Abstract
The lack of a system that assists in the business process out-sourcing to the cloud hinders the widespread adoption of this emerging computing paradigm. To the best of our knowledge, there is no system that has tackled the business process outsourcing to the cloud issues such as selecting the activities to outsource and the cloud services to support their execution based on objective and subjective assessments of cloud services. In this paper, we propose a system tackling these issues by using previous cloud users experience for the subjective assessment. The objective assessment is based on simulations using the well-known CloudSim toolkit. The aggregation of the objective and subjective assessment allows for more reliable cloud service selection. Furthermore, we propose an optimal deployment of business process activities by proposing a novel penalty based genetic algorithm while considering business process profile.