  The cloud computing literature provides various ways to utilise cloud
services, each with a different viewpoint, focus, and mostly using
heterogeneous technical-centric terms. This hinders efficient and consistent
knowledge flow across the community. Little, if any, research has aimed on
developing an integrated process model which captures core domain concepts and
ties them together to provide an overarching view of migrating legacy systems
to cloud platforms that is customisable for a given context. We adopt design
science research guidelines in which we use a metamodeling approach to develop
a generic process model and then evaluate and refine the model through three
case studies and domain expert reviews. This research benefits academics and
practitioners alike by underpinning a substrate for constructing,
standardising, maintaining, and sharing bespoke cloud migration models that can
be applied to given cloud adoption scenarios.
