Communications of the ACM - Services science
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For Business Architecture (BA) to provide the intended benefits there should be considerable focus on the components that deliver the real architectural value. Current trends focus on the business process component of Business Architecture and tend to consider BPM as an architectural style for its modeling. As the major concern of enterprises is value creation to customers in terms of services, considering business processes as a hub mixes the concerns of service specifications and how it is provided. For Business Architecture to serve the generation of subsequent artifacts in the Enterprise Architecture (EA), we suggest that business services should be the focal point and appropriate architectural style should be adopted. This paper presents methodologies we developed adopting the SOA architectural style to model business services, and created Service Oriented Business Service Model (SOBSM) and applied it on the portfolio of business services standardized across a given enterprise ecosystem. As well, we suggest that the resulting SOBSM be used for generating the subsequent components of the EA spectrum.