SoS Paradigm Benefits SaaS Integration: Novel Approach and First Results

To fulfill its complex business demands, an organization may require the integration of many SaaS applications. A main challenge in this regard is to select the suitable SaaS offerings that satisfy all the business requirements. Due to the diversity of QoS needs and the large number of SaaS providers, selecting the suitable set of SaaS applications to be integrated may result in QoS degradation and higher costs. In this paper, we propose to use a System-of-Systems (SoS)-based approach for the selection and integration of SaaS. We believe that the use of SoS and its dynamic properties could improve the service selection at SaaS level. To do so, we propose three Mixed Integer Programming models that optimize the global SaaS behavior by minimizing the overall delivery costs, and maximizing the global functional and QoS utilities. The implementation of the approach and the experimental results highlight the efficiency of our proposed solution.