The Service-Oriented Enterprise: Learn Enterprise Architecture and Its Viable Services

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T. GravesThe Service-Oriented Enterprisehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9189-4_7

7. Principles – Coordination Services

Tom Graves¹  

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Eaglehawk, VIC, Australia

 

In the service-oriented enterprise, coordination-services create and maintain relationships across the enterprise. Without them, the enterprise would literally fall apart, as there would be nothing to hold the various functional silos together as an integrated whole.

Coordination-services provide horizontal links that bridge the gaps – or chasms – between the silos. Although always founded in relationships of some kind, some form of cross-link between one thing or function or person and the next, ...