An Approach to the Analysis and Evaluation of an Enterprise Service Ecosystem

Nicolas Repp, Stefan Schulte, Julian Eckert, Rainer Berbner, Ralf Steinmetz

2007

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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Repp N., Schulte S., Eckert J., Berbner R. and Steinmetz R. (2007). An Approach to the Analysis and Evaluation of an Enterprise Service Ecosystem . In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Architectures, Concepts and Technologies for Service Oriented Computing - Volume 1: ACT4SOC, (ICSOFT 2007) ISBN 978-989-8111-08-1, pages 42-51. DOI: 10.5220/0001348300420051


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@conference{act4soc07,
author={Nicolas Repp and Stefan Schulte and Julian Eckert and Rainer Berbner and Ralf Steinmetz},
title={An Approach to the Analysis and Evaluation of an Enterprise Service Ecosystem},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Architectures, Concepts and Technologies for Service Oriented Computing - Volume 1: ACT4SOC, (ICSOFT 2007)},
year={2007},
pages={42-51},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001348300420051},
isbn={978-989-8111-08-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Architectures, Concepts and Technologies for Service Oriented Computing - Volume 1: ACT4SOC, (ICSOFT 2007)
TI - An Approach to the Analysis and Evaluation of an Enterprise Service Ecosystem
SN - 978-989-8111-08-1
AU - Repp N.
AU - Schulte S.
AU - Eckert J.
AU - Berbner R.
AU - Steinmetz R.
PY - 2007
SP - 42
EP - 51
DO - 10.5220/0001348300420051