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Towards Business-to-IT Alignment in the Cloud

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Cloud computing offers a great opportunity for business process (BP) flexibility, adaptability and reduced costs. This leads to realising the notion of business process as a service (BPaaS), i.e., BPs offered on-demand in the cloud. This paper introduces a novel architecture focusing on BPaaS design that includes the integration of existing state-of-the-art components as well as new ones which take the form of a business and a syntactic matchmaker. The end result is an environment enabling to transform domain-specific BPs into executable workflows which can then be made deployable in the cloud so as to become real BPaaSes.

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This research has received funding from the European Community’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation HORIZON 2020 (ICT-07-2014) under grant agreement number 644690 (CloudSocket).

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Kritikos, K., Laurenzi, E., Hinkelmann, K. (2018). Towards Business-to-IT Alignment in the Cloud. In: Mann, Z., Stolz, V. (eds) Advances in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing. ESOCC 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 824. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-79090-9_3

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