Engineering Service Oriented Systems: A Model Driven Approach

Despite a global economic recession and the burst of the e-commerce bubble, today’s organizations are realizing the necessity of e-services. In today’s ever-changing economy, businesses are not only increasingly becoming service-oriented – even those organizations that have traditionally offered tangible products are now offering services to complement their product (i.e., car manufacturers offering car servicing as well as lucrative financial services to complement their vehicle sales), they are also being conducted electronically (e-businesses) by providing or supporting these services using the Internet. As such, these service-centered or service-offering organizations need to migrate their traditional services to an electronic environment, thus providing electronic services (e-services). The move to e-services is not a new concept, but the IT infrastructure has been lagging to support these endeavors. Services must be a core component of a company’s supporting IT infrastructure. This has been a challenge for many organizations over the past decade. Without a symbiotic relationship between IT and business teams, organizations have been relying on outsourcing and mass-produced, costly-to-modify software products that have been providing less then optimal productivity and efficiency. As a result, organizations have not been able to benefit from rapid technological evolutions and gain competitive advantage in service-oriented environments. Engineering Service oriented Systems: A Model driven Approach