Method and Apparatus for Making a BPM Application Available to Multiple Tenants

An apparatus for making a business process management (BPM) software application available to multiple tenants in a multi-tenancy software model, comprising:

• an obtaining module, configured to obtain a service level agreement (SLA) as required by a tenant in a multi-tenancy software model, in response to a registration request for the BPM software application from the tenant;
• a selecting module, configured to select a multi-tenancy software model based on the SLA;
• a converting module, configured to call a predetermined conversion process corresponding to the selected multi-tenancy software model and to dispose BPM software components in the BPM software application such that the BPM software application is made available as a multi-tenancy BPM software application;
• and
• a storing module, configured to save, in metadata of the tenant, a result of disposing the BPM software components by the conversion process.

An article of manufacture tangibly embodying computer readable instructions which when implemented, causes a computer system to perform the steps of a computer-implemented method for making a business process management (BPM) software application available to multiple tenants in a multi-tenancy software model, said steps comprising:

• obtaining a service level agreement (SLA) as required by a tenant in a multi-tenancy software model, in response to a registration request for the BPM software application from the tenant;
• selecting a multi-tenancy software model based on the obtained SLA;
• calling a predetermined conversion process corresponding to the selected multi-tenancy software model to dispose BPM software components in the BPM software application such that the BPM software application is made available to the tenant as a multi-tenancy BPM software application;
• and
• saving, in metadata of the tenant, the result of disposing the BPM software components by the conversion process.