Modelling Requirements for Business Process as a Service

Abstract

The utilization of cloud computing has become more popular. New service models have appeared such as Business process as a Service (BPaaS). BPaaS is a form of business process outsourcing. The advantage of BPaaS is to select to a business process that is connected with various cloud services such SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. The current challenge that BPaaS faces is to match business processes to proper cloud services. To ensure the correct matching, requirements of business processes should be taken into consideration. The research proposes an approach that considers a description of functional requirements in order to find proper cloud services. Developed description has been used for annotation business process activities and cloud services. The approach consists of American productivity and quality center (APQC) process classification framework and functional business process description ontology....