Enterprise tomography driven integration lifecycle management of federated ERP in green clouds

Abstract

Cloud Computing is finding its way into the architecture of current IT landscapes. The present paper depicts the challenges of the required changes of Enterprise Data Centers from on-promise solutions towards on-demand systems. Cloud standardization in the context of the Open Cloud Manifesto is discussed as well as a reference model basing upon semantic composition and federation (Federated ERP Systems). It is described how Enterprise Tomography can support the governance process and Integration Lifecycle Management of an Enterprise Cloud by comparing different system states. Finally, an outlook on an approach involving environmental aspects (Green Clouds) is given. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.