Combining business processes and cloud services: A marketplace for processlets

Abstract

Context: Business agility has been approached on BPM-level using process reuse and on execution-level using cloud computing. Objective: We combine these levels linking business processes repositories and cloud-based services. The goal is to provide a framework for BPaaS marketplaces by introducing Processlets as cloud-based implementations of business processes. Method: We design the marketplace’s components and functionalities based on existent literature and survey relevant technologies. Results: We identified the features of the marketplace’s components and discuss suitable technologies for implementation. Conclusion: Our framework fosters reuse of business processes and mitigates the problem of a scattered cloud market.