Investigating Cloud ERP Challenges in Public Universities in the Middle East “Field Study”

Hussain Ahmad Awad; Fadi Mohammed Batta

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Investigating Cloud ERP Challenges in Public Universities in the Middle East “Field Study”

Hussain Ahmad Awad, Fadi Mohammed Batta

Published in Internet of Things and Cloud Computing (Volume 2, Issue 3)

Received: 27 September 2014 Accepted: 15 October 2014 Published: 30 October 2014

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Abstract

ERP is a concept that has been around for some time, and such as any other field; it is inevitable for ERP to find new ways to cope with the huge changes in Information Systems world. One of the new ideas was to facilitate ERP through cloud computing systems; in order to fulfil the staggering raise in service requests from ERP customers due to infrastructure and technology advancement. Google, SAP, INFOR and other ERP service providers has already adopted the idea of providing ERP services through the cloud, in order to attract more business, in particular the more expanding and demanding segment of small and medium enterprises (SME’s). We, on the other hand would like to study the challenges and opportunities of cloud ERP in educational enterprises; public universities in specific. Hussain (7) has mentioned these challenges; we will expand that by validating the challenges alongside providing an ordered view of them, a survey amongst wide sample of public universities in the Middle East will investigate further challenges that could ascend along application of Cloud ERP, and classify them in orderly fashion. Which eventually we think it will help public universities to further more understand how to benefit from cloud ERP.

Published in	Internet of Things and Cloud Computing (Volume 2, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.iotcc.20140203.11
Page(s)	12-16
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Cloud ERP Services, Challenges of ERP, Cloud in Public Universities, Public Schools (Universities) and ERP Systems

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Hussain Ahmad Awad, Fadi Mohammed Batta. Investigating Cloud ERP Challenges in Public Universities in the Middle East “Field Study”. Internet Things Cloud Comput. 2014;2(3):12-16. doi: 10.11648/j.iotcc.20140203.11

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Hussain Ahmad Awad

MIS department, Faculty of Business - Khulais, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, KSA
Fadi Mohammed Batta

MIS department, Faculty of Business - Khulais, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, KSA

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Hussain Ahmad Awad, Fadi Mohammed Batta. Investigating Cloud ERP Challenges in Public Universities in the Middle East “Field Study”. Internet Things Cloud Comput. 2014;2(3):12-16. doi: 10.11648/j.iotcc.20140203.11

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