As organisations pursue to exploit the business value of their information systems and technology (IS/IT), cloud computing has become a topic of great interest to businesses. One of the main advantages of cloud computing services is in its offering of on-demand lower costs compared with other existing solutions helping organisations in providing better financial savings and capabilities. Furthermore, cloud computing technologies maintain the abilities to overcome geographical and administrative boundaries, ensuring accessibilities online at any given time, location and device. The exponential growth of cloud computing providers and year-on-year increase of adoption by organisations can be seen as a paradigm shift, making cloud computing a topic of great interest to industries and academics alike. This innovative driven technology has strategically transformed business processes towards an online/on-demand dynamic service model for computation, communication and information capabilities responding to the needs of global markets. In this respect, this assignment is focusing on examining how Cloud Computing technologies can be deployed as a driver for organizations towards strategically positioning themselves globally. Your task in this assignment, as an IT manager at Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) “X”, is to: 1. Examine cloud computing value creation within SMEs; in particular how cloud computing can be utilised as a vehicle in supporting SMEs maintaining competitive advantage at global level 2. Discuss the impact of cloud computing technologies will have on the related economic, cultural, legal and demographics issues from a global and societal perspectives. Your report should provide the required discussion and analysis on how to address the above issues. Where possible, you are encouraged to utilize a local case/company for your work in this assignment. Otherwise, you can present your work based on a hypothetical organizational sittings (i.e. SME X). Your work for this assignment should not exceed 2000 words.