Enterprise mobile cloud application for textilecyberpreneurs: big data issues, challenges andopportunities

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.