Cloud based Retail Predictive Application Server (RPAS) platform for planning

Abstract

With the emerging era of technology, cloud has come-up as one of the most used platform. Moving to cloud has its several advantages like resources sharing, cost-effectiveness, platform independence and many more. Oracle Cloud is one of the major Cloud platform that provides cloud solution for various platforms(IAAS,SAAS,PAAS) across the globe. RPAS is one of the retail platform server used for planning. RPAS FC is a web-based rich client for the RPAS platform developed using ADF.RPAS is now moving to the cloud edition for RPAS developed using web-services. In this report, an overview is covered about the real time advantages and disadvantages of moving an existing application to the cloud. Also it discusses about how moving to includes many factors like Business Decision Model , Data Storage, Security etc. While the application moves to cloud, it needs a minimal human intervention in running and testing the application on cloud. Thus automating the manual functionalities of integration and testing along-with non-hindrance, cost-effective continuous delivery of the application is the major focus in cloud. Thus the report summons the implementation in automating the functionalities for cloud-friendly environment.