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Research Paper | Computer Science & Engineering | Malaysia | Volume 2 Issue 12, December 2013

Cloud Computing and E-Commerce in Small and Medium Enterprises (SME's): The Benefits, Challenges

Samer Jamal Abdulkader | Abdallah Mohammad Abualkishik ^[2]

Abstract: Nowadays the term of cloud computing is become widespread. Cloud computing can solve many problems that faced by Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in term of cost-effectiveness, security-effectiveness, availability and IT-resources (hardware, software and services). E-commerce in Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is need to serve the customers a good services to satisfy their customers and give them good profits. These enterprises faced many issues and challenges in their business like lake of resources, security and high implementation cost and so on. This paper illustrate the literature review of the benefits can be serve by cloud computing and the issues and challenges that E-commerce Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) faced, and how cloud computing can solve these issues. This paper also presents the methodology that will be used to gather data to see how far the cloud computing has influenced the E-commerce small and medium enterprises in Jordan.

Keywords: Cloud computing, E-commerce, SME

Edition: Volume 2 Issue 12, December 2013,

Pages: 285 - 288