Why Cloud? - A Review Of Cloud Adoption Determinants In Organizations Aleksandre Asatiani, Aalto University School of Business, Helsinki, Finland.ECIS 2015, Münster, Germany.
Motivation
- Inconclusive results across studies.
- Lack of high-ranking publications on cloud adoption.
- No thorough reviews summarizing empirical findings.
Methods
Literature search
- 7 databases: AISel; EBSCOHost; Google Scholar; Proquest; ScienceDirect; Scopus; Web of Science;
- 6 search terms: “Cloud adoption“; “Cloud computing adoption“; “SaaS adoption“; “IaaS adoption“; “PaaS adoption”; “XaaS adoption“;
- 5 criteria: Published peer-reviewed articles; original empirical studies; adoption in organizations; clearly identified adoption factors;
Search results
- 76 articles after manual review of titles and abstracts.
- 31 articles for the first step of the review.
- 18 articles for the second step of the review.
Step 1
Goal: Identify cloud adoption factors used in previous studies.
Approach: Concept matrices – identify, code, group.
Outcome: 5 adoption categories, 43 adoption factors.
Step 2
Goal: Explore empirical evidence behind adoption factors and adoption decision.
Approach: Systematic review (Jeyaraj et al. 2006).
Outcome: Set of cloud adoption determinants.
Findings
Adoption factors categories
Drivers 11 items
1. Cost advantage2. Relative advantage 3. Accessibility4. Strategic flexibility &
adaptability5. Implementation times
Barriers 14 items
1. Security & privacy2. Cost unpredictability3. Complexity4. Lack of standards in SLAs5. Technological limitations
Organization
7 items
1. Compatibility2. Management support3. Organization size4. Transaction costs5. Previous experience with
cloud
Cloud Providers 5 items
1. Provider reputation2. Provider competences3. Customer support4. Economics of scale5. Location of data
External factors 6 items
1. Legal issues2. Competitive pressure3. Social influence/peer
pressure4. Shared best practices5. Partner pressure
Determinants of adoption
Future research
- Further exploration of underrepresented categories.
- Cloud impact of business processes.
- Studies in broader context.
- Impact of cloud providers.
Questions and comments
Key findings:- Cloud adoption
categories- Set of empirically
supported adoption determinants
- Need for further studies:
- underrepresented categories- broader context- cloud providers
Asatiani, A. (2015). Why Cloud? – A Review of Cloud Adoption Determinants in Organizations. 23rd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Münster, Germany, 2015.
http://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2015_cr/13/
