Enterprise mobile cloud application for textile cyberpreneurs: big data issues, challenges and opportunities

Mobile cloud computing (MCC) paradigm is relatively
new and still being studied by researchers in academic and
industry. MCC has embarked the development of various mobile
cloud applications in many sectors including mobile commerce.
In Malaysia, the online business entrepreneurs in the textile
industry or textile cyberpreneurs are searching for new
opportunities to expand their business, thus enterprise mobile
cloud application may perhaps be suitable to be utilized. At the
same time, cloud computing is often being related to Big Data
issues which are still under scrutiny by researchers. The main
purpose of this paper is to highlight the needs to conduct
comprehensive studies in tailoring the enterprise mobile cloud
application specifically for textile cyberpreneurs in Malaysia.
Related issues and challenges regarding the cyberpreneurship in
Malaysia are still debated among researchers and practitioners
especially in managing and organizing big data in order to
become more competitive and reliable in business. Therefore, the
preliminary study through several literatures in big data, textile
industry and enterprise mobile cloud applications are also
presented in this paper along with the proposed research
methodology of the study.