Introduction to the Proceedings of the Workshop on Cloud-enabled Business Process Management (CeBPM) 2012

Abstract

The First Workshop on Cloud-enabled Business Process Management (CeBPM) in 2012 was held in conjunction with the WISE 2012 conference in Paphos, Cyprus. The Workshop focused on an emerging area aiming to address the gap between the automatisation and optimization of business operations on one side and the offering of software service utilities needed to support such business operations on the other. A new set of technologies are needed that would support the increasingly resource demanding daily business operations of enterprises. Some expected benefits of CeBPM approaches are higher availability of business processes on demand, scalable and elastic provision of needed computational resources, lower startup costs for new enterprises and possibilities to chose and optimise the service utilities based on non-functional requirements, such as reliability, securty, cost and so on. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.