Topics or research topics and questions of interest include (but are not limited) to the following:
What are the roles in data governance and management oversight when deploying cloud-based information systems? What’s different in data governance due to Cloud computing?The cloud computing management decision process and considerationsComparisons between in-sourced capital expenditure on systems and cloud-computing expense-based models. When cloud solutions are adopted, have financial predictions been realized?What are the costs and benefits of Cloud Computing, as projected versus as realized? Have expectations been realized? How do we measure and assess?What are the true costs (total cost of ownership/outsourcing) of utilizing an integrated cloud-based enterprise solution and how are these costs accounted for in organizations?Cloud Computing providing Enterprise services, the shift from in-house to cloud-based ERPBlockchain-based financial technology (FinTech) and trust services supported in the cloudCloud computing related to the Internet of Things (IoT)Methods for implementing (and testing) internal controls in cloud client and in cloud providerIT governance, audit and assurance of the cloud computing servicesWhat is the process by which cloud-based systems, and particularly Integrated Enterprise Systems (ES) are being adopted by organizations? What changes do organizations go through to utilize cloud computing?What resulting changes occur after the cloud-computing system is adopted? Comparisons of anticipated and unanticipated consequences?In what way does the Cloud computing migration influence the skills needed by cloud client management, IS staff, audit staff? What are the impacts on university or college curriculum?How should organizations that use cloud computing services prepare themselves when the cloud provider services are rendered unavailable through some type of outage, whether it be malicious or otherwise?