Requirements engineering and business process management as preconditions for the application of the cloud blueprinting model

Abstract

In this paper, we test the cloud blueprinting approach against a modelled use case. Hereby, we show the importance of both Requirements Engineering (RE) and Business Process Management (BPM) to that application. We highlight the main features of Business-Process-as-a- Service (BPaaS) and the Cloud Blueprint approach, and explain how the integration of requirements following a standard classification allows to enhance the interoperability with other existing models. This is done by means of a business process example modelled with BPMN and later translated to the Blueprint Specification Language (BSL) with the help of RE.