Business Application Design and Enterprise Service Design: A Comparison
Journal
International Journal of Services Sciences
ISSN
1753-1446
ISSN-Digital
1753-1454
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2008
Author(s)
Research Team
IWI1
Abstract
The ever growing complexity of information system (IS) landscapes is a transparency and simplification challenge by its own. When business requirements frequently change or when technical innovations are frequently implemented, IS agility has to be aimed at in addition to transparency and simplicity. Service orientation claims to support agility. An integrated methodology to service construction is needed which is based on an appropriate enterprise architecture framework, and which reflects the different life cycles on the various architectural layers. As a contribution towards service construction methodology, this paper compares enterprise service construction with the construction of conventional business applications in order to assess the (re-)usability of business application construction techniques for enterprise service construction. Based on an analysis of traditional business application design techniques, hypotheses for the design of enterprise services are developed. Five case studies are presented and analyzed which represent enterprise service design practices in large companies with heterogeneous IS landscapes. On the one hand, there is evidence that enterprise services are designed along the same guidelines which proved useful for traditional application development. On the other hand, there are indicators that the specific properties of enterprise services lead to adjusted design guidelines.
Language
English
HSG Classification
not classified
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
Inderscience Publ.
Publisher place
Olney, Bucks
Volume
1
Number
3/4
Start page
206
End page
224
Pages
19
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
213099