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Combining Business Processes and Cloud Services: A Marketplace for Processlets

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Business Information Systems (BIS 2015)

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Abstract

Context: Business agility has been approached on BPM-level using process reuse and on execution-level using cloud computing. Objective: We combine these levels linking business processes repositories and cloud-based services. The goal is to provide a framework for BPaaS marketplaces by introducing Processlets as cloud-based implementations of business processes. Method: We design the marketplace’s components and functionalities based on existent literature and survey relevant technologies. Results: We identified the features of the marketplace’s components and discuss suitable technologies for implementation. Conclusion: Our framework fosters reuse of business processes and mitigates the problem of a scattered cloud market.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The term Web service is used ambiguously: Often, it refers to a WSDL-based service. However, an increasing number of providers are offering RESTful Web services to make them more accessible [14]. For this reason, we use the more general term Cloud services to refer to any kind of Web services that exploit the potential of clouds, regardless of their architecture.

  2. 2.

    http://www.ibm.com/marketplace/cloud/ [accessed: January 20, 2015].

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    https://websmp106.sap-ag.de/public/home [accessed: January 20, 2015].

  4. 4.

    https://marketplace.cisco.com/cloud [accessed: January 20, 2015].

  5. 5.

    https://cloud.oracle.com/marketplace/ [accessed: January 20, 2015].

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We would like to thank Marcela Ruiz and Barbara Re for valuable discussions and their profound remarks, which led to considerable improvement of the paper.

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Sprovieri, D., Vogler, S. (2015). Combining Business Processes and Cloud Services: A Marketplace for Processlets. In: Abramowicz, W. (eds) Business Information Systems. BIS 2015. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 208. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19027-3_20

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