2016-11-02, Kurjakovic, Sabrina, Lammel, Benjamin, Laurenzi, Emanuele, Woitsch, Robert, Hinkelmann, Knut

2016, Kurjakovic, Sabrina, Lammel, Benjamin, Woitsch, Robert, Kritikos, Kyriakos, Hinkelmann, Knut, Krogstie, John, Mouratidis, Haralambos, Su, Jianwen

Business processes can benefit from cloud offerings, but bridging the gap between business requirements and technical solutions is still a big challenge. We propose Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) as a main concept for the alignment of business process with IT in the cloud. The mechanisms described in this paper provide modelling facilities for both business and IT levels: (a) a graphical modelling environment for processes, workflows and service requirements, (b) an extension of an enterprise ontology with cloud-specific concepts, (c) semantic lifting of graphical models and (d) SPARQL querying and inferencing for semantic alignment of business and cloud IT.