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Development of a Cloud Business Process Architecture Using the Riva Method

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Technological Sustainability and Business Competitive Advantage

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This paper aims to introduce a new artifact in the cloud computing (CC) discipline that directs and supports management in organizations in choosing the right approach to embrace CC. This artifact is a business process architecture (BPA) that presents and simplifies the field and generates a bird’s-eye view for its users. It also solves technological preparedness, complexity, and compatibility problems that companies meet while transforming into CC. The artifact contains the core elements of CC and identifies its main processes. A qualitative approach is adopted for data collection and analysis using semi-structured interviews with experts in addition to the literature review of CC resources. The Riva BPA is nominated as an object-based BPA method to build this artifact. Riva’s primary fundamental step is finding the essential business entities (EBEs) of the domain they have agreed on, cloud computing. These EBEs are the cornerstones that present the CC discipline and are utilized to continue the development of a CC business process architecture (CCBPA). EBEs are translated into Riva units of work (UOWs) and their dependent 1st and 2nd cut process architectures. The final CCBPA has been evaluated by validating its main elements by experts in the cloud computing domain. Eventually, the new CCBPA shows advantages in understanding the CC discipline and presenting an approach for organizations to prepare and plan the host of cloud technology in their business, in addition to its support of integration between cloud computing and other related disciplines.

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    Mohammad Omar Sabri & Mahmoud Odeh

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Sabri, M.O., Odeh, M. (2023). Development of a Cloud Business Process Architecture Using the Riva Method. In: Al Mubarak, M., Hamdan, A. (eds) Technological Sustainability and Business Competitive Advantage . Internet of Things. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35525-7_28

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