The User-centric Soa and Its Impacts on Other Disciplines

The end user service development known as the user-centric SOA emerged as a new approach that allows giving the end user the ability to create on the fly his own applications that meet a situational need. In fact, the classical SOA was designed for developers and is characterized by a heavy technical stack which is out of reach of end users. The user-centric SOA approach brings great added value taking advantage from the creativity and the participation of end users; furthermore, it is becoming a key factor of competitiveness within enterprises and is influencing other disciplines. The Cloud Computing and the Enterprise Architecture are two fields that captured growing attention in recent years and that can gain maturity and efficiency from adopting and embracing the user-centric SOA approach. In this paper, we present the usercentric SOA approach and we give an overview of our solution for an efficient user-centric services creation. Then we study the impact of the user-centric SOA on the Cloud Computing and Enterprise Architecture fields.