Point of sales application based on cloud computing adoption for indonesian small medium enterprise: qualitative study

The internet technology and cloud computing development are increasing the opportunity for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to be able adopt information technology at an affordable and does not require an expensive investment. By using cloud computing. SMEs only need to subscribe a service from an application without need to invest in the purchase of software or expensive hardware such as servers and other network devices. Cloud computing is a technology that provides a service for users to be able to choose what services you want to use both Platform As a Service (PaaS) or Software As a Service (SaaS), the advantages of using cloud computing is the customers have the flexibility to choose what services to be used without the need of how much investment is required when trying to build a system for business that they do. This research will build an information system that is required by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) based cloud computing, the research is expected to appear a solution for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in building an information system at an affordable cost but still in accordance with the needs of SME, and still make SMEs competitive to face global competition.