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Decision Making in Cloud Computing: A Method that Combines Costs, Risks and Intangible Benefits

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Knowledge Management in Organizations (KMO 2017)

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There are two directions of research in cloud computing, first examines the economic benefits of the cloud, the second studies the risks that arise in the transfer of information resources in the cloud, but there are very few studies that consider the economic benefits and risks together. The purpose of this paper is to overcome this gap and offer a model for a joint assessment of the benefits and risks arising from the use of cloud computing. Three simple criteria that should help to estimate different sourcing alternatives are proposed: costs, intangible benefits and risks, and simple rules to obtain quantitative values of these criteria are described.

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    I-Hsien Ting

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Zelenkov, Y. (2017). Decision Making in Cloud Computing: A Method that Combines Costs, Risks and Intangible Benefits. In: Uden, L., Lu, W., Ting, IH. (eds) Knowledge Management in Organizations. KMO 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 731. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62698-7_23

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