Abstract:

The main goal of the article is to present the benefits and barriers associated with the use of Cloud Computing in the context of their importance to the organization. As an introduction, cloud computing was presented, its basic features, service offering models and implementation models were discussed. Selected statistical data on the CC market and its services in Poland and in the world were also presented. The main part of this study is the presentation of benefits and barriers from the point of view of their importance from the perspective of individual users. This study is a presentation of the next stage of research. The earlier edition of research related to the identification of manifestations of benefits and barriers was described in the author's previous works. The presented results were obtained on the basis of author's own research carried out among students of the Warsaw University in 2018. The research was performed using the Computer-Assisted Web Interviewing (CAWI) method in the form of a survey. The form and questions prepared for the needs of this research was compiled on the basis of research from previous years. Both the benefits and barriers are presented in groups. The benefits were divided into 4 groups, while the barriers into two groups. The results obtained in the article were discussed and summarized in the form of synthetic conclusions.

Keywords:

Cloud computing, barriers, benefits, IT services, importance.