Strategic Alignment of Cloud-Based Architectures for Big Data

Big Data is an increasingly significant topic for management and IT departments. In the beginning, Big Data applications were large on premise installations. Today, cloud services are used increasingly to implement Big Data applications. This can be done on different ways supporting different strategic enterprise goals. Therefore, we develop a framework that enumerates the alternatives for implementing Big Data applications using cloud-services and identify the strategic goals supported by these Alternatives. The created framework clarifies the options for Big Data initiatives using cloud-computing and thus improves the strategic alignment of Big Data applications.