Category: CSE Project Reports

Business requirements for cloud computing are endless and when the business development managers are asked regarding the level of requirements, one of the managers replied that “We use the cloud computing for creating a wide range of products and services and it is really helpful in implementing the cloud services”. From statement it is clear that, organizations are adopting the cloud services to enhance their business values in terms of improving the range of products and services. In general they approach the cloud service providers and tell all the requirements against their business scope and thus they create the required facilities on the cloud and they simply use them to enhance their business value.

One of the business development managers replied to the same question like “We use cloud services for outsourcing our IT projects and also find new outsourcing partners” and from this opinion it is clear that, most of the organizations could find new business partners and outsource their projects and thus improve their business value using these services provided by the cloud computing.

With the perfect implementation of cloud services, all the organizations can find a simple and light weight platform to share their views and thoughts regarding the business scope and thus cloud computing is really beneficial in this context.  When the same question is asked to one of the business managers, he replied like “We can develop more self made IT services without depending on the third party IT service providers for few modules of our applications being developed with the integrated services provided by the cloud computing”.

From his opinion it can be concluded that, if the cloud services are properly utilized then, more customized applications and web services can be created by the organizations and thus a lot of cost and time are saved in terms of deploying the application requirements on the third party. One of the business development managers replied to the same question like “We are innovating and doing lot of research and development at our organization with the help of cloud services provided”.

It can be observed from this statement that, a lot of research development work across the organizations can be initiated with the perfect implementation of cloud computing services and thus the overall business value of any organization is improved a lot in this context. One of the business development managers replied to the same question like “We could able to implement the service oriented architecture (SOA) and enjoying the benefits of it with the help of cloud computing services”.

From this statement it is clear that, all new technologies and latest trends in business can be improved with the help of cloud utilization and even any recent updates to the technology like SOA can also be implemented across the current applications being run on the organizational aspects and thus cloud service provide ample freedom to learn and implement new technologies for the organizations. 

When the business development managers are asked the question like, how do you rate the cloud services implemented across your organization, one of the managers replied that “We have a good service provider for the cloud computing services and there no major issues with them”.

From this statement it is clear that the level of implementations across the cloud computing services purely depends on the service providers and in general the service provider should be trusted against the their quality of services being provided to the customers. One of the business development managers replied to the same question like “Our organization is maintaining all the key information of all the departments and products across our applications and we trust out service providers in this context and they are good as of now”.

From his opinion it is very clear that, the level of trust between the service provider and the vendor should be in the top standards such that the cloud services implemented across any organization would be on the top standards. When the same question is asked to one of the managers, he replied that “We are happy with the cloud services and they are few issues related to security and reliability initially and I think most of them are solved now”. 

It can be observed from this statement that, if the required level of reliability and security are not provided by the service providers of cloud computing, it would finally lead to lot of issues across the organization and the key among them are the security issues. One of the business development managers replied to the same question like, “Security is the main concern we use to rate the service provided against the cloud providers” and from this statement it indicates that, if security is not at the required levels, the organizations are not willing to take risks by adopting the cloud services irrespective of the list of advantages available with cloud computing. 

One of the managers responded to this question like “I can’t rate the services implemented across our organization, as there are common issues faced and reviewed every business meetings and we are looking for a better alternative.” From this statement it is clear the overall business value and integrity is affected a lot due to the security issues and most of the organizations are losing the trust on the service providers for cloud computing if they can’t ensure the data security for the organizations. 

In this section, the actual impact of cloud computing on overall business value of the organization is analyzed from the key findings based on the opinion of the business development managers and they are as follows. When the managers were asked the question like, how does the cloud computing affect the business value, one of the managers replied like “Always the business value is enhanced with the proper implementation cloud services and more customers can be gained with this”.

From this statement it is clear that if the cloud computing services are implemented on a good scale and with good quality, the overall business value is increased and even the organizations can gain more customers and users. One of the business development managers replied that “Cloud computing services offer us a great opportunity to save time and money in many aspects and we simply login to internet to use the required services”.

From this opinion it is clear that if the organizations need to maintain any information related to them, they prefer cloud computing and consider that it is the optimal way of providing the information to the customers both in the terms of money and time. One of the business development managers replied to the same question like “With the implementation of cloud computing, lot of infrastructure and hardware can be saved, where our service providers will look after that” and from this statement it is very clear that always the business development managers are intended to save the time and money against the business requirements.

As per his opinion it can be understood that lot of hardware and infrastructure requirements can be saved with the cloud computing as the actual service provider will take care of all these things. One of the business managers replied to the same question like “All our applications are customized with the cloud services and we need not employ new manpower for the customization process”.

This statement can be understood in the way that, if the cloud services are properly utilized, then the customization of the existing applications can be done very easily without any external efforts towards this implementation. When the same question is asked to one of the business development managers, he replied that “Our business has taken new forms with the mobilization facility provided by the cloud computing services” and from his opinion it is clear, if any organization can employ the cloud services, their information and services can be deployed on a remote location or a remote device very easily and thus their overall business value is enhanced in this way. 

Case study chosen

One of the best method to gather the required information or data is the case study approach diagonally towards the qualitative research methodology by the time only when the sample size is less. The solution which is required for the research problem could be recognized in the great approach which is towards the case study and the individuals who are included with in the process of the research and are investigated by the main aim to gather the direct data and the questions asked by those individuals are been answered in an efficient manner to gather the information which is required from them.

There are several number of benefits from this specific case study approach and the most significant one among these benefits is that the source of the data which is collected is direct as well as the information collected will be more and more perfect and trustworthy while compared with the other resources. In order to gather the information which is required to solve the research problem is the simple or general case study which could be used as the best approach and the result or clarification of the problem is been connected with the case study.

In order to conduct a research work on the particular topic the individual who acts as a research should be capable of having the required knowledge on the case studies  of the research as well these case studies should be in a way that they should effort little hard work and it should be capable of solving the problems with in the process of research then only this specific study could be referred as the best source for the primary information which is related to the qualitative research methodology.

Generally the case studies could be of different types such as the individual, organization, the in particular situations which are related to collect the data by approaching the equivalent case could be referred as the best within the quality because there is a direct contact with the case and the answer to the problem which happened with in the process of research could be identified through the actual observations as well as the significant reasons towards the case studies considered. 

Case study approach is chosen in this project and following companies are considered as the case study and the required primary information required to proceed with this research is gathered from interviewing the key respondents involved in the case studies. 

The key information for this research is gathered from these companies and the questionnaire prepared is escalated to these companies to gather the required primary source of information and the information gathered is a analyzed further. All these companies are implementing the cloud computing services and have some issues with the data security and I will gather their solutions in place and future recommendations to make the data security more affective across the cloud computing operations. 

Research design: Case study approach

The research design is the process is which the general research questions are been recognized and then after they are transformed in to the testing process as well as there are several types of the research designs which could be established depending on the research problem which is taken in to consideration. Generally there are two significant research design types such as the fixed research design as well as the flexible research design.  Before fixing he actual data collection method the fixed research design method is been set. Generally this fixed research design is the theory based method, as a result it not such easy to calculate the mathematical variables as well as the aspects that are resulted in future.

The data which is been collected is been fixed as well as the actual methods which are used in the data collection are been established with in this kind of research design. The certain level of the sufficient choice is been available within the process of the collection of the data on the flexible research design method as well as the design of the research and the actual search might differ with in this kind of research.

The variable which is recognized with in this flexible research process might differ with the actual statement, as a result there is a necessity of the flexibility while selecting the research variables and generally the investigational result depends on the approach which is been established diagonally towards these kind of the flexible research design. Generally the research design is been distinguished in to experimental as well as the non- experimental types and the type which is necessary to select it is based on the type of the research with in the process.

The experimental research design is the best process for the type of projects that include the number of statistical analysis as well as the research sample size is more, where as the sample size for the non- experimental research design is less as well as the common and general observations as well as the individual behavior is been used to obtain the inputs. For the purpose of quantitative research methodology the experimental research design is one of the best methods, where as the non experimental research design model is the best method for qualitative research methodology.

The general case study is one of the best example for the non- experimental research design in which the data needed is been collected by making use of the single source as well as the needed conclusions are completed by means of the general observations and the vision and outlook of the individual is been included with in the case study.

Qualitative research methodology is chosen in this context as the main aim of this research is to evaluate the role of cloud computing for small software organizations and understand their perspective in choosing the cloud technologies against the data security of them.

In general there are lots of issues with the cloud computing data security and most of the clients have doubts regarding their data security and most of the clients prefer a third party service providers to ensure their data security and this approach works fine will large organizations and most of the small organizations may not effort a third party for data security across the cloud computing. The main aim of this research is to gather the required information from small companies regarding their implementation plan towards cloud computing.

As the primary source of information is gathered from the respondents involved in this research and analyze their behavior towards choosing the cloud computing, qualitative analysis of the data is required for this research and thus qualitative research methodology is chosen and case study approach is chosen to gather the primary source of information and the actual companies chosen as the case study are given in the case study section of this chapter.

Introduction

The comprehensive analysis based on the research methodology is been accepted with in this project and it is described in detail in this thesis. The authentic methodology which is been taken in to consideration from the qualitative as well as the quantitative methods with in this research process and even the specific factors which lead to select this methodology is been explained in detail with in this research.

The research oriented research approach which is been considered for the primary source of the data as well as the secondary source of the data is been described in detail. The interviews which are semi organized are been conducted in order to gather the primary source of the information as well as this information is been utilized to develop the search regarding the research and the equivalent research analysis conducted to certify the value of the research which is been conducted to recognize the actual result from the literature.

Research methodology chosen

The research methodology is the process in which the actual methodology is been considered to progress the research as well as the tools that are been used in order to collect the information that are necessary to support the research. Generally there are two kinds of the research methodologies which are been used in order to rectify the problems happened within the research such as Qualitative research methodology as well as the Quantitative research methodology. The research methodology types which are considered are based on the different aspects such as the type of problems which are taken in to consideration within the research process as well as the appropriate and significant data which is to be collected and even the total analysis of the research methodology types are illustrated in detail. 

Qualitative research methodology

The qualitative research methodology is totally based on the human  behavior or actions as the major causes which are after this actions are been included with in this process. The problems which are taken in to consideration with in the process of the research towards the human behavior or actions are specified with in this qualitative research methodology as well as these kind of methodology is been utilized towards the educational discipline, social studies as well as the common problems which are happened within the market. The process of decision making will include several steps as well as the critical aspects such as the way of reacting towards the problems which have taken pace with in the research.

For the purpose of the qualitative research methodology it is better to choose the small volume rather than choosing the huge volume which is been used to collect the data from the individuals who are included with in the process of research. The critical non- numerical data excluding the main issues such as graphs, charts as well as the statistical methods are taken in to consideration in order to finish the research analysis of the data which is base on the genuine emotional observations as well as the conclusions than that of the basic conclusions.

Quantitative research methodology

Generally the quantitative research methodology is based on the models which are related to the mathematical as well as the theories based on the social sciences. This quantitative research methodology will even include the statistical analysis as well as the experimental examination of the properties and the internal relationship among the quantitative aspects. 

The significant aspects which will make the quantitative research methodology are the measurement as well as the evaluation by the regular values as well as the resulting observations are been used within the quantitative research methodology. By making use of these research methodology the questions such as what, why and where are been answered and in this quantitative research methodology as the major research methodology will include the major social sciences such as political science, economics, anthropology as well as the psychology.

Within this quantitative research methodology the specific case study is been utilized as the information resource as well as the number of general conclusions and even the hypothesis are been resulted by making use of the quantitative research methodology.

As the list of hypothesis are been made within the research process, then this quantitative research methodology could be utilized in order to confirm the true hypothesis from the list which is taken in to consideration in order to rectify the problem happened within the research. The numerical measurements such as graphs, charts as well as the statistical analysis are been used basically within the quantitative research methodology and this kind of methodology could be taken from the huge problem in which the huge or large sample size is needed as well as the data which is been collected from this type of sample should be analyzed in the way of experimental examination as well as the equivalent results are been calculated by means of the empirical analysis. For example the survey which is conducted which may result in completion of the total research process then the best methodology which could be utilized within this level is the quantitative research methodology.