CloudFlow - An Infrastructure for Engineering Workflows in the Cloud

In this paper, we present a framework for easy integration
of existing software solutions in a cloud environment.
We aim to allow software providers to offer their products in the
Cloud through a common web portal. Central in the framework is
workflows, where independent software solutions can be chained
together to solve the users tasks in a unified way. One of
the main challenges addressed here, is facilitating workflows
spanning multiple software vendors and cloud solutions. The
framework is validated by a range of experiments, consisting
of both software vendors and end users, from the context of
manufacturing industries, and offer unique and ubiquitous access
to integrated workflows.