CloudRecoMan: Cloud adoption made easy: A platform for assisting small and medium enterprises to adopt cloud solutions.

Although the adoption and use of cloud computing in large, medium and small enterprises is increasing every year, statistics show that medium and especially small enterprises have a much slower adoption than large enterprises. This suggests that various types of issues may affect Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in making the choice to transit towards the public cloud. Based on experts and literature, SMEs’ adoption of cloud is impacted by lack of resources, concerns on security and data control and uncontrolled increasing cloud costs due to the lack of cloud experience. A platform is not yet available that would assist non-technical SME managers in specifying non-technical business requirements in order to receive assistance in the form of recommendations of cloud resources, cloud applications and deployment plans. The CloudRecoMan platform aims to enable this through the development of a web-based cloud recommender and deployment platform.