HOW BPAAS WORKS IN THE REAL WORLD OF CLOUD COMPUTING

If you've decided to use BPaaS (Business Process as a Service) in a hybrid cloud model as a delivery platform for services, you need to understand how to mesh services together based on the processes you want to execute.

As shown in the following figure, a SaaS (Software as a Service) software, PaaS (Platform as a Service) environments, and IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service). For example, there may be CRM and social media applications.

Linking services together based on process.
BPaaS services allow you to experiment with new business processes because they are not based on the programming of individual business initiatives. For example, a packaged BPaaS offering that handles business travel processing or order-to-cash processes may be available, as well as services for processing processing claims to managing clinical data For drug trials.

THE BENEFITS OF CLOUD-BASED BPAAS

Like other cloud-based services, BPaaS frees the business and the IT department from having to worry about the services that support the various processes. You do not have to manage or even know about the underlying middleware, networking, or database. Offerings are created so that security is an element of the solution, not an afterthought.

The process services offered by ADP are probably the best-known BPaaS services. ADP helps companies manage their payroll and the accounting and legal aspects related to that process. A company using ADP does not have to be concerned that its payment information will be intermixed with information from other companies. ADP can implement payroll services based on its customer's specific business process.

WHAT BPAAS COMPANIES LOOK LIKE

It's worth describing some of the businesses that deliver massively scaled cloud applications and business processes. Most of the companies listed here have to cover uncharted business territories when they developed their service. For this reason, the services they offer are not traditionally to be thought of as business services - but that's really what they are.

Here's a list of companies in this field and the business processes they deliver:

EBay: Provides an electronic auction service

PayPal: Provides an Internet payment capability as a service

Skype: Owned by Microsoft, Skype provides Voice over IP (VoIP) phone calls as a service, most of which are free

Google: Provides an Internet search capability as a service

This service is free when you have access to the Internet. Google also provides an Internet e-mail service, Gmail. Google has quite a few other services, including maps, news aggregation, Google Apps, and so on.

YouTube: Provides video self-publishing as a service and was acquired by Google

Yahoo !: Like Google, Yahoo! Provide an Internet search service and e-mail service

MailChimp and Constant Contact: Provide services for sending out online newsletters and marketing campaigns

Craigslist: Offers small ads as a service

WordPress: Hosts blogs as a service

LinkedIn: Offers business contacts and networking as a service

Facebook and Twitter: Provide social networking services that have a huge reach across the globe

These companies are designed to support a specific type of workload. Because their data centers are optimized to support these specialized workloads, they are able to easily support millions of users so efficiently that it's very hard to compete with them.

LOOKING AT WEB-BASED BUSINESS SERVICES

You might be inclined to think that web-based businesses are a company that you are outsourced.

Be aware that many of these companies start out without a well-defined revenue stream, and some of them have yet to demonstrate a viable business model for their activities. This is currently the case, for example, with Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, all of which exist in the case of investors (or Google in the case of YouTube) that they will eventually find a profitable way of operating.

Most of the businesses are in the very lowest cost of infrastructure. Quite a few Internet auction houses existed before eBay's market, but none have made much of an impact.