SOBA Fabric: a framework for Business Services Networks Due to copyright restrictions full text for this article is not available
Matt Sanchez, Abhoy Bhaktwatsalam, Akshay Sabhikhi, Jay M. Tenenbaum, Manoj Saxena · 2005
We introduce SOBA (Service Oriented Business Applications) Fabric, an architectural framework for Business Services Networks (BSN). BSNs extend the enterprise service bus concept beyond the boundaries of a single enterprise, enabling companies to build on each other's applications and create new loosely-coupled, network-centric business models. SOBA Fabric facilitates dynamic integration of people, processes, and information across business and technology boundaries by providing: 1) Dynamic provisioning and service personalization so that subscribers can quickly customize a business process to work with their systems and processes; 2) Industry-specific Service Level Agreements; 3) An industry-specific business services catalog supporting dynamic discovery and composition; 4) Business Process Management tools interface tailored to industry requirements; and 5) Visibility and exception handling across the BSN. Most importantly, SOBA Fabric provides industry-specific semantic dial tones that enable applications to plug and play at the business process level, using standardized XML business vocabularies. We describe the SOBA Architecture and present a case study from a successful deployment in the Insurance sector.