AN ANALYSIS OF ADOPTION FACTORS AND ATTITUDES BASED ON CLOUD-BASED ERP SYSTEMS

Abstract

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) technologies have long piqued the curiosity of scholars from distinct academic fields. One of the most talked-about technologies in both the corporate and academic worlds is the cloud computing model, which has just recently arrived. The ERP system is one area that has been greatly affected by the changing ways software is delivered and made available in the cloud. There has been little investigation into cloud-based ERP systems, and even less into the views of IT officers regarding these software instruments, notwithstanding the pervasiveness of software-as-a-service (SaaS) models. After reviewing the literature and applicable ideas, we developed a questionnaire that was distributed to IT executives working for Norwegian organizations. Responses to the survey reflected participants` thoughts on the pros and cons of cloud ERP. Overall, the findings corroborate the information found in the papers. Several cases came out, naturally. That respondents plainly weren`t concerned about data security-in fact, they ranked it as their least important worry-is noteworthy. They also did not find the promise of a lower total cost of ownership to be an appealing benefit, which goes against what has been said widely in the literature. From what we can discern, the most significant drawbacks of these cloud technologies were vendor dependence and lock-in, whereas the most advantageous aspect was system accessibility. The study concludes with descriptive and inferential statistical analyses, as well as a regression analysis to determine the relative importance of the benefits and advantages in shaping the opinions of our respondents.