Business Process as a Service (BPaaS): A Model-Based Approach for Smart Business and IT-Cloud Alignment

The use of cloud computing for the benefit of business is an ambitious goal considering the gap between domain-oriented business processes and executable workflows within a Cloud environment. This tutorial teaches a model based approach, where (a) business process specify the domain, (b) workflow models are used to orchestrate cloud offerings, (c) decision models are used for cloud infrastructure adaptations and (d) ontologies are used to semantically glue all parts together. Such a model-based approach enables both, (i) human oriented knowledge technologies and (ii) machine oriented knowledge technologies for a hybrid knowledge processing. This tutorial targets the practical use, the adaptation and implementation of aforementioned model-based knowledge processing and hence targets cloud brokers. These are limited by current “off the shelf” solutions that focus on delivering virtual server, but do not offer the possibility to “re-implement” individualized solution from scratch on a more business oriented level. Hence this tutorial provides initial solutions use but focuses on the adaptation, extension and re-implementation features of the enabling meta-modelling platform. The audience gets introduced into one of the leading meta-modelling platforms called ADOxx, in form of the world-wide active adoxx.org community, which provides tutorials and training in different application domains.