relation: https://khub.utp.edu.my/scholars/10205/ title: EaaS Optimization: Available yet hidden information technology infrastructure inside medium size enterprise creator: JosephNg, P.S. description: Information technology infrastructure procurement is a focal issue for Malaysia Medium Size Enterprises confronting shortage asset amid economic turbulence. In this paper, we propose a financially savvy asset pooling shared service that improves on-request benefit yet dependable as the enterprise revolves. Further, we look at the appropriateness of legacy hypotheses for the commodity of IT infrastructure and disruptive innovation. Our provocation opens up a key investment association between the proposed integrated IT infrastructure benefits with the key enterprise factors in monetarily feasible. The exploration was completed by means of a survey with data collected from 100 respondents in Peninsular Malaysia and test-retest again the validity of the past 122 respondents for data consistency. The findings posits that despite the fact that innovation highlights have its own points of interest, however, un-optimized and un-reusabilities of existing desktop are two critical determinants of infrastructure investment. It additionally rationalized that wasteful spending is a basic determinant of investment, giving the huge impact to over-speculation and over-spending plan. The findings drive us to propose an organic flexibility infrastructure solution that will expand or recoil with the business execution prompting the discoveries for Exostructure as a Service framework as a Technology Management manual. © 2018 Elsevier Inc. publisher: Elsevier Inc. date: 2018 type: Article type: PeerReviewed identifier: JosephNg, P.S. (2018) EaaS Optimization: Available yet hidden information technology infrastructure inside medium size enterprise. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 132. pp. 165-173. ISSN 00401625 relation: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85042376754&doi=10.1016%2fj.techfore.2018.01.030&partnerID=40&md5=4f82dd4261aebbe222571b5a5c4dd524 relation: 10.1016/j.techfore.2018.01.030 identifier: 10.1016/j.techfore.2018.01.030