Abstract:
The paper examined the organizational factors that informed decisions to adopt cloud computing
by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Kampala, Uganda.
The paper is an outcome of a study conducted in Kampala in 2022. The study was both
descriptive and explanatory and relied on the quantitative approach of data collection and
analysis. The data were collected from 416 SMEs.
It was found out that the benefits of cloud computing (Mean = 3.68, St. Dev = .773), the
relevance of cloud computing to the organization (Mean = 3.58, St. Dev = .649), unreliability of
insourced IT services (Mean = 3.74, St. Dev = .916), the need to backup organizational data
(Mean = 3.87, St. Dev = .696)., managerial support for cloud computing (Mean = 3.29, St. Dev =
.900), among others—drove decisions in organizations to adopt cloud computing
