Migrating social business process to SOA
Amjed Al-Thuhli, Mohammed Al-Badawi, Youcef Baghdadi, Abdullah Al-Hamdani · 2015
SOA enables business processes (BPs) to be available in form of service. In today world, BP involves human social interactions as part of the business requirements. These interactions are performed through corporate tools running inside the organization called "Enterprise Social Networking" (ESN). Business and IT people depend on these tools to reshape the organization BPs as services. However, most of these tools are monolithic packages, where business and IT people cannot utilize embedded data. In this paper, we define an approach to reengineer the ESN and extract new social-web services that are loosely coupled, discoverable and reusable by other SOA application. This will enable organizations to provide social BPs as services to facilitate partners and customers' collaboration and participation without replacing their legacy applications. This approach will be evaluated by a use case and in future by a prototype simulation.