beduidende inkrementele risiko’s waaraan die onderneming blootgestel mag word as gevolg van hierdie tegnologiese vooruitgang. Voorstelle van moontlike beheermaatreëls wat die voornemende verbruikersonderneming kan implementeer ten einde die inkrementele risiko’s van “cloud computing” teë te werk word ook aangebied.
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Dhali, Salauddin. "A study on cloud computing adopton in small and medium enterprises." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för teknik och samhälle (TS), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-20042.
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Innovation of new technology and its adoption contributes not only increasing the businessvalues but as well facilities the business growth and agility to an organization. Cloudcomputing provides hiring, renting and provisioning exclusive use of IT services as ondemand,pay-per-use basis via Internet. This emergence technology has shifted the competitiveIT-landscapes by providing a new computational platform for effective, creativeand deliverable business value model. However, many small organizations are reluctantto deploy their IT platform to Cloud due to the diverse adoption barriers cloud suffers.Despite this the promising attributes CC offers such as of IT operational cost reduction,accessibility and instant deployment makes it a vital embarking point to adopt this technologyespecially small and medium base enterprises (SME). Since SMEs are exploringthe possibilities of adopting this technology, it is imperative for them to critically evaluatethe feasibility of this technology for their specific businesses. This paper aims to investigatecloud adoption factors which might pursue pertaining or embarking cloud integrationamong SME’s. An on line web based survey instrument using questionnaires was used toconduct the study. The conclusive findings of the study suggests that Cloud computinghas the potential to transform the existing business operation, increase the business valuesand agility, customer relationship also promote sustainable competitive business edgefor SMEs while reducing the IT capital expenditure investment cost. The findings willassist IT managers/Chief Technology and /or Information Officers(CTO/CIO) representsthe SMEs for considering a possible adoption approach to cloud services.
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Werfs, Marc. "Stepping into the clouds : enabling companies to adapt their capabilities to cloud computing to succeed under uncertain conditions." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15651.
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Recent technologies have changed the way companies acquire and use computing resources. Companies have to adapt their capabilities, which combine business processes, skills, etc., to exploit the opportunities presented by these technologies whilst avoiding adverse effects. The latter part is, however, becoming increasingly difficult due to the uncertain long-term impact recent technologies have. This thesis argues that companies are required to adapt their capabilities in a way that increases the company's resilience so that they are robust yet flexible enough to succeed under uncertain conditions. By focusing on cloud computing as one recent technology, this thesis first identifies the underlying processes of adapting capabilities to cloud computing by investigating how software vendors migrated their products into the cloud. The results allow the definition of viewpoints that influence the adaptation of capabilities to cloud computing. Furthermore, the Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM) is applied to one software vendor after the migration of their product into the cloud. FRAM enables the analysis of ‘performance variabilities' that need to be dampened to increase the resilience of systems. The results show that FRAM appropriately informs steps to increase and measure resilience when migrating products into the cloud. The final part develops cFRAM which extends FRAM through the viewpoints to enable the analysis of capabilities within FRAM. The goal of cFRAM is to enable companies to (1) identify existing capabilities, (2) investigate the impact of cloud computing on them, and (3) inform steps to adapt them to cloud computing whilst dampening performance variabilities. The results of the cFRAM evaluation study are unequivocal and show cFRAM is a novel method that achieves its goal of enabling companies to adapt their capabilities to cloud computing in a way that increases the company's resilience. cFRAM can be easily adapted to other technologies like smartphones by changing the viewpoints.
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Abubakar, Dahiru Abubakar. "Cloud computing adoption by SMEs in Sub-Saharan Africa." Thesis, Robert Gordon University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10059/1575.
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This research contributes to the growing body of research on cloud computing and addresses the paucity of research on cloud computing adoption, as well as information systems (IS) and information communication technologies (ICTs) adoption in sub-Saharan Africa. The research addresses the current state of cloud computing adoption in addition to the issues that can encourage or preclude its use by SMEs in sub-Saharan Africa. Further, the research establishes the extent to which cloud computing adoption stimulates small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in sub-Saharan Africa to contribute to development. A qualitative research methodology with an interpretive viewpoint is adopted for this research comprising of two major phases that involved a total of eighteen small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria. A pilot exploratory study using grounded theory was conducted in the initial phase and the development and refinement of a conceptual framework for analysis and evaluation was carried out in the second phase. The framework is theoretically grounded in the integration of two distinct theoretical traditions, i.e. institutions theory and the capability approach. This is the first research study that employs such a combination to examine cloud computing adoption. This research examines the expectations of cloud users against their fears together with other related influences to draw conclusions regarding the future of cloud computing usage in sub-Saharan Africa. The research found that SMEs considered issues like security, privacy and trust as playing a role in enabling adoption of cloud computing. This is in contrast with SMEs in the global north where these specific issues are discouraging adoption. The research recommends to policy makers and stakeholders interested in developing the cloud infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa, that there is the need to be cautious in drafting policies (which are non-existent at present). This is in order not to draft policies and regulations with regard to cloud computing usage that will inhibit adoption. Finally, this research presents an incremental model that is used to analyse how cloud service provision was introduced in sub-Saharan Africa. The novel three-stage maturity model identified the incremental approach to the delivery of cloud services in sub-Saharan Africa which started from (i) no local provision, (ii) cloud brokers promoting foreign cloud service provision and (iii) locally-available cloud service provision over a period of three to four years. This research envisages that, with further development of the cloud infrastructure especially in terms of internet connectivity, and improved awareness, more SMEs will adopt cloud computing as part of their IS/ICT strategy.
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Hanyk, Tomáš. "Výběr informačního systému." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-241520.
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This diploma thesis deals with the selection of an appropriate information system which should help to make the company processes more effective. It should also save time and enable faster adaptation to new changes in the company PORTABELL. The first part describes the essential theory to get the reader acquainted with the issues, the second part is dedicated to the analysis of corporate environment and its trouble spots. The last part deals with the selection of the information system. The information system is chosen based on the predetermined criteria and requirements.
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Ganta, Sathvik. "A Framework to Incorporate Industry 4.0 into SME to Enhance Resource Planning." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Innovation och produktrealisering, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-47421.
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Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) have grown steadily in recent years. SMEs generate 59.7 % of value-added and 65.5 % of employment in the ‘non-financial business economy’ in Sweden. It's important for the success of SMEs to be ready to provide high product availability to customers at minimal operation costs. The challenges faced by SMEs are tougher in global competition. There is a rapid growth in the industrial revolution to deal with the challenges as well as competition. This work mainly focuses on implementing resource planning (RP) and adapting to the latest technologies of Industry 4.0 into SMEs to face the challenges. But incorporating Industry 4.0 in a major struggle in the SMEs. The thesis provides a view of Resource Planning implementation. The authors describe the resource planning implementation techniques and define the requirements for its successful implementation. Resource Planning (RP) adoption factors have been studied quite extensively over the years. However, this master thesis tries to investigate the less explored area of resource planning. Relatively a smaller amount of research has been conducted, when it comes to implementation of Industry 4.0 technologies especially in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Industry 4.0 provides new paradigms for the industrial management of SMEs. Supported by a growing number of new technologies, this concept appears more flexible and less expensive than traditional enterprise information systems. This paper presents a literature review of existing applied research covering different Industry 4.0 issues about SMEs. Furthermore, the analysis is done to understand the correlation between the identified factors of Industry 4.0 technologies. The research findings indicate that the use of IoT and Cloud computing are major advantages for resource planning in an SME. The results from the analysis are presented in a framework designed for the future adaptation of these technologies. Despite the research limitations, the findings show a high advantage. Finally, the author suggests a future scope of research.
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Adam, Elena Daniela. "Knowledge management cloud-based solutions in small enterprises." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Informatik, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-28275.
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Purpose – The aim of this study is to determine if adopting cloud-based knowledge management is a viable way forward for small enterprises and to investigate what are the main factors that might facilitate or inhibit these companies to adopt such solutions.Design/Methodology/Approach - In order to understand the main factors that could influence the adoption of a cloud-based knowledge management solution in small enterprises, I used a qualitative research approach, based on four semi-structured interviews with four small companies from Romania.Findings – The results of the study suggest that implementing knowledge management in the cloud is particularly beneficial for small enterprises, as a lower investment in IT infra-structure can create a competitive advantage and help them implement knowledge man-agement activities as a strategic resource. Moreover, the study suggests that relative ad-vantage, compatibility and technology readiness will influence companies in moving their knowledge to the cloud. Also, the study reveals that companies which did not adopt such a solution had already established systems for managing knowledge and failed to realize its benefits, it was not perceived as needed, they had a low level of awareness or cited security and uncertainty reasons.
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Azogu, Olajumoke Oluwaseye. "The Acceptance and Use of Cloud Computing Services by Small and Medium Enterprises in Lagos, Nigeria." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc984117/.
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This study explored the acceptance of cloud computing (CC) services by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Lagos, Nigeria, which has been missing from CC services literature. It aimed to understand the motivations for adoption, the uses of the services, and the benefits they derive from it. The uses and gratification theory was applied as the theoretic framework for this endeavor. An online survey with close-ended and open-ended questions was distributed to 1200 randomly selected participants through email. In total, 392 valid responses were collected and analyzed using descriptive statistics and categories. The results found that SMEs in Lagos, Nigeria had a low level of awareness and appreciation of CC services. The adoption rate was also low. Unlike their counterparts in other regions, SMEs primary concerns were service downtime, stable power supply, and better internet access. The study found that SMEs were not taking full advantage of the capabilities of CC services. Some sections, however, were doing better than others, such as the information and communications sub-sector. This study suggested that targeted interventions should be conducted to raise the awareness of CC services in SMEs, and to improve their efficient and effective use of CC services. The uses and gratification theory was appropriate for guiding this study to understand the acceptance and use of CC services by SMEs in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Khajeh-Hosseini, Ali. "Supporting system deployment decisions in public clouds." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3412.
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Decisions to deploy IT systems on public Infrastructure-as-a-Service clouds can be complicated as evaluating the benefits, risks and costs of using such clouds is not straightforward. The aim of this project was to investigate the challenges that enterprises face when making system deployment decisions in public clouds, and to develop vendor-neutral tools to inform decision makers during this process. Three tools were developed to support decision makers: 1. Cloud Suitability Checklist: a simple list of questions to provide a rapid assessment of the suitability of public IaaS clouds for a specific IT system. 2. Benefits and Risks Assessment tool: a spreadsheet that includes the general benefits and risks of using public clouds; this provides a starting point for risk assessment and helps organisations start discussions about cloud adoption. 3. Elastic Cost Modelling: a tool that enables decision makers to model their system deployment options in public clouds and forecast their costs. These three tools collectively enable decision makers to investigate the benefits, risks and costs of using public clouds, and effectively support them in making system deployment decisions. Data was collected from five case studies and hundreds of users to evaluate the effectiveness of the tools. This data showed that the cost effectiveness of using public clouds is situation dependent rather than universally less expensive than traditional forms of IT provisioning. Running systems on the cloud using a traditional 'always on' approach can be less cost effective than on-premise servers, and the elastic nature of the cloud has to be considered if costs are to be reduced. Decision makers have to model the variations in resource usage and their systems' deployment options to obtain accurate cost estimates. Performing upfront cost modelling is beneficial as there can be significant cost differences between different cloud providers, and different deployment options within a single cloud. During such modelling exercises, the variations in a system's load (over time) must be taken into account to produce more accurate cost estimates, and the notion of elasticity patterns that is presented in this thesis provides one simple way to do this.
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Kari, Tim, and Wesley Kleinreesink. "Internet-of-Things and cloud computing adoption in manufacturing among small to medium sized enterprises in Sweden : A multiple case study on current IoT and cloud computing technology adoption within Swedish SMEs." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för ekonomistyrning och logistik (ELO), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-95952.
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Title: Internet of things and cloud computing adoption within manufacturing among small to medium sized enterprises in Sweden. Authors: Tim Kari and Wesley Kleinreesink Background & Problem discussion: Industries in Europe are facing economic challenges related to global societal and technological developments. The adoption of industry 4.0 technologies such as IoT and cloud computing within manufacturing can be used as a solution to these challenges. SMEs form the backbone of the Swedish economy, making up a large amount of the employment and added value within the country, making them important in this context. Little is known about the maturity levels of IoT and cloud computing and the challenges encountered during adoption of of these technologies by Swedish SMEs. Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to investigate maturity levels of IoT and cloud computing adoptions and the associated adoption challenges by looking at Swedish SMEs in the manufacturing industry that are adopting or are interested in adopting IoT and cloud computing technologies within their manufacturing. By addressing the maturity levels and adoption challenges found among the cases and providing more insight into the context in which these are occurring. These insights can then be used for the purposes of addressing maturity levels as practitioner and contributing to current literature regarding maturity levels and adoption challenges found. Method: Following an exploratory research strategy, qualitative data has been gathered both in the form of a literature review as well as a multiple case study through semi-structured interviews. The data has then been analyzed by conducting a conceptual analysis, a cross-case synthesis and pattern matching Findings & Conclusion: The findings indicate that the levels of maturity vary highly between categories and cases, with only a few examples of reaching higher (integrated) levels of maturity. Adoption challenges found were mainly centered around organizational and human challenges as opposed to technical ones, indicating that further focus needs to be put on organizational change management. Furthermore, an apparent lack of knowledge among the case companies may explain both the narrow and simple implementations of IoT and cloud computing as well as the lack of drivers for further adoption. The implications of this means that managers need a larger focus on change management and more comprehensive implementation plans. There is also the need to consider the need for digitalization and to do it in an efficient and useful manner. Further research is needed on these topics, with possible avenues being a focus on smaller companies, a study with a larger sample size or a focus on industries with a higher volume of production as the ones presented in this study were all relatively low-volume.
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Toutcha, N'souh Yonkwa. "The impact of cloud computing on the role of an IT department : a case study of a higher education institution in the Western Cape." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2653.
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Thesis (MTech (Business Administration))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2017.<br>Information and communication technologies are moving fast. Consequently, organisations must be aware of this evolution and adapt to take full advantage of the benefits offered by these technologies. Cloud computing is a new concept of accessing data centers and various computing resources via the internet through any devices and from anywhere. Large organizations, such as Higher Education Institutions (HEI), are gradually adopting cloud computing to reduce their very high budgets. In emerging countries, more and more HEIs are adopting the services offered by cloud computing, more precisely in South Africa in the Western Cape. However, cloud computing affects the way IT services are delivered by traditional HEI IT departments. Thus the objective of this study is to explore the impact of cloud computing on the role of the IT department of HEIs, using a case study. To fulfil this objective, interviews were conducted within the IT department of an HEI, including the IT staff, and it was found that cloud computing affects the role of the IT department by changing the roles and responsibilities of some IT staff, as well as the focus of certain posts in the department. In addition, cloud computing also affects the department's culture. Fortunately, no IT staff have lost their posts. Other results show that training and certification were necessary for the IT to adapt to the changes. Cloud computing adds value to the IT department because it offers a daily 24-hour service as opposed to the traditional IT department.
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Al-Hassany, Ibrahim. "Applying the ENISA IT Risk Assessment for Cloud Computing on Small & Medium Enterprises. A Case Study of Policy/Organizational, Technical and Legal Risks." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Örebro Universitet, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-48922.
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Neves, Hugo David Lisboa. "Inovação no negócio de empresas de software-as-a-service." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/13678.
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Mestrado em Economia e Gestão da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação<br>O advento da economia da internet trouxe grandes transformações na forma como as empresas comercializam e distribuem os seus produtos e serviços. Este fenómeno foi impulsionado por um processo de desintermediação, que alterou a forma como os clientes e fornecedores realizam os seus negócios. Assim, passou a existir uma maior oferta, mais barata, com maior alcance e também acessível.
Considerando as empresas de desenvolvimento de software, o surgimento de uma plataforma como o cloud computing, permitiu a estas empresas a disponibilização das suas tecnologias seguindo um modelo de negócio baseado no Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).
Esta investigação procura estudar empresas de desenvolvimento de software que tenham iniciado um processo de adaptação ao SaaS e, consequentemente, verificar quais foram as principais transformações que tiveram de realizar.
A análise incidiu sobre quatro empresas portuguesas de software. Uma destas empresas é de grande dimensão e as restantes são pequenas e médias. Simultaneamente, duas destas empresas estão atualmente a desenvolver esse processo de adaptação ao SaaS, enquanto outras duas já se encontram estabelecidas no mercado com soluções desse tipo.
Ao estudar a adoção do SaaS por parte destas empresas verificaram-se duas situações. A primeira diz respeito ao tipo de adaptações desenvolvidas, que são diferentes de acordo com a dimensão da empresa; a segunda é que a dimensão não impede uma empresa grande ou pequena de adotar um modelo SaaS. Analisando ainda os fatores que potenciam o crescimento de uma empresa que adote um modelo de SaaS, foram destacados a acessibilidade e a escalabilidade como os mais vantajosos.<br>The advent of the internet economy has brought major changes in the way companies market and distribute their products and services. This phenomenon was boosted by a process of disintermediation, which changed the way customers and suppliers conduct their business. Therefore, there is now a greater supply, cheaper, with longer range and also accessible.
Considering the software development companies, the emergence of a platform like cloud computing, enabled these companies to deliver their technologies following a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business model.
This research aims to study software development companies that have started a process of adaptation to SaaS and, consequently, verify what were the main changes that they had to develop.
The analysis focused on four Portuguese software companies. One of these companies is large and the rest are small and medium. Simultaneously, two of these companies are currently developing this process of adaptation to SaaS, while the other two are already established in the market with such solutions.
By studying the adoption of SaaS by these companies, two situations were verified. The first relates to the type of adaptations developed, which are different according to the size of the company; the second is that the size does not prevent a large or small company of adopting a SaaS model. Analyzing the factors that enhance the growth of a company that adopts a SaaS model, accessibility and scalability were highlighted as the most advantageous.<br>info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Nerur, Radhakrishnan Ganapathy Subramaniam. "Effects of IT Infrastructure services on business process implementation-Focus on small and medium enterprises in emerging markets." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Handels- och IT-högskolan, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-20450.
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An organization’s information technology (IT) infrastructure capability is increasinglyrealized as a critical part to business effectiveness and efficiency. IT infrastructure servicesare particularly important for organizations looking to deploy business processes indeveloping markets. There has also been an interest from many small and medium sizedorganizations whose core business is not in IT to outsource and manage these servicesthrough third party service providers. However there is a need to create an understanding forthese organizations to deploy the right infrastructure services in order to enable easierimplementation or reengineering of the business process. There has been little researchfocusing on the patterns of the IT infrastructure capabilities in the small and medium sizedorganizations in the developing markets.The research aims for a comprehensive coverage by analyzing the requirements in thedeveloping markets and proposing a selection model for the organizations to choose ITservice provider in case they decide to outsource the infrastructure services. The effect of theIT infrastructure services on the business process implementation is presented with anemphasis on the boundary crossing services. Using empirical case study, the research analysesa firm in developing markets and compares it against four strategically similar organizationsfrom different industries. Data collection was primarily qualitative and ably supported bysecondary data.The requirements in developing markets reflect the same as in mature markets. The pricing isseen to play a major role in the selection of the service providers with service security notvery much organization’s priority. The number of boundary crossing services effectivelyenables information sharing and control. These services are the drivers in simplifying thebusiness process implementation. The findings have implications for both business andtechnical managers in regard to planning the IT strategy in the long term and developingappropriate infrastructure according to the process needs.<br>Program: Magisterutbildning i informatik
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Kořínek, František. "Možnosti řešení nasazení podnikového IS standardní formou a SaaS na příkladu MSP." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-72472.
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This thesis deals with the possibilities of enterprise informatics solutions in the SME (small and medium enterprises). This target group is further specified and is taken into account especially the most strongly represented subjects in SMEs - micro-enterprises. The main goal of this work is exploring the practical use of modern trends in information systems such as cloud computing or SaaS in direct comparison with conventional enterprise informatics solutions. In the first part is the space dedicated primarily to theoretical definition of concepts and identification of elaborated topics. Inside acquaintance with individual technical terms there is an example of one particular definition of company enterprise informatics solutions demonstrated with practical examples. The needs and solving the needs of small businesses are then generalized to the common needs of such small companies. Another part is dedicated to the actual analysis of the market and possible solutions of enterprise informatics. According to the specific needs of small businesses several optimal solutions are selected and further more thoroughly investigated and tested. The collected data serve for subsequent comparison of possible enterprise informatics solutions with particular results. The reader himself can assess complexity and price of technologies, especially in the context of conventional solutions and new products. For evaluation of the needs of these small companies primarily MMDIS principles of the methodology are used. In conclusion of the thesis there is the evaluation of detected findings and creating of recommendations for these small businesses.
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Chiou, Jiun-Jie, and 邱俊傑. "Enterprise Server Virtualization and Cloud Computing Benefit Analysis." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/r49kbn.
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碩士<br>中原大學<br>資訊管理研究所<br>99<br>Cloud computing in recent years has been a hot topic of discussion, and virtualization has been close with Cloud Computing. Therelationship between points, cloud computing represents a computing resource can be quantified, so that the server's computing resources can be redistributed through the network, so that users who need access to host entities by virtualization of resources, the use of the virtual machine to physical Host partition, the
definition of virtual machines to quantify the smallest unit of the server after virtualization to remain flexible and can accelerate the speed of deployment of the system, so that the cost of
business investment down the server, users do not need to know where the resources, just only Know how to use it.The case company into server virtualization,to build the Private Cloud infrastructure ,the actual use of Six Sigma DMAIC methodology, in the Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control the five stages of DMAIC tools used to build RD Compiler Server system architecture of the project, how in the five stages, will focus on personal computers by virtual computing resources after the RD Compiler Server environment, the system after the operation and how to solve problems, to improve the operation of private cloud computing
Environment.Finally, by RD Compiler Server in this project to assess the case company into server virtualization. The benefits of virtualization, server virtualization validation operation of the enterprise is efficiently, and cost savings to bring the server infrastructure, and investment returns.
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Tseng, Wei-Hsin, and 曾惟信. "Integrating Enterprise Information Systems on Cloud Computing Environment." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/22294321083771530474.
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碩士<br>世新大學<br>資訊管理學研究所(含碩專班)<br>99<br>In recent years, cloud computing infrastructure with rapid development. All the major IT vendors have vigorously promote and rush into the field of cloud computing. With their technology, to provide better service environment. Open innovation for the entire IT industry. How to combine enterprise information systems and external cloud computing resources, become an important research direction. Most of the current structure of the cloud application services and data to be placed mainly on the external platform, causing import enterprise cloud computing for autonomous control of the transfer and information security concerns. For using cloud computing to solve integration of resources allocation and transfer issues, and security concerns. The elimination of business concerns. This thesis combines cloud computing and service-oriented architecture, and considering the limited financial and network environment for SMEs to develop the operating mechanism of cloud service-oriented architecture. Focusing on the connection on the client framework of the cloud. Companies can effectively use external cloud services resources, and legacy systems integration, strengthen the system architecture, reducing the burden of system development and information security risks, and make the system easier maintenance and improve operational efficiency, and benefit more SMEs, software vendors a more developed to specialization, market size will expand. Future use of each cloud can be provided by the application of industry services, computing power and storage resources to truly enjoy the benefits of cloud services, but also to scholars engaged in research in this area as a reference direction.
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Chang, Chih-Sheng, and 張志昇. "A Risk Management Strategy in Enterprise Cloud Computing." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/80506763664745069211.
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碩士<br>靜宜大學<br>資訊碩士在職專班<br>103<br>What is Cloud Computing? What specific benefits does it give to enterprise operation? What kind of risk will it cause if it is used? Is it safe? Are there any rules of international credibility to follow? These questions do bother people! The research follows clauses made by Cloud Security Alliance CSA（Cloud Security Alliance）“Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing V3.0“ for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing and I use it to analyze Cloud Computing， study it and give some suggestions. I hope to give some references to the enterprises when they estimate Cloud Computing.
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Huang, Hsien-Hui, and 黃獻輝. "A study of cloud computing in enterprise application." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/46145188736216891772.
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碩士<br>淡江大學<br>資訊管理學系碩士班<br>97<br>Cloud computing can be a representative of the current users of the Internet for use. In the Gartner study, cloud computing will be further classified as Cloud Computing Services and Cloud computing technologies. The main Cloud computing technologies is the use of the technology of distributed system architecture to deal with when there are massive corporate demands for data processing, designed by one of the solutions. The main structure of the Cloud computing technologies concepts, is distributed by a file system architecture and the use of MapReduce programming methods, as well as to low-level hardware environment to achieve high fault-tolerant, high extension of the computing environment.
Enterprises in building information infrastructure, often because of changes in the size of enterprise IT infrastructure need to change the size, so the cloud of this study was to propose a technical solution to solve this problem. We are by an open-source "Hadoop" to as our solutions by "Hadoop" structure Distributed File System "Hadoop Distributed File System" to provide information to back up data, monitor performance and computing, there are back mechanism can successfully lower hardware costs but still maintain a good performance. We have actually tested a single high-end enterprise server common hardware architecture, as well as low-level clouds clouds technology technical architecture, technical architecture found in a huge cloud of data processing files are indeed able to provide high quality are the operation of a single server performance In addition, we are the experiment found that the cloud technology enterprises in the build environment needs to pay attention to during the implementation of the Map and Reduce the proportion of order, otherwise the performance may be lower still.
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YEN, Ju-Hsuan, and 嚴如軒. "Cloud computing for enterprise office automation performance investigation." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/92368940332075802305.
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碩士<br>朝陽科技大學<br>資訊管理系碩士班<br>101<br>Cloud Computing has brought revolutionary changes to the information management. The business conditions, the efficient hardware development needs of the Office of Information has to be a bottleneck, the software industry is fast booming demand powerful hardware resources, and how to integrate the public service is already a very important issue .
Currently surrounding the definition of "cloud computing" is quite confusing, actually cloud it represents a service model changes, general end-users through the broadband connection, can remotely access the high-performance computer resources (including infrastructure facilities and software / services) and download the off-site data center. This can greatly reduce the cost of doing business and increase the standard of professional services, general end-user or enterprise does not need to construct large systems or purchase high specification IT hardware equipment that can get the high efficiency of information services.
Business Information Systems software and IT infrastructure, relying on servers to provide cloud-scale services, establish and integration into the vast resources of information technology can reduce carbon emissions, reduce waste of resources, end users only need very little the cost can be obtained at any time, place inexhaustible resources. Furthermore, you can reduce the number of hardware and software to do with the advances in information technology spending, which is the perception of most people the benefits of cloud computing technology and equipment.
This shift can be a more efficient use of computer resources and information technology, and allows individuals and small businesses access to unlimited information resources. However, the contrary, the "cloud" too concentrated resources on the legal level will face trade secrets security issues, and maintain the privacy challenges individuals to understand and do overcome with improved.
Source of cloud computing services, their own company''s IT department, outsourcing vendors may also be known as the cloud technology manufacturers, such as Microsoft, google. Cloud computing services to the moment it seems that the bigger the tendency of small plants cloud services focused on differentiated, customized, small minority of the service; contrast profits may be lower and raising the cost of manufacturers generalization popular service system price, quantity and increase profits.
Cloud information system for information planning and service mode. Enterprise budget, as well as information on the structure of government departments will not like. In other words, the service is no longer limited to a geographical, not necessarily within the enterprise, related with the vendor also provides many services for cross-border and cross-regional enterprises, service will be more efficient , whether the enterprise itself, or a third-party can use a very high quality of service, the service greater flexibility.
On the other hand, the information department of the internal service functionality is more powerful, and more will not be subject to the number of regional restrictions. Enterprise services, may be one of only a dozen small companies, also can be tens of thousands of multinational enterprise. The information department of human, can be applied in higher core information decision-making, improve the company''s competitiveness on the information services more optimized.
There is also a point of difference, because the computing power into the cloud, is likely to system analysis capabilities will become very strong, planning a complete cloud computing architecture and processes. Because of the cloud of information services, the use of process, of course with the average user to use many different PC office automation systems, columns, such as the operation of Windows and web operations habits, like how to make the cloud system can be more friendly, more powerful, easier development is a very important issue.
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HUNG, FU KAI, and 傅凱鴻. "Benefit Analysis for Enterprise Information System in Cloud Computing." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/atq4ra.
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碩士<br>中國科技大學<br>資訊科技應用研究所碩士在職專班<br>102<br>With the development and popularization of computers and internet, from the early evolution of corporate paper documents after today's computerized network systems, network services for enterprises is also increasing, greatly enhance the efficiency of enterprises and reduce the Earth raft of trees cut waste, but in order to cope with a large number of network services, companies must add more physical devices to expand the network resource services, corporate information officers are now mostly use a more traditional way server provides a service to processing erection services required for a variety of enterprise systems, such as the amplification mode architecture needs of enterprises providing services leading to physical devices must also be amplified add, this situation will require enterprises to invest large sums of gold costs to build, but also certainly add more energy consumption, which will cause companies to increase the burden of the cost of the intangible, the traditional one server to provide a service in the efficient use of the machine may be because the machine idle time for equipment utilization rate is not high, causing equipment investment performance and should not come out to play a hundred percent, in addition to information about personnel management servers more and more, it will cause the complexity of management, the building services also need to spend more time and manpower to install the operating systems and software services, due to the current technological advancement, server performance and specifications plus the rise of increasingly powerful cloud technology, this study will examine cloud computing IaaS import server management company will be able to greatly enhance server equipment use efficiency, and reduce energy demand and consumption equipment expansion.
With the concept of the cloud using a server and run multiple virtual hosts needed to simulate building enterprise systems architecture and cloud environments, install Windows server 2012 vmware workstation and use the Hyper-V VM to create a nested structure used to build a private cloud, will calculate all virtual hosts, storage consolidation for the use of cloud computing, and compared with the traditional server build method to analyze energy consumption and hardware efficiency, cost of implementation by the advantages of cloud computing, to verify the feasibility of the cloud of the enterprise information system.
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Lin, Sheng-Wei, and 林聖瑋. "To Virtualization and Cloud Computing Architecture of Building Enterprise DataCenter." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/68317200196883374808.
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碩士<br>中國文化大學<br>資訊管理學系<br>99<br>Cloud computing is only appeared in late 2007 of a new term in Google, IBM and many other large companies have been gradually formed under the derivation, the three main application types of cloud computing: software development services (SaaS), platform service (PaaS) and system construction service (IaaS), the main feature is to provide a "flexible use" and "cost" of innovative information platform environment.
Most of today's enterprise server host is idle resources, information expenses in order to protect the majority of costs, data storage usage to a large multiple of annual growth. The main purpose of this study is based on cloud computing in three main application types of system construction service (IaaS) the use of existing systems to build virtualization and cloud computing (centralization, virtualization and automation) and the entire data center architecture and traditional materials Center and transfer to dynamically adjust the structure of computing, storage and network resources of the new generation of enterprise data centers.