α BPaaS - A Customizable BPaaS on the Cloud

Yehia Taher, Rafiqul Haque, Willem-jan van den Heuvel, Beatrice Finance

2013

Abstract

With the emergence of the Internet technologies - notably, SOA and Cloud Computing - enterprises are increasingly delivering their business services through on-line service offerings called Business Process as a Service (BPaaS). However, current BPaaS offerings can be perceived as monolithic cloud solutions that are constrained by the capabilities that are made available by the provider at their delivery level and do not allow for easy extensibility or customization options. In this paper, we propose a novel BPaaS engineering techniques which cater for the tailoring of services to specific business needs using a mixture of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS solutions - possibly from various providers. It is the prime goal of our proposal to simplify the engineering of BPaaS applications by hiding the complexity of their development and deployment. This is achieved by providing a customization solution to manage all configuration of functional and non functional aspects related to a BPaaS offering.

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in Harvard Style

Taher Y., Haque R., Heuvel W. and Finance B. (2013). α BPaaS - A Customizable BPaaS on the Cloud . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-8565-52-5, pages 290-296. DOI: 10.5220/0004379602900296


in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer13,
author={Yehia Taher and Rafiqul Haque and Willem-jan van den Heuvel and Beatrice Finance},
title={α BPaaS - A Customizable BPaaS on the Cloud},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2013},
pages={290-296},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004379602900296},
isbn={978-989-8565-52-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - α BPaaS - A Customizable BPaaS on the Cloud
SN - 978-989-8565-52-5
AU - Taher Y.
AU - Haque R.
AU - Heuvel W.
AU - Finance B.
PY - 2013
SP - 290
EP - 296
DO - 10.5220/0004379602900296