CloudSocket #

The CloudSocket is a software platform that enables BPaaS. 

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

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not necessarily consists of all four software components; some may be missing, as they are not needed and some may have been replaced by custom components with the same interfaces.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.