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The model of the project has three levels. The first and second levels show the primary and secondary evaluation criteria, respectively, while the last level shows the alternatives for the project. Therefore, it has been decided to quantify the model by sending it to 13 experts and getting their responses that can be helpful to choose one of the choices. The responses that came from the 13 experts showed that the Technological factor was the most important primary criteria to be considered—the mean for the Technological factor calculated by all the experts was 0.369, which can be seen in Appendix B. For the secondary selection criteria, Usefulness was the most important criteria that should be considered and the mean for this factor calculated by all the experts was 0.604. The responses from the expert panel also show that the Economical factor was the second-most important criteria that should be considered—the mean for the Economical factor was 0.268. For the secondary selection criteria the responses from the expert panel showed that Security should be considered as the second-most important criteria, where the calculated mean was 0.581. The third-most important criteria was the Innovation factor with a mean of 0.191. After the final results had been collected from the 13 experts, the final calculation results using the given criteria showed that Amazon Web Services should be chosen as the cloud computing platform to develop the application, as it received the highest mean value of 0.36 (see Appendix A). However, Amazon Web Services also has a biggest standard deviation of 0.07, as compared to other alternatives. It is noteworthy that the data obtained from our panel of experts did not show a high disagreement value, which at 0.055 gives us a good indication that the experts’ opinions about the decision were very close. The advantage suggested by this low disagreement value is that there is little value in investing any further efforts to further lower the disagreement value. From the results, the second-best option for a cloud computing platform was Microsoft Azure.