Application-Services Integration among Multi-clouds for Small and Middle Scale Enterprises

Abstract

With the development of application services providing and cloud computing, more and more small or middle scale enterprises do not invest on their own information systems any more, and use software services and even platform services provided by professional information service companies. These information service companies provide management information system services as public resources to support business process operation of their customers. However, for transformation from inter enterprise information systems to extra enterprise clouds, no application service provider can satisfy the full functional requirements of information systems of an enterprise. Therefore, enterprises have to use systems distributed in different clouds. This paper presents a framework to integrate applications deployed in different clouds. An operation platform across different clouds for an enterprise is developed later. A business process oriented technique is also developed to improve the feasibility of information systems under cloud computing environment.