  Business Process Management (BPM) in the cloud is focused on how to provide
Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) and also implementing the Elastic
Business Process Management (eBPM). These approaches are finding models,
techniques and methodologies to increase the BPM adoption in the cloud. The
objective on this research is to carry out a literature review about the state
of the art of Business Process Management in the cloud, identify categories and
analyze what the approach on eBPM researches and BPaaS researches is. The
method used is the systematic literature review and the researches evolution
over the time will be categorized and analyzed using a timeline and cumulative
charts. The results show that the Business Process enactment is the main
approach focused on eBPM researches, whereas the researches on BPaaS are
focused on a greater number of categories. The conclusion of this research is
that the authors could not identify any systems supporting the eBPM and BPaaS
approaches at the same time and they introduce the definition of a new approach
called Elastic Business Process Management as a Service (eBPMaaS)
