Chapter 4. Process-driven Service Design

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a fundamental building block of a successful business process-driven architecture. To build agility and business alignment into our processes, we must ensure that the functionality that the processes implement is also designed in an agile, modular, and business-aligned fashion.

The IT architectures of many organizations have grown in an organic way through the adoption of new packaged applications (both commodity applications and industry-specific applications), custom-built applications in areas of differentiation, and hosted partner or cloud services. Integration of these systems becomes an increasing challenge with the divergence of the definition of business terms, ...

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