Leveraging Business Process as a Service with Blueprinting
Willem‐Jan van den Heuvel · 2011
In todays global economy, economies of scale are increasingly realized through networked enterprises transacting and co-creating value on digital infrastructures with a global reach. Given this trend, it is expected that the sheer complexity and scale of enterprise application systems will grow by orders of magnitude. At the same time there will be an increasing pressure on those systems for flexibility, connectivity, dynamicity, elasticity and mobility. Unfortunately however, while cloud computing is generally heralded as the enterprise computing paradigm of choice for developing scalable, on-demand applications that may be accessed from anywhere at any time, it prohibits the development of process-centric enterprise applications systems. In particular, there emerges an urgent need to break the monolithic cloud Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as-a-Service (IaaS) stack architecture including the difficult-to-customize/connect/extend, one-size fits-all cloud models underpinning today's cloud offerings.