Principles for Implementing a Service-Oriented Enterprise Architecture

This article provides four key principles and actions an organization can undertake for implementing a Service-Oriented Enterprise Architecture (SOEA). SOEA adopts the concepts used in enterprise architecture and service-oriented systems design and adapts them to the enterprise level using service-oriented computing (SOC). A SOEA should provide the guidance to enterprise transformation of the organizational, business process management/modeling and reengineering, enterprise resources and information technology (IT) systems and application development in support of the organization. Although technical in nature, the SOEA form of architecture does not focus solely on network (i.e. infrastructure, core services), information (i.e. data, enabling services), and resources (i.e. providers and consumers of services and data) architectural views.

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