Implementation Of Cloud Computing In Small And Medium-sized Foreign Trade Enterprises In The Application Of Information Construction

At present, small and medium-sized enterprises accounted for the vast majority offoreign trade enterprises in China. They play an important role in ensuring the steadygrowth of the national economy, keeping market competition, advancing technologicalinnovation, and promoting market prosperity, etc. In recent years, the rapid development ofinformation technology has made the traditional business models and market environmentundergoing profound changes, small and medium-sized foreign trade enterprises are facingnew opportunities and challenges, more and more enterprises gradually realize theimportance of IT application.For many small and medium-sized foreign trade enterprises, because of therestrictions of objective conditions, they need to enhance the enterprise operationefficiency through informatization construction, in order to raise economic benefits. Butthe traditional informatization construction investment is quite huge, it should experiencesoftware and hardware system planning, design, purchase, install, deploy, as well as thelong-term operation and maintenance, the construction cycle is a long term, consumptingenormous human and material resources. Huge cost and profit that informatizationconstruction brings make enterprises to be in a dilemma, how to reduce the cost ofinformatization construction become a problem to numerous small and medium-sizedforeign trade enterprises. This situation begins to change when the concept of cloudcomputing gradually put into application. In recent years, more small and medium-sizedforeign trade enterprises begin to use cloud computing in informatization construction toimprove the economic efficiency. Cloud computing has wide application prospect and hugebusiness opportunities. It is proved that for small and medium-sized foreign tradeenterprises, cloud computing play an important role in business processes optimizing,informatization construction cost reducing, management level and economic benefitspromoting, etc.This paper provides a reference for small and medium-sized foreign trade enterprisesto apply cloud computing technology to carry forward informatization with low cost andhigh efficiency, through the analysis of opportunities, challenges and problems which smalland medium-sized foreign trade enterprises face while using cloud computing technology,and through the explore of the direction, strategy and steps of applying cloud computingtechnology.