Cirrus: Towards Business Provenance As-a-Service in the Cloud

The problem of systematically capturing and managing business provenance across loosely coupled systems has received insignificant attention despite of its relevance. Business provenance gives the flexibility to selectively capture information required to address specific compliance, security or QoS goals. This paper presents a native cloud-based architecture named Cirrus, it may collect retrospective provenance generated by business processes across multiple internal and external organizational boundaries.