Authors:
Zheng Li
1
;
He Zhang
2
and
Liam O'Brien
3
Affiliations:
1
School of Computer Science and ANU and NICTA, Australia
;
2
School of Computer Science and Engineering and UNSW and NICTA, Australia
;
3
School of Computer Science and ANU and CSIRO, Australia
Keyword(s):
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), SOA implementation, Organization theory, Organization design, Strategy.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Communication and Software Technologies and Architectures
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Languages, Tools and Architectures
;
Model-Driven Software Development
;
Service-Oriented Architectures
;
Service-Oriented Software Engineering and Management
;
Software Engineering
;
Technology Platforms
Abstract:
Benefiting from the technology based strategies, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been able to achieve the general goals such as agility, flexibility, reusability and efficiency. Nevertheless, technical conditions alone cannot guarantee successful SOA implementations. As a valuable and necessary supplement, the space of technology independent strategies should also be explored. Through treating SOA system as an instance of organization and identifying the common ground on the similar process of SOA implementation and organization design, this paper uses existing work in organization theory area to inspire the research into technology independent strategies of SOA implementation. As a result, four preliminary strategies that can be applied to organizational area we identify to support SOA implementations. Furthermore, the novel methodology of investigating technology independent strategies for implementing SOA is revealed, which encourages interdisciplinary research across serv
ice-oriented computing and organization theory.
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