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2011 IEEE International Conference on Web Services
A Multi-tenant Architecture for Business Process Executions
Washington, DC USA
July 04-July 09
ISBN: 978-0-7695-4463-2
Cloud computing, as a concept, promises cost savings to end-users by letting them outsource their non-critical business functions to a third party in pay-as-you-go style. However, to enable economic pay-as-you-go services, we need Cloud middleware that maximizes sharing and support near zero costs for unused applications. Multi-tenancy, which let multiple tenants (user) to share a single application instance securely, is a key enabler for building such a middleware. On the other hand, Business processes capture Business logic of organizations in an abstract and reusable manner, and hence play a key role in most organizations. This paper presents the design and architecture of a Multi-tenant Workflow engine while discussing in detail potential use cases of such architecture. Primary contributions of this paper are motivating workflow multi-tenancy, and the design and implementation of multi-tenant workflow engine that enables multiple tenants to run their workflows securely within the same workflow engine instance without modifications to the workflows.
Index Terms:
Multi-tenancy, Cloud, SOA, Workflows, Business Processes
Citation:
Milinda Pathirage, Srinath Perera, Indika Kumara, Sanjiva Weerawarana, "A Multi-tenant Architecture for Business Process Executions," icws, pp.121-128, 2011 IEEE International Conference on Web Services, 2011
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