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Transforming Inter-Organizational Business Processes Into Service-Oriented Architectures

Overview Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) promise flexible process integration in heterogeneous environments. Since services encapsulate application functionality according to business processes, the understanding of processes is a prerequisite for implementing an SOA. Existing SOA development approaches tend to focus on enterprise application integration scenarios rather than on business-to-business scenarios. Due to the increasing heterogeneity of applications in an inter-organizational context, significant benefits can be expected when implementing SOAs for business-to-business integration. However, a systematic approach to analyzing inter-organizational business processes and transforming them into SOAs is still missing. This paper presents a method for modeling inter-organizational processes and deriving business services in three steps. The applicability of this method is shown for a specific business-to-business scenario in the automotive industry.

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Publisher	University of St. Gallen	File Format	PDF
Date Published	December 2006
Format	White Papers
Topics	Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture, Application Development

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