Benefits and Challenges for BPM in the Cloud - A Review

Running head: ITECH 5404 BUSINESS PROCESS ANALYTICS AND CHANGE
ITECH 5404 Business Process Analytics and Change
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Table of Contents
Introduction..........................................................................................................................3
Understanding the business framework...............................................................................3
Cloud computing definitions...............................................................................................4
Cloud services structuring...................................................................................................4
PaaS.................................................................................................................................4
SaaS.................................................................................................................................4
BPaaS...............................................................................................................................5
IaaS..................................................................................................................................5
Benefits of cloud services in a business..............................................................................5
Abstraction.......................................................................................................................5
Virtualization...................................................................................................................5
Lower costs for start-ups.................................................................................................6
Business flexibility..........................................................................................................6
Challenges of using cloud services......................................................................................6
Security............................................................................................................................6
Data transfer.....................................................................................................................6
Appendix..............................................................................................................................7
References............................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
The competitiveness of the world in terms of businesses is growing every single day. In
order to sustain and survive within this competitive market, it is immensely important for any
company to take as much help as possible be it by implementing collaborative concepts or any
other means. Over the years, cloud computing has transformed the working framework of several
organizations by providing many benefits in the form of service computing and operation
management. This article establishes a peer review on the journal by Ute Riemann, named:
Benefits and Challenges for BPM in the cloud (Riemann, 2015). In addition to it, this article
relates the ongoing challenges discussed in the journal with the other journals reviewed by my
group members.
Understanding the business framework
The prime focus of any particular business is process enhancement and ensuring that
these processes meet the risk regulations and other compliances. Moreover, the customer needs
are increasing day by day and they want their services and products to be delivered as soon as
possible. In order to deliver proper customer satisfaction an organization needs to be effective,
efficient and dynamic in providing their services and products (Nallusamy & Ahamed, 2017).
One of the best ways to address the increasing challenges in terms of efficiency, effectiveness,
flexibility, capacity and responsiveness is process improvement. Although there are various
technological tools that can be implemented in order to improve the business processes of an
organization, some of the aspects need to be refined. In that case, social media plays a vital role
in managing the business processes and it is quite evident from article 2.