Improving Cloud Integration Using Design Science Research
Mihaela I. MUNTEAN, Claudiu Br, Marian Pompiliu Cristescu, MATIU DIANA · ECONOMIC COMPUTATION AND ECONOMIC CYBERNETICS STUDIES AND RESEARCH · 2021
Cloud integration offers new opportunities to streamline the business processes in organizations.Variate integration approaches are possible: Cloud-to-Cloud, Cloud-Integrator-Cloud or Cloud-Cloud-Cloud.Depending on the cloud service, we identify various cloud service models, namely Anything as a Service (XaaS).We propose an activity framework for deploying a Cloud-Integrator-Cloud (CIC) integration of two Software as a Service (SaaS) systems.The demarche has an achievement in the implementation of two SAP Cloud software.The software integration is subject of a SCRUM process management approach.We consider the integration framework and the integration process implementation artefacts, outputs of a software project developed in terms of the Design Science Research (DSR) process.Based on relevant literature references on DSR, we apply DSR principles to the CIC integration problem.The DSR process steps are mapped to the SCRUM sprints introduced in the integration project.