What's in a service?

  • Authors:
  • Michael P. Papazoglou

  • Affiliations:
  • INFOLAB, Tilburg University, Dept. of Information Systems and Management, Tilburg, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • ECSA'07 Proceedings of the First European conference on Software Architecture
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Automated services help enterprises create new value from reuse of software and resources and achieve new levels of agility through greater flexibility and lower cost structures. As services come in many flavors and guises they have differing characteristics. In this paper we describe the most necessary aspects and features of automated services. We also focus on the interplay of SOAs and Business Process Management technologies and argue that the key enablers for Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) should focus on four inter-related elements: engineering and planning the SOA, SOA implementation, SOA management and monitoring and SOA governance.