E-Business and Cloud Computing: A New Practice or a Trend

Abstract

This paper presents literature review that is currently conducted to look into e-Business development with the emergence of cloud computing concept. The discussions in this paper includes the e-Business development, opportunities and challenges, and how the cloud computing is perceived in the e-Business context. This paper also presents the methodology that will be used to gather data to see how far the cloud computing has influenced e-Business for SMEs in Malaysia. Outcome from this research will be a set of recommendation for deploying cloud computing in e-Business environment. © 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.