Impact of Cloud Computing on E-commerce Organizations

Running head: CLOUD COMPUTING IN E-COMMERCE ORGANIZATION
CLOUD COMPUTING IN E-COMMERCE ORGANIZATION
Name of the Student:
Name of University:
Author Note:

1CLOUD COMPUTING IN E-COMMERCE ORGANIZATION
Introduction
The use of emerging technology has helped the organizations to achieve the desirable
business objective sand business goals. The use of technology has helped the business
organizations to achieve the organizational profit along with maintaining the standards of the
products and services. The use of technology can be done on the various sectors of the industry.
The positive digital disruptions in the organization help to mitigate the overhead cost for the
organizations (Garrison, Wakefield and Kim 2015). Along with that the marketing and of the
products and services can be done through the usage of different technologies. This helps the
organizations to reach to the large consumer base along with that provide better services to the
existing consumers. Main objective of this paper is evaluation of the impact of an emerging
technology- cloud computing on the business process of an e-commerce company. The
discussion covers the impact of the digital disruptions of the company and the issues faced by the
company due to the digital disruption. The opportunities and the challenges due to this digital
disruption with the stakeholders of the company are also evaluated in the context of this
discussion. The recommendations and conclusion are made on the basis of the findings from the
situational analysis.
Discussion
Selected technology for the organization:
The selected technology for the discussion is the cloud technology which is also known
as cloud computing. Implementation of cloud computing has opened up for new technology for
storing the data. Apart from that this technology is providing the organization to large amount of
data along with the security. The e-Commerce organizations like Amazon are adopting the use

2CLOUD COMPUTING IN E-COMMERCE ORGANIZATION
of the cloud computing for the storing of the data for the organizations(Al-Jaberi, Mohamed and
Al-Jaroodi 2015). On basis of the requirements the cloud storage offers different deployment
system. The security and the access various for different deployment system. In the public
cloud the access of the information can be done by any users of the cloud whereas in the private
cloud the access is restricted among certain persons. The implementation of hybrid cloud allows
the usage of the public and private cloud simultaneously. This enhances the security of the data
and information.
Selection of the business for the implementation cloud computing:
The selected field to discuss the impact of emerging technology is e-commerce. E-
commerce has become the growing trend for the business organizations. Most of the
organizations are promoting and selling their services and products through online (Yu et al.
2017). The implementation of the e-commerce and e-business need the storage of large amount
of data. In this case, the storage of the data manually can become expensive. In this context the
application of the cloud technology for the storage of data can be beneficial.
Impacts of cloud technology on the selected business field:
The implementation of the cloud computing has helped the organization to enter into the
e-commerce environment of doing business (Skolmen and Gerber 2015) . The main advantage
of the cloud computing is that the storage space for the data is larger compared to the
conventional data storage system. Apart from that the security provided in the cloud computing
is better than the traditional system. The maintenance of the security is the responsibility of the
cloud providing vendor. There are certain positive impact of the application of cloud computing
in e-commerce organization.