The Organizational Facilitators and Barriers to the adoption of Cloud

Abstract: Given the technological innovations and technological changes inside and outside of companies, the research carried out in this Master thesis focuses on one of the most important of these technological innovations, the cloud. The cloud and the services offered by it may potentially revolutionize IT resources and IT infrastructure within companies that in part can be outsourced or converted, obtaining an economic advantage over their own management costs. Research has focused on the barriers that prevent the adoption of cloud services within enterprises and how to facilitate their adoption. In order to do this and understand the problems and ways to facilitate adoption, a literature review and interviews with companies in the cloud sector, as well as those wishing to adopt this technology, were conducted. This includes private and public sector companies in order to analyze the differences between them. The research focuses on the Gothenburg area. The results of the research, which focus on these organizational and external barriers and facilitators, have been useful in providing companies, both providers and consumers, with ways to recognise what the issues may be and what they need to do to help and simplify the adoption of this technology.