Towards Cloud-enabled Business Process Management Based on Patterns, Rules and Multiple Models

Considered a combination of Software-as-a-Service and Business Process Outsourcing, Business Process as a Service has the potential to provide the killer applications able to propel Cloud computing to a higher technological level. Following a general overview of the current state-of-the-art in research and implementation of the BPaaS, we propose a mind switch towards the applicability of re-usable business process patterns and a multi-modeling approach for BPaaS design, deployment and operation. In order to demonstrate the feasibility of the approach we provide two examples of BPaaSs that can take advantage of Cloud computing in order to gain clear benefits in terms of services' efficiency.