1. Research method
1.1. The model of the research process that was provided by Oates (2006) is a suitable reference for the present research method.
1.1.1. According to the aforementioned model, firstly, researchers must define the component that make up the research process including strategy
1.1.1.1. (example, survey, design and creation, experiment, case study, action research, ethnography), data generation methods (eg, interview, observation, questionnaires, documents) and data analysis methods (quantitative or qualitative).
2. Cloud Computng
2.1. Cloud computing denotes hosted online services
2.2. cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources
2.2.1. (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services)
2.2.1.1. that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction
2.3. is a new technology that helps organizations to develop and create competitive advantage with inherent characteristics
2.3.1. such as agility, flexibility, scalability, simple and secure accessibility from anywhere, increasing reliability, enhancing fault tolerance and economic efficiency.
2.4. is to enable organizations to migrate effectively and efficiently from their existing services to cloud solutions.
2.4.1. Migration to cloud is an organizational strategic decision.
3. Essential
3.1. A systematic literature search deals with identifying, categorizing and synthesizing the previous published studies and enabling knowledge sharing in the research community.
3.1.1. This research provides a comprehensive framework for migration to the cloud by the meta-synthesis approach and systematic literature search of the published studies.
4. Palabras Claves
4.1. Cloud computing
4.2. Migration framework
4.3. Process maturity model
4.4. Meta-synthesis
5. “Design and creation”
5.1. strategy consists of five stages which are called awareness, suggestion, development, evaluation and conclusion ( Oates, 2006 ).
5.1.1. In suggestion and development stages
5.1.1.1. meta-synthesis approach is applied to identify concepts, related sub-categories and related categories and ultimately provide a comprehensive framework.
5.2. A conclusion also constitutes the final stage.
5.2.1. In this stage the acquired knowledge along with design process explanation is documented.
5.3. we use the meta-synthesis method that is one of the qualitative methods and it is consistent with interpretive paradigm assumptions.
6. Formulate the review questions (RQs)
6.1. What are the existing processes or phases of cloud migration?
6.2. How do these processes or phases form migration framework?
6.3. Based on our research, what can we conclude about the appropriate cloud migration framework?
7. Extract the Results, analyze and synthesize qualitative findings
7.1. What are the existing processes or phases of cloud migration?
7.2. How do these processes or phases form migration framework?
8. Validation of research
8.1. Experts peer review in the approval of research outputs (Sandelowski and Barroso, 2007)
8.2. Proporcionar un resultado integral de la utilización de nuevos casos de estudio (Thorne, 2009)
9. Results (proposed framework) and discussion
9.1. Then, we improve the primary framework based on complementary findings and add new phases (categories) to it as well as proposing the final migration framework.
9.1.1. Finally, we clarify our proposed cloud migration maturity model for improving migration processes.