CloudSocket #

The CloudSocket is a software platform that enables BPaaS. 

 Cloud Provider that offers the CloudSocket service runs a CloudSocket Instance and is called CloudSocket Provider. From a functional point of view, CloudSocket is equipped with a Business Process Marketplace (Design Repository) that provides access to existing pre-defined business processes as well as to implementations thereof.

CloudSocket Suite #

The CloudSocket platform consists of four key environments: design, allocation, execution, evaluation. 

• BPaaS/CloudSocket Design Environment (includes BOC Adonis and ATOS YourBPM Designer)
• BPaaS/CloudSocket Allocation Environment (includes FHOSTER Designer)
• BPaaS/CloudSocket Execution Environment
• BPaaS/CloudSocket Evaluation Environment

CloudSocket Instance #

An installation of the CloudSocket software platform (i.e. of its four independent and interoperable components) on a given infrastructure operated and managed by a CloudSocket Provider. One installation of CloudSocket not necessarily consists of all four software components; some may be missing, as they are not needed and some may have been replaced by custom components with the same interfaces. Finally, some CloudSocket providers may focus on one part of the platform (e.g. design) while others focus on execution and evaluation; and there may exist contracts between these providers.

BPaaS Instance\\ #

The business process has to be defined as a single enter point that allows the end-user to use this process without worrying about the deployment, configuration and maintenance of all the services involved in this business process. It could include the use services/components across Multi-cloud infrastructure. At the end, the end-user will see a single service that creates an instance. So, we need to introduce the concept of multi-tenant, since different end-users (SME, governmental institutions...) want to use the same defined business process as a service. Maybe, we can describe a simple example that describes this BPaaS.