LBEF RESEARCH JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Author(s): Dipak Adhikari, R N Thakur

Abstract: Cloud computing (CC) is newly developed information technology (IT) related model to access the on-demand shared network pool of the resources (e.g., data storage, database, data banking or repository, applications, and relevant services) that can be instantly and efficiently released and shared with minimal interaction with the management or the service provider. The study was carried out to explore the critical success factor in CC to adopt it in the bank sectors in Nepal. Another objective of the study was to find out some challenges to adopt to the CC in the banking sector of Nepal. Self-administered questionnaire was designed and handed over to the college students and banking staffs in the Kathmandu valley, Nepal to collect primary data. Furthermore, the data were entered in SPSS version 25 and Excel both and descriptive statistics was applied. The finding of the present research study was 114 male and 22 females from the student respondents from the various colleges. Whereas 27 represented male and 11 represented females from various bank’s respondents in Kathmandu valley Nepal. The study found that there were various age group of student’s respondents and bank’s respondents whereas 97 respondents existed in 20-30 years from students followed by 18 respondents existed in 31-40 from the bank in the Kathmandu valley Nepal. Furthermore, the present study explored that there were 21 respondents from the bank revealed that there were 0-5-year work experienced in the bank, followed by 16 respondents from the bank revealed that 6-10 years experienced in the bank.

The research showed that maximum students (55, 40.4%) were neutral about shifting of the banking sector of Nepal into the cloud computing would help the banking sector secure more money and increase investment whereas 15 (39.5%) bankers agreed upon that shifting of the banking sector of Nepal into the cloud computing would help the banking sector secure more money and increase investment.

Keywords Cloud Computing, Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS), Excel, Bank, questionnaire, quantitative.