Study on Impact of Cloud Adoption in Small and Medium Enterprises in Pune

Abstract

The preferred alternative to the conventional in-house IT setup is cloud technology, which has newlinethe benefits of scalability, rapid installation, flexibility, elasticity, and a make monthly newlinepayments option. Cloud technology offers many advantages for companies who cannot afford newlinehuge investments in their IT budget. Many research studies have revealed that companies using newlinecomputer technologies for their operations have shown significant improvement in their newlinebusiness results. Cloud first being IT strategy for many of the organizations, Cloud services newlineAlready proven their efficacy in the COVID- 19 lockdown situation. Cloud technology as a newlinenext-generation platform is the perfect IT solution for SMEs. newlineGlobally, the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are seen social and economic newlineenhancement of a nation. SMEs are playing significant role in employment generation, newlinedeveloping ecosystem for startups. SMEs are the important pillar of countries gross domestic newlineproduct. SMEs have many resource constraints and they do not have such a huge budget to newlineinvest in state of art IT setups. Also, they do not have the expertise to implement and use these newlineproducts and services. Cloud adoption helps for catering various need of IT platform and newlineapplications required to support business but the ground reality might be different If you do not newlineuse technology properly then it became a liability to companies and adversely impacts the newlineorganization s performance. It is crucial to identify influencing factors in cloud adoption newlineprocess and their impact over SME outcome. newlineResearchers have chosen Pune as second largest IT hub in India to review actual penetration of newlinecloud usages. We have collected 486 responses from cloud experienced user community across newlineIT SMEs to access their pattern of usages for descriptive analysis method. Researcher has newlinedeveloped an integrated TOE framework from earlier research to determine factors that newlineinfluencing cloud adoption for SMEs and their correlation to SMEs business. This research newlinepresents the empirical framework use