Deriving service variants from business process specifications
Karthikeyan Ponnalagu, Nanjangud C. Narendra · 2008
Software service organizations typically tend to develop custom solutions upon entry to a project engagement. This is not a scalable proposition. Today, driven by the need for enhancing profitability, reuse of existing assets across customer engagements is a more viable strategy. This is leading to the transformation of software services organizations from a labor-based to an asset-based model. In the enterprise application development domain, business processes are used to model the dynamic behavior of enterprise applications. Hence one highly prevalent asset-based approach in this domain is to build a scalable portfolio of services using a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach. This provides a mechanism for representing business processes as a set of business-aligned, loosely-coupled services that can be iteratively composed and re-composed to create loosely coupled composite applications that mirror and support business processes.