Service design studio for SaaS

The aim of the Service Design Studio project is to provide methods and tools to enable the deployment of existing software in cloud environments based on the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model. As the project focuses on logistics IT services, the approach is contributing to a new Logistics-as-a-Service offering. This article provides a description of the requirements analysis for enabling logistics IT services to be offered in cloud environments, the concepts for the necessary methods and tools, and the implementation of a proof of concept Service Design Studio environment.