Business process services, of course, have been built on applications that are running within the enterprise to fulfill business demands.

According to a recent essay from Sankaralingam Kumar, recently “the concept of SaaS (News - Alert) clouds has gained significance with services being hosted in a common cloud environment within the enterprise or outside the enterprise.”

Kumar proposes an implementation of Cloud-based SaaS Enterprise Frameworks in "Corporate Action Events" Processing. Much more at the original essay than we can summarize here, it’s worth reading in full.

As he said, “a lot of discussions have appeared on how enterprise architecture services and cloud-based services, namely SaaS, are connected within an organization and how these architectural styles are better used to fulfill business domain demands.” Enterprise architecture, he noted, “often describes the blueprint of applications and strategies within an enterprise, whereas enterprise SOA is more about enterprise services and provides integration using service orientation.”

It’s for this reason, he believes, that cloud-based SaaS “has the ability to use the services from a common framework either internally using private clouds or externally using public clouds. Technology advancements always provide a good opportunity for the fulfillment of various business demands.”

Last year TMC’s (News - Alert) Sujata Garud wrote that CSC (News - Alert), a vendor of technology-enabled business tools and services, selected Skytap to power its CloudLab offering, a recently launched cloud-based development and test service delivered in a software-as-a-service model.

This deal “will help commercial and government customers accelerate their transition to the cloud with the goal of achieving greater agility, operational efficiencies and business productivity,” company officials said, adding “CloudLab is available immediately via the CSC Gateway (News - Alert), an e-commerce portal for hosting and cloud services.”