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Table 1 Conceptual and empirical investigations for the selection of appropriate cloud services
From: Current cloud challenges in Germany: the perspective of cloud service providers
Research Type/Stakeholder Focus | Phases | Reference |
|---|---|---|
Empirical/Customer | Five factors influencing the cloud usage by SMEs – Ease of use & convenience; Security & privacy; Cost reduction; Sharing & collaboration; Reliability | Gupta et al. [55] |
Empirical/Customer | Five categories – Information security; Performance & usability; Costs; Support & cooperation; Transparency & organization of the provider | Hetzenecker et al. [43] |
Conceptual/Customer | Proposal of a multi-attribute group decision-making method for CSP selection | Liu et al. [45] |
Conceptual/Customer | Five factors – Relative advantage, Top management support, Firm size, Competitive pressure, Trading partner pressure | Low et al. [52] |
Conceptual/Customer | Three-tier classification framework with six target dimensions – Flexibility, Cost, Performance, IT security & compliance, Reliability & trustworthiness, Service & cloud management | Repschläger et al. [42] |
Conceptual/Customer | Multi-criteria decision-making methods for CSP selection – Performance-based model, Finance-based model, Security-based model | Supriya et al. [44] |
Conceptual/Customer | Proposal of a holistic model for CSP selection – FAGI (Function, Auditability, Governability and Interoperability) | Tang and Liu [34] |
Conceptual/Customer | 13 success factors –, e.g., Performance, Security, Compliance, Legal aspects, Flexibility | Walther et al. [50] |