Abstract
The alignment of business processes and their supporting application software is a major concern during the initial software design phases. This paper proposes a design approach addressing this problem of business-software alignment. The approach takes an initial business model as a basis in deriving refined models that target a service-oriented software implementation. The approach explicitly identifies a software modeling level at which software modules are represented as services in a technology-platform-independent way. This model-driven service-oriented approach has the following properties: (i) there is a forced alignment (consistency) between business processes and supporting applications; (ii) changes in the business environment can be traced to the application and vice versa, via model relationships; (iii) the software modules modeled as services have a high degree of autonomy; (iv) migration to new technology platforms can be supported through the platform independent software model.
| Original language | Undefined |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering |
| Editors | W. Tsai, J. Chung, M. Younas |
| Place of Publication | Los Alamitos |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Pages | 86-94 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| ISBN (Print) | 0-7695-2645-4 |
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| Publication status | Published - 24 Oct 2006 |
Publication series
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| Publisher | IEEE Press |
| Number | 2 |
| Volume | 1 |
Keywords
- METIS-238230
- SCS-Services
- IR-57708
- EWI-7547
Cite this
Shishkov, B., van Sinderen, M. J., & Quartel, D. (2006). SOA-Driven Business-Software Alignment. In W. Tsai, J. Chung, & M. Younas (Eds.), Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (pp. 86-94). Los Alamitos: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEBE.2006.95