Foreword by SoEA4EE Organizers -- Service Oriented Enterprise Architecture for Enterprise Engineering

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Selmin Nurcan ◽  
Rainer Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Enterprise Engineering ◽  
Service Oriented

Model-Driven Applications

2014 ◽  
pp. 53-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tong-Ying Yu
Keyword(s):  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Evolutionary Model ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Enterprise Modeling ◽  
Enterprise Engineering ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Business Change ◽  
Enterprise Model ◽  
The Right

How to bridge the gap between business and Information Technology (IT) has always been a critical issue for both the developers and IT managers. The individualized, differentiated demands by different customers and situations, the constantly changing in both business and IT are great challenges to the applications for enterprises. In this chapter, the authors respectively discuss the left side (computer) in software engineering, with Object-Orientation (OO), Model-Driven Engineering (MDE), Domain-Driven Development (DDD), Agile, etc., and the right side (the business) in Enterprise Engineering (EE) with Enterprise Modeling (EM), and Enterprise Architecture (EA) of the gap. It is shown there are some fundamental problems, such as the transforming barrier between analysis and design model, the entanglement of business change and development process, and the limitation to the enterprise engineering approaches such as EA by IT. Our solution is concentrated on the middle, the inevitable model as a mediator between human, computer, and the real world. The authors introduce Model-Driven Application (MDApp), which is based on Model-Driven Mechanism (MDM), operated on the evolutionary model of the target thing at runtime; it is able to largely avoid the transforming barrier and remove the entanglement. Thus, the architecture for Enterprise Model Driven Application (EMDA) is emerged, which is able to strongly support EE and adapts to the business changing at runtime.

Service-Oriented Enterprise Architecture

2005 ◽  
pp. 132-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maarten W.A. Steen ◽  
Patrick Strating ◽  
Marc M. Lankhorst ◽  
Hugo W.L. ter Doest ◽  
Maria-Eugenia Iacob
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Service Orientation ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Service Concept ◽  
It Alignment ◽  
Business And It Alignment ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Oriented Approach

Service orientation is a new paradigm, not only for software engineering but also for the broader topic of enterprise architecture. This chapter studies the relevance and impact of the service concept and service orientation to the discipline of enterprise architecture. It provides ideas on how to set up a service-oriented enterprise architecture. It is argued that a service-oriented approach to enterprise architecture provides better handles for architectural alignment and business and IT alignment, in particular.

Towards a Virtual Enterprise Architecture for the Environmental Sector

2008 ◽  
pp. 368-378
Author(s):  
Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
Keyword(s):  
Information Management ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Virtual Enterprise ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Environmental Information ◽  
Management Ownership ◽  
Service Oriented

This chapter introduces a Virtual Enterprise architecture for environmental information management, integration and dissemination. On a daily basis, our knowledge related to ecological phenomena, the degradation of the natural environment and the sustainability of human activity impacts, is growing. As a consequence raises the need for effective environmental knowledge exchange and reuse. In this work, a solution among collaborating peers forming a Virtual Enterprise is investigated. Following an analysis of the main stakeholders, a service-oriented architecture is proposed. Technical implementation options, using web-services or software agents, are considered and issues related to environmental information management, ownership and standardization are discussed.

Event-Driven Service-Oriented Architectures for E-Business

2010 ◽  
pp. 952-962
Author(s):  
Olga Levina ◽  
Vladimir Stantchev
Keyword(s):  
Distributed System ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Reference Architecture ◽  
Service Oriented Architectures ◽  
Application Systems ◽  
Event Driven ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Definition Of

E-Business research and practice can be situated on following multiple levels: applications, technological issues, support and implementation (Ngai and Wat 2002). Here we consider technological components for realizing business processes and discuss their foundation architecture for technological enabling. The article provides an introduction to the terms, techniques and realization issues for eventdriven and service-oriented architectures. We begin with a definition of terms and propose a reference architecture for an event-driven service-oriented architecture (EDSOA). Possible applications in the area of E-Business and solution guidelines are considered in the second part of the article. Service-oriented Architectures (SOA) have gained momentum since their introduction in the last years. Seen as an approach to integrate heterogeneous applications within an enterprise architecture they are also used to design flexible and adaptable business processes. An SOA is designed as a distributed system architecture providing a good integration possibility of already existing application systems. Furthermore, SOA is mostly suitable for complex and large system landscapes.

Convergence of Interoperability of Cloud Computing, Service Oriented Architecture and Enterprise Architecture

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-51
Author(s):  
Susan Sutherland
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Cloud Computing Service ◽  
Architectural Model ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
State Of Art ◽  
Dynamic Links

The research identifies the gap that there is a convergence of interoperability of Cloud Computing (CC), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Architecture (EA). Furthermore, it outlines the existing non dynamic links between EA and SOA that are currently practiced in the industry and confirmed by scholarly articles; and provides a state of art of the link that could exist in practice between cloud computing and SOA as researched from the published scholarly material. This researched paper also refers to the planned research to test this theory first by developing a logical architectural model of such a feasibility followed by a Proof of Concept

Information Technology as a Service

2011 ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin G. Qiu
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Enterprise Engineering ◽  
Service Computing ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
The World ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
World Class ◽  
Shift Gears

In this information era, both business and living communities are truly IT driven and service oriented. As the globalization of the world economy accelerates with the fast advance of networking and computing technologies, IT plays a more and more critical role in assuring real-time collaborations for delivering needs across the world. Nowadays, world-class enterprises are eagerly embracing service-led business models aimed at creating highly profitable service-oriented businesses. They take advantage of their own years of experience and unique marketing, engineering, and application expertise and shift gears toward creating superior outcomes to best meet their customers’ needs in order to stay competitive. IT has been considered as one of the high-value services areas. In this chapter, the discussion will focus on IT as a service. We present IT development, research, and outsourcing as a knowledge service; on the other hand, we argue that IT as a service helps enterprises align their business operations, workforce, and technologies to maximize their profits by continuously improving their performance. Numerous research and development aspects of service-enterprise engineering from a business perspective will be briefly explored, and then computing methodologies and technologies to enable adaptive enterprise service computing in support of service-enterprise engineering will be simply studied and analyzed. Finally, future development and research avenues in this emerging interdisciplinary field will also be highlighted.

Transitioning Business Processes to a Collaborative Business Environment with Mobility

2009 ◽  
pp. 73-82
Author(s):  
Bhuvan Unhelkar ◽  
Amit Tiwary ◽  
Abbass Ghanbary
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Software Applications ◽  
Comprehensive Service ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Web Based System

Web Services (WS) technologies create the potential for an organization to collaborate with partners and customers by enabling its software applications to transact over the Internet. This collaboration is achieved by carefully incorporating Web Services in the organization’s software applications, resulting in comprehensive Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) for the enterprise. This incorporation of WS-enabled applications and components in the organization’s overall enterprise architecture requires understanding of the service at three interrelated yet distinct layers: policies, activities, and standards. This chapter describes how the existing business processes of an organization are transitioned in to collaborative business processes that would result in a Collaborative Web- Based System (CWBS). The ideas presented in this chapter have been validated through an action-research carried out by the authors in a large energy supplier organization in Melbourne, Australia.

Information Technology as a Service

2009 ◽  
pp. 261-278
Author(s):  
Robin G. Qiu
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Enterprise Engineering ◽  
Service Computing ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
The World ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
World Class ◽  
Shift Gears

In this information era, both business and living communities are truly IT driven and service oriented. As the globalization of the world economy accelerates with the fast advance of networking and computing technologies, IT plays a more and more critical role in assuring real-time collaborations for delivering needs across the world. Nowadays, world-class enterprises are eagerly embracing service-led business models aimed at creating highly profitable service-oriented businesses. They take advantage of their own years of experience and unique marketing, engineering, and application expertise and shift gears toward creating superior outcomes to best meet their customers’ needs in order to stay competitive. IT has been considered as one of the high-value services areas. In this chapter, the discussion will focus on IT as a service. We present IT development, research, and outsourcing as a knowledge service; on the other hand, we argue that IT as a service helps enterprises align their business operations, workforce, and technologies to maximize their profits by continuously improving their performance. Numerous research and development aspects of service-enterprise engineering from a business perspective will be briefly explored, and then computing methodologies and technologies to enable adaptive enterprise service computing in support of service-enterprise engineering will be simply studied and analyzed. Finally, future development and research avenues in this emerging interdisciplinary field will also be highlighted.

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