Cloud computing for business

Abstract

Nowadays the implementation of information technologies in organizations is a high resource-consuming process associated firstly with the effect of high costs and uncertainty on organizational performance and, secondly, with storage and maintenance issues. This paper will overview the usage of cloud computing in business as one of the effective ways of dealing with the issues mentioned above by describing the essentials of cloud computing, business processes and their convergence. Essentials of cloud computing covers definition, layers, types, advantages and disadvantages of it, while business processes covers business activities, types of business processes and their management, and finally convergence reveals the offerings of cloud computing for businesses, as well as the integration of cloud infrastructure to business processes and practical outcomes from the usage of cloud computing in real-word companies.