Value in the cloud: A study of the factors affecting value appropriation by enterprises consuming cloud services
Reddan, Barry
Reddan, Barry
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https://hdl.handle.net/10379/18497
https://doi.org/10.13025/29291
https://doi.org/10.13025/29291
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2025-01-22
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master thesis
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Enterprise consumption of cloud based services has mushroomed in recent years, with an estimated 73% or enterprises having at least a portion of their computing infrastructure hosted in the cloud. Additionally, Traditional software vendors are launching hosted alternatives to traditional perpetual on premises licencing models, while Cloud Native Vendors with cloud only offerings have surfaced in the market and in many instances have overtaken their more traditional competitors as they build, test, iterate and release and product in/to the cloud consistently, hosting their platforms for the most part on hyper scalars such as AWS (Amazon Web Services) , Microsoft Azure and GCP (Google Cloud Platform). This current picture is in stark contrast to the landscape which existed less than fifteen years ago, where cloud as a concept was very much a space where earlier adopters played, learned and iterated. However cloud is now very much a prime time offering and it provides enterprises with cost effective, scalable, customisable, stable solutions. That said, while cloud offerings have matured significantly during the intervening period, not all enterprises are at the point where they consume cloud based platforms/services end to end across their entire Infrastructure, Network, Database, Platform and Application stack. For that reason this dissertation looks to focus on the demand side of the cloud based equation to ascertain the factors which affect the consumption/adoption of cloud based services and additionally to determine what value is captured/appropriated by enterprises who consume. Cloud based services. The study will focus on reviewing the foundational literature focused on both Value Creation and Cloud and the factors enterprises associate with adoption/consumption. A filed based study will be undertaken to capture ‘real world’ data which can then be analysed and compared against the literature The findings provide various insights highlighting some discrepancies between the literature and the real world while also calling out some focus areas for future research in this space.
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University of Galway
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International