A Survey of Cloud Workflow

DOI

10.2991/icsem.2013.45How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Cloud Computing, Workflow, Cloud Workflow, Business Process

Abstract

Traditionally, enterprises have approached IT modernization and back office process enhancement in silos, by introducing multiple vendors with different technologies, platforms and operating systems, which limits process integrity and leads to disseminated responsibilities. In contrast, the Cloud revolution has made it much easier for enterprises to approach business transformation in a holistic manner, leading to a quantum leap in their business and IT practices and performance. In other words, Cloud-based workflow (which is shorted for cloud workflow) technology is now regarded as a pretty good solution: Cloud workflow helps organizations in process harmonization, optimal organization design and change management offering benefits beyond cost reduction, it enables a complex application instance to be abstractly defined, flexibly configured and auto-operated. This paper introduces shortly the technology of both cloud computing and workflow and then presents the concepts and features of cloud workflow. Meanwhile, the following part discusses the application scenario and the application cases of cloud workflow. Lastly a possible trend of workflow in the future is proposed.

Copyright

© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Hua Huang
AU  - Yi-Lai Zhang
AU  - Min Zhang
PY  - 2013/04
DA  - 2013/04
TI  - A Survey of Cloud Workflow
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference On Systems Engineering and Modeling (ICSEM 2013)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 230
EP  - 236
SN  - 1951-6851
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DO  - 10.2991/icsem.2013.45
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