Implementation of Composable Enterprise in an Evolutionary Way Through Holistic Business-IT Delivery of Business Initiatives: Real Industry Use Case

Ivka Ivas

2024

Abstract

Service composability, introduced by service-oriented architecture (SOA), is a design principle that encourages the design of reusable services that themselves also consist of reusable services. In domain driven design (DDD), which inspired microservice architectures, the scope of composable service design is interpreted as a software solution domain, while the problem domain lies in the detached business world. This results in IT solutions that are often redundant at the enterprise level or tend to be composable only within a specific enterprise IT ecosystem as a result of the design without understanding the business domain or how the new solution fits into the overall delivery and enterprise architecture. On the other hand, it is not uncommon for company´s "business", motivated by revenue increase, to push frequent deliveries of business changes, putting pressure on company´s IT to implement quick fix solutions that only solve immediate business problems. All this leads to inconsistent and redundant software systems that increase the complexity of the organization and result in higher maintenance costs and less flexibility in implementing future changes. As a solution, this paper proposes Composable Enterprise, a business-IT approach for architecting the enterprise that introduces Business Composability and a holistic understanding of the enterprise. Business Composability is a business-IT-aligned service abstraction that starts with the notion of first applying service composability to business assets (business capabilities) to achieve the scale and pace required to realize business changes. The purpose of this paper is to provide a methodology for implementing Composable Enterprise in large, complex organisations, not as a massive, enterprise-wide rationalization and consolidation initiative, but in an evolutionary way through the joint and holistic business-IT delivery of business initiatives. The application of the proposed methodology is illustrated using a real-industry use case.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ivas I. (2024). Implementation of Composable Enterprise in an Evolutionary Way Through Holistic Business-IT Delivery of Business Initiatives: Real Industry Use Case. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS; ISBN 978-989-758-692-7, SciTePress, pages 397-408. DOI: 10.5220/0012728400003690

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis24,
author={Ivka Ivas},
title={Implementation of Composable Enterprise in an Evolutionary Way Through Holistic Business-IT Delivery of Business Initiatives: Real Industry Use Case},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS},
year={2024},
pages={397-408},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012728400003690},
isbn={978-989-758-692-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS
TI - Implementation of Composable Enterprise in an Evolutionary Way Through Holistic Business-IT Delivery of Business Initiatives: Real Industry Use Case
SN - 978-989-758-692-7
AU - Ivas I.
PY - 2024
SP - 397
EP - 408
DO - 10.5220/0012728400003690
PB - SciTePress