TY - JFULL AU - Andreas Jede and Frank Teuteberg PY - 2015/3/ TI - Managing the Cloud Procurement Process – Findings from a Case Study T2 - International Journal of Economics and Management Engineering SP - 377 EP - 388 VL - 9 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10000357 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 98, 2015 N2 - Cloud computing (CC) has already gained overall appreciation in research and practice. Whereas the willingness to integrate cloud services in various IT environments is still unbroken, the previous CC procurement processes run mostly in an unorganized and non-standardized way. In practice, a sufficiently specific, yet applicable business process for the important acquisition phase is often lacking. And research does not appropriately remedy this deficiency yet. Therefore, this paper introduces a field-tested approach for CC procurement. Based on an extensive literature review and augmented by expert interviews, we designed a model that is validated and further refined through an in-depth real-life case study. For the detailed process description, we apply the event-driven process chain notation (EPC). The gained valuable insights into the case study may help CC research to shift to a more socio-technical area. For practice, next to giving useful organizational instructions we will provide extended checklists and lessons learned. ER -