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D. R. BangerEnterprise Systems Architecturehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8646-3_6

6. Layer 3: Applications

Daljit Roy Banger1  
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London, UK
 

The application layer represents the attributes, taxonomy, and portfolio of actual computer programs that provide digital enablement for delivering the capabilities, workflow, and services via the service and process layers to the BOM.

The process layer controls the workflows that leverage one or many services that invoke an application or segment of its functionality, a module, a component, or simply an API call that on processing returns data or results up through the chain to the controlling workflow process. ...

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