An exploratory study for investigating the critical success factors for cloud migration in the Saudi Arabian higher education context

Alharthi, Abdulrahman; Alassafi, Madini O.; Walters, Robert John; Wills, Gary

doi:10.1016/j.tele.2016.10.008

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“…In Saudi Arabia, the IT market is considered as the largest market in the Gulf region [3]. The Saudi government has allocated a huge fund to improve the educational environment with the best technological facilities.…”

Section: A Education System Based On Cloud Computingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Saudi government has allocated a huge fund to improve the educational environment with the best technological facilities. However, there are new start-up universities in Saudi Arabia that lack e-learning tools compared to the older universities in SA [3]. Saudi universities still slowly seek to adopt CC in the higher education environment for distance learning and e-learning, while CC has been widely used in universities in different countries to deliver higher quality services to higher education [29].…”

Section: A Education System Based On Cloud Computingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, the migration process still imposes a different range of challenges. Alharthi et al (2017) reported these issues, which are legal policies, security, and implementation. The researchers presented a framework for successful migration to the cloud environment in Saudi universities and identified a set of critical success factors concerned with the migration process.…”

Section: B State Of the Artmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The proposed framework can support the decision-making process about whether to migrate or not and can provide valuable data on cloud computing projects. Although the proposed framework was the first step to investigate the factors enabling the migration process, it had not been implemented in reality [3].…”

Section: B State Of the Artmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To support e-learning, these educational institutions must have an adequate IT infrastructure and massive investment, which is difficult to acquire in times of profound recession. In fact, some universities already face difficulties in providing different IT services for their academics and students [3].…”

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Cloud Computing: Empirical Studies in Higher Education A Literature Review

Elgelany¹,

Gaoud²

2017

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Abstract-The advent of cloud computing (CC) in recent years has attracted substantial interest from various institutions, especially higher education institutions, which wish to consider the advantages of its features. Many universities have migrated from traditional forms of teaching to electronic learning services, and they rely upon information and communication technology services. The usage of CC in educational environments provides many benefits, such as low-cost services for academics and students. The expanded use of CC comes with significant adoption challenges. Understanding the position of higher education institutions with respect to CC adoption is an essential research area. This paper investigated the current state of CC adoption in the higher education sector in order to enrich the research in this area of interest. Existing limitations and knowledge gaps in current empirical studies are identified. Moreover, suggested areas for further researches will be highlighted for the benefit of other researchers who are interesting in this topic. These researches encourage institutions of education especially in higher education to adopted cloud computing technology.

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Section: A Education System Based On Cloud Computingmentioning

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Section: B State Of the Artmentioning

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Critical factors affecting the decision to adopt cloud computing in Saudi health care organizations

Ayadi

2022

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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This research aims to identify factors that affect cloud computing (CC) adoption decisions among Saudi health care organizations. More precisely, a research model has been developed and tested to present factors that can facilitate or inhibit the decision to adopt CC in such organizations. In addition to its theoretical contributions, this model would help to formulate some recommendations that can aid IT/IS managers in Saudi health care organizations in making the right decisions when adopting cloud solutions. These managerial contributions are very interesting since the health care sector is very advanced and the number of health care organizations searching for new and effective IT solutions is growing quickly in Saudi Arabia. A quantitative type of research was conducted using a self-administered survey methodology. Data collected from 123 Saudi health care organizations are used to test the research hypotheses. They are analyzed by using XLStat by structural equation modeling. The findings revealed that top managers' support and adequate resources, competitive pressure, and security and compatibility, representing organizational, environmental and technology factors, respectively, are perceived as significant factors for adopting a CC system. Considering the direct and indirect effects of the main variables on CC decisions regarding adoption, we propose some recommendations that would benefit decision-makers and scholars in this area.

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