title: Design and Implementation of a Cloud Computing Adoption Decision Tool: Generating a Cloud Road.
abstract: Migrating to cloud computing is one of the current enterprise challenges. This technology provides a new paradigm based on "on-demand payment" for information and communication technologies. In this sense, the small and medium enterprise is supposed to be the most interested, since initial investments are avoided and the technology allows gradual implementation. However, even if the characteristics and capacities have been widely discussed, entry into the cloud is still lacking in terms of practical, real frameworks. This paper aims at filling this gap, presenting a real tool already implemented and tested, which can be used as a cloud computing adoption decision tool. This tool uses diagnosis based on specific questions to gather the required information and subsequently provide the user with valuable information to deploy the business within the cloud, specifically in the form of Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions. This information allows the decision makers to generate their particular Cloud Road. A pilot study has been carried out with enterprises at a local level with a two-fold objective: to ascertain the degree of knowledge on cloud computing and to identify the most interesting business areas and their related tools for this technology. As expected, the results show high interest and low knowledge on this subject and the tool presented aims to readdress this mismatch, insofar as possible.
authors.affiliation: Foresight, Technology and Management (FTM) Group, Industrial Organization and Management Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering in Bilbao (ETSI Bilbao), University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Basque Country, Spain.
authors.forename: Iñaki
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bildosola
authors.affiliation: Foresight, Technology and Management (FTM) Group, Industrial Organization and Management Engineering Department, University College of Engineering of Vitoria-Gasteiz, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Basque Country, Spain.
authors.forename: Rosa
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Río-Belver
authors.affiliation: Foresight, Technology and Management (FTM) Group, Industrial Organization and Management Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering in Bilbao (ETSI Bilbao), University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Basque Country, Spain.
authors.forename: Ernesto
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Cilleruelo
authors.affiliation: Foresight, Technology and Management (FTM) Group, Industrial Organization and Management Engineering Department, Escuela Universitaria de Estudios Empresariales de Bilbao, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Basque Country, Spain.
authors.forename: Gaizka
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Garechana
mesh_terms: D000067917:Cloud Computing; D003657:Decision Making; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D010865:Pilot Projects