The Cloud Adoption Toolkit: Supporting cloud adoption decisions in the enterprise

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 447-465

  Khajeh Hosseini, Ali ^a   Greenwood, David ^a   Smith, James W ^a   Sommerville, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cloud adoption; cloud computing; decision support; infrastructure modeling; organizational change; system deployment

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION DECISION; COMPUTING RESOURCE; COST EFFECTIVE; COST ESTIMATE; COST MODELING; DECISION MAKERS; DECISION SUPPORTS; INFRASTRUCTURE MODELING; IT SYSTEM; ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE; RESOURCE USAGE; RUNNING SYSTEMS; SYSTEM DEPLOYMENT;

CLOUD COMPUTING; COST ACCOUNTING; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INDUSTRY;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84858072265     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: 1097024X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spe.1072     Document Type: Article

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