Statistics: (2205 Views) (0 Comments) Print Posted: Sunday, June 01, 2008 Categories: Business Process Management (BPM), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

In the articles leading up to this final installment in our series, we established relevant business service models and service delivery strategies. These two important parts of an SOA project tie into the first of two processes responsible for producing the actual services. This process is called service-oriented analysis and it represents an important, initial lifecycle phase that requires the coordinated collaboration of business analysts and technology architects.

Different organizations have adopted different approaches to analyzing business automation problems and developing corresponding solutions. Years of effort and documentation will often have been invested into well-established processes and modeling deliverables.

The process described here is not intended to supplant existing procedures. Instead, it proposes a set of supplementary steps that help shape the organizational automation logic in preparation for the service-oriented design processes. These steps raise issues that combine the use of service models, service-orientation principles and other key considerations into a preliminary definition of services. 

Author: Thomas Erl