Cloud sourcing and cloud computing have become de-facto standards in recent years for a range of applications. Cloud solutions are attractive for a number of reasons including ease of use, pricing, availability, scalability, and reliability. In particular, small and medium enterprises (SMEs)...

Cloud-Service-Provider werben gerne damit, dass Software-as-a-Service besonders auch für kleines oder mittleres Unternehmen (KMU) attraktiv sei. Diese könnten durch die Benutzung von Cloud-Services Kosten einsparen und ihre IT-Landschaft flexibler gestalten. Allerdings ist noch nicht...

The newly emerging market for data is insufficiently researched up to now. The survey presented in this work - which is the third iteration of a a series of studies that started in 2012 - intends to provide a deeper understanding of this emerging type of market. Research questions concerning the...