DMTC-EBSC: A Novel Decision Making Technique in Cloud Environment Based on Extended BSC

Advantages of cloud computing have attracted a large number of companies and encouraged the it industry for adoption. however, for migration from traditional media to a new environment, there are requirements to adopt a well-defined strategic management model. the strategic management framework that we have proposed for cloud environment includes a strategic management model, a decision making technique, and a computation and evaluation process of the technique. this method has a comprehensive analysis for capabilities and the entities involved in a cloud environment. we present a decision making technique in cloud environment based on extended bsc (dmtc-ebsc) as a blend of modified bsc model, and swot tools for both cloud providers and consumers in a holistic approach for cloud computing environment. also, the method distributes decision making process over strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to give a full view of environmental aspects of cloud ecosystems. to validate the proposed technique, we consider a case study in which we have applied the dmtc-ebsc to a cloud environment for a small and medium-sized enterprise (sme). evaluation results indicate superiority of the dmtcebsc over the original bsc-swot technique which is an extended bsc in terms of standard kpis.