CLOUD COMPUTING: RETURN ON INVESTMENT - The Portuguese Higher Education Case Study

Jorge Sousa, Pedro Assis, Miguel Leitão

2012

Abstract

This work is about return on investment (ROI) estimation based on a set of scenarios related with Cloud services adoption by Portuguese higher education (HE) institutions. The adopted methodology required the development of a survey and its distribution among institutions. The collected data allowed us to evaluate a set of indicators and metrics in order to design ROI models. With such models it was possible to estimate the cost benefit of Cloud Computing paradigm in the context of Portuguese HE infrastructures and services.

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in Harvard Style

Sousa J., Assis P. and Leitão M. (2012). CLOUD COMPUTING: RETURN ON INVESTMENT - The Portuguese Higher Education Case Study . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-8565-05-1, pages 472-475. DOI: 10.5220/0003925404720475


in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer12,
author={Jorge Sousa and Pedro Assis and Miguel Leitão},
title={CLOUD COMPUTING: RETURN ON INVESTMENT - The Portuguese Higher Education Case Study},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2012},
pages={472-475},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003925404720475},
isbn={978-989-8565-05-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - CLOUD COMPUTING: RETURN ON INVESTMENT - The Portuguese Higher Education Case Study
SN - 978-989-8565-05-1
AU - Sousa J.
AU - Assis P.
AU - Leitão M.
PY - 2012
SP - 472
EP - 475
DO - 10.5220/0003925404720475