IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC'06)
Concepts for Service-Oriented Business Thinking
Chicago, Illinois
September 18-September 22
ISBN: 0-7695-2670-5
Nitin Nayak, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights,NY
Anil Nigam, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights,NY
Jorge Sanz, IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose CA
David Marston, IBM Cambridge Research Center, One Rogers St, Cambridge MA
David Flaxer, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
As businesses scramble to adopt and implement Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) it is imperative that service-oriented thinking become an integral part of the business itself. We motivate the key concepts for service-oriented business thinking through a range of examples that give a flavor of a range of businesses. In this paper we establish three key concepts - Service Agreement, Service Transaction and Service Function. These concepts are discussed in depth and are related to our ongoing work in the area of modeling business services.
Index Terms:
service-oriented business, service-oriented architecture, service agreement, service transaction, service function, unified service model
Citation:
Nitin Nayak, Anil Nigam, Jorge Sanz, David Marston, David Flaxer, "Concepts for Service-Oriented Business Thinking," scc, pp.357-364, IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC'06), 2006