Concepts for Service-Oriented Business Thinking

  • Authors:
  • Nitin Nayak;Anil Nigam;Jorge Sanz;David Marston;David Flaxer

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights,NY;IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights,NY;IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose CA;IBM Cambridge Research Center, One Rogers St, Cambridge MA;IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY

  • Venue:
  • SCC '06 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Services Computing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

As businesses scramble to adopt and implement Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) it is imperative that service-oriented thinking become an integral part of the business itself. We motivate the key concepts for service-oriented business thinking through a range of examples that give a flavor of a range of businesses. In this paper we establish three key concepts - Service Agreement, Service Transaction and Service Function. These concepts are discussed in depth and are related to our ongoing work in the area of modeling business services.