TITLE:
The Investigation of Jordanian Education Ministry Employees’ Attitude toward the Using of Cloud ERP
AUTHORS:
Hassan Alhanatleh, Murat Akkaya
KEYWORDS:
Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP), Cloud Computing, Cloud ERP, Jordanian Edu-cation Ministry, TAM, Perceived Usefulness, Ease of Use, Employee Attitude, Queen Rania Center (QRC)
JOURNAL NAME:
International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences,
Vol.9 No.11,
November
11,
2016
ABSTRACT: ERP systems have become an optimal solution for companies to perform
their works with maximum advantages of Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP). Moreover, even though the
cloud computing has many obstacles which need to be solved, but the enterprises
always embrace the cloud. Many enterprises tend to adopt the cloud computing
paradigm in order to get its leverage in successful and benefits. With the development
of cloud computing technology, there is a growing orientation to move the ERP
from inside boundaries of organizations into the cloud computing technologies. In
addition, there were many studies that covered the cloud ERP without concentrating on acceptance the end
user for this technology. Thus,
this study comes to
increase the understanding the attitude of the end user for cloud ERP
technology. The main aim of this study is to investigate the employees’
attitude towards use of cloud ERP. The conceptual research framework of cloud
ERP is prepared based on the technology acceptance
model (TAM). The employees of Queen Rania Center (QRC) in Jordanian Education Ministry used the cloud ERP system which
implemented according to this study. The questionnaires are distributed online
to the sample. The results indicate that the QRC employees enjoyed using the
cloud ERP system.