Authors:
Markus Heller
and
Matthias Allgaier
Affiliation:
SAP Research, Germany
Keyword(s):
Service Integration, Service Ecosystems, Business Application Extensibility, SOA, Web Services.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Cloud Computing
;
Collaboration and e-Services
;
Communication and Software Infrastructure
;
Communication and Software Technologies and Architectures
;
Data Engineering
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Architecture
;
Enterprise Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Future Directions
;
Integration of Data Warehousing and Data Mining
;
Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Languages, Tools and Architectures
;
Mobile Software and Services
;
Model-Driven Software Development
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Other Areas of Application
;
Service-Oriented Architectures
;
Services Science
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Software Engineering
;
Software Engineering Methods and Techniques
;
Symbolic Systems
;
System Architectures
;
Technology Platforms
;
Telecommunications
;
Web Services
;
Wireless Information Networks and Systems
Abstract:
The integration of services into business applications within enterprise services is needed in on-premise settings as well as in upcoming on-demand enterprise settings. Today, it is typically performed in manual integration projects by highly skilled integration experts on the consumer side. As consumers demand flexible and adaptable enterprise systems with lower total cost of ownership (TCO), enterprise system vendors need to provide efficient mechanisms to integrate services within business applications. For this less explored but promising area of service-oriented architecture (SOA) research, a service integration framework with a pattern-based modeling approach is presented that allows for the integration of services into business applications at a later stage in the software-lifecycle - especially after shipment.