Because Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is one of the hottest topics that is currently gaining momentum, and the number of its adopters (both business and IT executives) is increasing in a tremendous manner, it is really a must to enlist important aspects related to it in order to allow these adopters to better understand the role that it can play in both software and business markets. Thes...

The evolution of software engineering has passed through various paradigms; including structured programming, object oriented programming, component-based approaches and in recent years service-oriented computing. One of the key activities needed to develop a quality service oriented solution is the specification of service model. The majority of existing methods for service model specification...

The application of ontologies (semantic) to enhance any existing or proposed Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) based software architecture has various levels of use in terms of intra and inter enterprise integration. The use of ontologies in an architectural design and development methodology of any service-oriented enterprise software holds the key to offer a dynamic, flexible and scalable s...

The flexibility and reusability afforded by service-oriented architectures seems to be of singular applicability to the management of virtual enterprises. In this paper we describe the architecture of the SOAVE platform: a Service-Oriented Architecture for Virtual Enterprises. The platform provides the members of a networked community with a set of tools with which they can collaborate on the p...

In this article we review the metaphor of service-oriented architecture for enterprise computing. In typical definitions service-oriented architecture appears as a single message and a consistent roadmap for building flexible software system landscapes. But it is not. Different communities have elaborated different SOA (service-oriented architecture) concepts to address different problem areas,...

The SOA Innovation Lab has investigated the use of standard software packages in a service-oriented context. As a result, a method for developing a service-oriented enterprise architecture with custom and standard software has been obtained. It starts on enterprise level with the identification of domains where both the SOA paradigm and standard software are of relevance. Here SOA capabilities ...

To ensure the operability and reliability of large scale Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP) and enterprise services, a peak-load oriented hardware sizing is often used, which results in low average utilization. The evaluation of historical load data revealed that many applications show cyclical resource consumption. The identification of load patterns can be used for static as well as d...

Nowadays, Enterprise Information Systems are based on TPS, MIS, and DSS and organizations are maturing to make the baselines of their Business, Enterprise, and Technology architectures based on the Service Oriented Strategies and Architectures (SOSA). The traditional EIS frameworks make their Business, Enterprise, and Technology baselines on the Business Processes or Business Usecases and they ...

The SOA Innovation Lab has investigated the use of standard software packages in a service-oriented context. As a result, we present a holistic approach for developing a service-oriented enterprise architecture with custom and standard software packages. It starts on enterprise level with the identification of domains where both the SOA paradigm and standard software are of relevance. Here SOA ...

This paper defines a three-dimensional architectural framework, named Technology and Information Platform (TIP), to effectively handle the architecture complexity and manage the architectural assets of enterprise information systems in a service-oriented paradigm. This comprehensive model is composed of a Generic Architecture Stack (GAS) comprising a stack of architecture layers, and the contex...