Selecting appropriate cloud solution for managing big data projects using hybrid AHP-entropy based assessment

Abstract

Today technology that learns from data to forecast future behavior of individuals, organizations, government and country as a whole, is playing a crucial role in the advancement of human race. In fact, the strategic advantage most of the companies today strive for are use of new available technologies like cloud computing and big data. However, today's dynamic business environment poses severe challenges in front of companies as to how to make use of the power of big data with the technical flexibility that cloud computing provides? Therefore, evaluating, ranking and selecting the most appropriate cloud solution to manage big data project is a complex concern which requires multi criteria decision environment. In this paper we propose a hybrid entropy method combined with Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) to select appropriate cloud solution to manage big data projects in group decision making environment. In order to collate individual opinions of decision makers for rating the importance of various criteria and alternatives, we employed usability analysis using the proposed hybrid AHP-Entropy method.