Challenges of Business Process Management in the Cloud

CHALLENGES OF
BUSINESS
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CHALLENGES OF BUSINESS 1
Table of Contents
Background................................................................................................................................2
Benefits......................................................................................................................................2
No cost of infrastructure.........................................................................................................2
Storage....................................................................................................................................2
Automatic update....................................................................................................................2
Challenges of business process management in the cloud.........................................................3
Limited flexibility...................................................................................................................3
Security and vendor lock-in....................................................................................................3
References..................................................................................................................................4
Appendixes.................................................................................................................................5

CHALLENGES OF BUSINESS 2
Background
IT world has taken to business process management cloud in a storm. Organizations
by business process management cloud have moved from current public cloud to own hybrid
cloud or private cloud. It provides a more cost-efficient solution to organizations and services
though making use of low-priced computing solutions that combines virtualization, internet,
and pervasive technologies. To access services of cloud it is necessary to have a decent
connection of the internet always with effective bandwidth to download or upload files from
the cloud. Only owner of business process management in the cloud has proper control and
access to cloud infra.
Benefits
No cost of infrastructure
There is no need to invest in any hardware or infrastructure as hold its infrastructure.
It works according to pay and only need to spend according to necessary resources of a
business. By the service of cloud in business process management only need to compare the
best service provider to plan and buy from one that matches requirements. It saves a lot of
time and efforts of a business to maintain a task procedure. By the support of cloud in
business process management resources of an organization are easily manageable and
accessible around the globe (Geczy, Izumi, & Hasida, 2012).
Storage
It provides a secure and large storage space to store and manage valuable information.
This centralizes all data from many projects. It helps organizations to gain control over data
without visiting individual place for information checking. Cloud services denote the
operation of an automated, virtualized, and service-oriented IT site to allow the flexible
provision. This prevents automatic backup of the data to cloud continuously and support to
recover data in accidental deletion like natural calamity or hard drive crashes.
Automatic update
Updating a system within the organization can be a frustrating task for an
organization. Departments within the organization do not need to update procedures as they
waste time but affect productivity. Automatically procedure of update helps to use
application within the organization without any involvement of users (Avdikkagzadegan,
2013).