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Managing SOA through Business Services - a business-oriented approach to service-oriented architectures

Dirk Werth; Katrina Leyking; Florian Dreifus; Jörg Ziemann; Andreas Martin
In: Christian Zirpins; George Feuerlicht (Hrsg.). Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Engineering Service-Oriented Applications: Design and Composition. International Workshop on Engineering Service-Oriented Applications: Design and Composition (WESOA-06), located at 4th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC-2006), December 4, Chicago, IL, USA, Pages 3-13, Springer, 12/2006.

Abstract

The idea of more flexible, modular system structures thanks to web service interfaces feed expectations towards a novel degree of business agility. However, the challenge of the information system community consists in developing methods and techniques to vest service orientation with business concepts that deploy a SOA according to organisational requirements. This paper takles this challenge by introducing Business Service Management as an interdisciplinary discipline for businee- driven deployment of SOA. It approaches this ambitious objective by utilizing business processes as semi- formalized representations of an enterprise`s characteristics and requirements towards IT.