Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego. Studia Informatica

Hitherto the main strategy to ensure the adequate IT infrastructure for the organization was to build IT within the available resources. Difficulties in estimating the necessary hardware resources, often become the cause of overinvestment IT infrastructure and consequently incomplete of its use and incurring excess costs. The solution of this situation may be the use of outsourcing IT services. This will preserve the benefits which the organization derives from having an efficient IT system and at the same time allows the release the part of the resources previously involved in the implementation process of IT service delivery.The purpose of this paper is to identify the potential of outsourcing of IT services in the cloud computing model in the context of the effectiveness of supporting management decision-making and the ability to reduce operating costs of the organization. The proposed model and method of procedure for choosing the appropriate type of service has been verified on the example of the new computer lab building in the university. Reached conclusions are the basis for the further research on the cost-effectiveness of outsourcing IT services.