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Cloud Based Office Suites - Users’ Attitudes Towards Productivity, Usability and Security

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Knowledge Management in Organizations (KMO 2015)

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Cloud Computing is one of the most important developments in the field of information technology. This new kind of service delivery also offers innovative opportunities for office suites usually called Office 2.0. Those tools allow users to access their data and documents anytime and anywhere, as long as an internet connection is available. Due to the internet-based design these tools can be used on almost any device which has a browser installed.

In the first section, the theoretical basis for cloud-based office suites is discussed. The second part presents the results of an empirical survey conducted by the authors and explores the attitudes and feelings towards usability and security of those tools. An experimental setting was used to gather data from the participants. Google Docs was selected to conduct the experiment.

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  1. Management Center Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

    Reinhard Bernsteiner & Robert Pecina

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  2. University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

    Marjan Heričko

  3. National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

    I-Hsien Ting

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Bernsteiner, R., Pecina, R. (2015). Cloud Based Office Suites - Users’ Attitudes Towards Productivity, Usability and Security. In: Uden, L., Heričko, M., Ting, IH. (eds) Knowledge Management in Organizations. KMO 2015. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 224. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21009-4_30

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