TY - GEN
T1 - Cloud computing financial & cost analysis; A case study of Saudi government agencies
AU - Mreea, Mohammed
AU - Munasinghe, Kumudu
AU - Sharma, Dharmendra
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - Cloud computing is an innovation in world technology. It is used to provide organization services as a utility service through internet and innovative uptake of cloud for improved effectiveness and efficiency. There is an absence of academic studies about the financial feasibility and implementation cost to uptake of cloud by government agencies. This paper seeks to identify the cloud computing financial indicators and implementation cost variables which are relevant to public organizations. The proposed model consists of Saudi case study findings based on analysis of evidence from Saudi government organization. Random samples from different categories in professionalism in Saudi Arabia participated in the questionnaire to extract and confirm financial indicators and implementation cost variables. The results indicate a return on investment (ROI) and total cost ownership (TCO) are the main financial indicators to study cloud adoption. Also, data centre variable and fixed cost parameters play the main role to calculate cloud implementation cost.
AB - Cloud computing is an innovation in world technology. It is used to provide organization services as a utility service through internet and innovative uptake of cloud for improved effectiveness and efficiency. There is an absence of academic studies about the financial feasibility and implementation cost to uptake of cloud by government agencies. This paper seeks to identify the cloud computing financial indicators and implementation cost variables which are relevant to public organizations. The proposed model consists of Saudi case study findings based on analysis of evidence from Saudi government organization. Random samples from different categories in professionalism in Saudi Arabia participated in the questionnaire to extract and confirm financial indicators and implementation cost variables. The results indicate a return on investment (ROI) and total cost ownership (TCO) are the main financial indicators to study cloud adoption. Also, data centre variable and fixed cost parameters play the main role to calculate cloud implementation cost.
KW - Cloud computing
KW - Data centre fixed cost (DCFC)
KW - Data centre variable cost (DCVC)
KW - Return on investment (ROI)
KW - Total cost ownership (TCO)
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U2 - 10.5220/0006300804590466
DO - 10.5220/0006300804590466
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85024364428
SN - 9789897582431
T3 - CLOSER 2017 - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science
SP - 459
EP - 466
BT - CLOSER 2017 - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science
A2 - Ferguson, Donald
A2 - Munoz, Victor Mendez
A2 - Cardoso, Jorge
A2 - Cardoso, Jorge
A2 - Helfert, Markus
A2 - Pahl, Claus
PB - Scitepress
T2 - 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science
Y2 - 24 April 2017 through 26 April 2017
ER -