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BPM deals with several organizations and internal systems using various
metadata, platforms, and processes. BPM even deals with people and other
non-IT-related entities that may participate in a process, also called workflow.
Thus, BPM technology must be flexible, providing a translation layer
between the services and the BPM engine. Moreover, BPM technology must
work with several types of technologies and interface patterns.
Bringing Process to the Clouds
The larger story is that we are looking to define processes on top of our services
to create a model that allows us to best determine which processes should be
placed on cloud platforms. Figure 7.3 depicts the current state where processes
reside within on-premise systems, with some of them being good candidates to
exist on cloud platforms.
Figure 7.4 shows us processes that have been relocated to a cloud-based
system, in essence, simply by moving the location where these processes are
On-Premise
Cloud Provider
Figure 7.3 Processes exist on-premise and have the potential to become cloudbased
processes.