TY - JOUR A1 - Holloway, Melanie A1 - Rizk, Amr A1 - Steinmetz, Ralf T1 - Perspectives on cloud adoption T2 - EFL quarterly : an E-Finance Lab publication N2 - IN COMPARISON TO TRADITIONAL IT PARADIGMS, CLOUD COMPUTING ENABLES TO OBTAIN DESIRED COMPUTING RESOURCES ON-DEMAND WITHOUT REQUIRING LARGE, UPFRONT INVESTMENTS AND TO DYNAMICALLY ADAPT AND SCALE THESE RESOURCES TO VARYING BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS. HOWEVER, CLOUD COMPUTING IS NOT A PANACEA. THIS DRIVES THE NEED TO EXAMINE THE SPECIFIC REASONS AND REQUIREMENTS FOR CLOUD ADOPTION IN PRACTICE. HERE, WE FOLLOW AN ANALYTICAL APPROACH TO EXAMINE CLOUD ADOPTION BY CONDUCTING A LITERATURE SURVEY AND AN EMPIRICAL STUDY. Y1 - 2017 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/58012 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-580123 SN - 1866-1238 VL - 2017 IS - 3 SP - 4 EP - 5 PB - E-Finance Lab e.V. CY - Frankfurt am Main ER -