An Approach to the Analysis and Evaluation of an Enterprise Service Ecosystem
Key: RSE+07-2
Author: Nicolas Repp, Stefan Schulte, Julian Eckert, Rainer Berbner, Ralf Steinmetz
Date: July 2007
Kind: In proceedings
Publisher: INSTICC Press
Book title: Proceedings of the ICSOFT'07 Workshop on Architectures, Concepts and Technologies for Service Oriented Computing
Abstract: Currently, the implementation of service-oriented concepts is one of the main activities of many IT and business departments throughout enterprises of various industries. Service-orientation as a concept is no novelty for many enterprises - many software systems and components offering technical and business functionality do comply with service-oriented principles. Nevertheless, the analysis, evaluation, and integration of existing services are often neglected in process models describing the implementation of service-oriented concepts. This paper describes an approach to the analysis and evaluation of those existing services to become part of the enterprise service ecosystem, which we call service inventory. The service inventory is realized as a generic extension to existing systems development methodologies, which allows its integration into the already used service-oriented methodology. The service inventory approach is based on Service-oriented Architecture research, principles from systems analysis and design, as well as on auditing principles.

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