| Title: |
Architectural Discovery for the Service-Based Business |
| Author: |
Richard Veryard |
| Publication Date: |
16 February 2005 |
| Report Type: |
Journal |
| Report Class: |
Best Practice |
| Abstract: |
The Service-Based Business is a system of systems, with certain architectural properties. At the highest level of analysis this includes both software systems and broader business/organizational systems. The transition to the Service-Based Business is an architectural process, involving structural change to both software technology and business organization. In this article, we outline an architectural approach for this transition. |
| Backgrounder: |
The primary goal of Service Orientated Architecture is of course to introduce fundamental change into systems design practice, such that the delivered system is inherently adaptable. However if we are not very careful we will over sell this idea to line of business managers, who will infer that systems have become infinitely adaptable and that their responsibility for good business design is in less critical in the wider scheme of things.
In developing SOA methodologies therefore we need to be vigilant to ensure that once again the IT tail does not wag the business dog! It would be all too easy to refine the essentials of the SOA into domains, processes, procedures, rules, contracts, obligations and so on, and to take a conventional approach to “requirements definition”. However we must reject this simple path, and search for mechanisms and techniques that allow us to guide business understanding and design in such a manner that the business embraces service orientation in an appropriate manner – that guides the adoption of service based principles and the creation of suitable systems, information structures and processes.
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| Report Size: |
7 Pages |
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