A Study Literature of Critical Success Factors of Cloud Computing in Organizations

The aim of this study is to identify the critical success factors that impact the organization to use cloud computing in their business processes. The author conduct a literature review study to identify the factors by collecting thirty papers from reputable database journal such as emerald, science direct, IEEE and Google Scholar. The author was using "cloud computing" as a keyword. After the author reviewed and analyzed the abstract of each paper, the author selected nineteen papers that related to this topic. The author found that cost reducing, flexible, redundancy and reliability, scalability, collaboration, efficiency, virtually and availability as critical success factors as the impact of the use of cloud computing for organizations. Further research can be conducted to validate this finding by developing an instrument and take a survey of organizations. (C) 2015 Published by Elsevier B.V.