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human qualities. This ???literate modeling??? approach obviously enhances the strategies that are
pursued during business initiatives and projects.
ORGANIZATIONAL SERVICE-ORIENTED SOFTWARE ASSETS
The service-oriented modeling paradigm regards all organizational software assets as candidates
for modeling activities. We not only conceive them as our service-oriented modeling elements,
meaning services, but we also evaluate them based on their contribution to a service-oriented
environment, in terms of integration, collaboration, reusability, and consumption capabilities.
These assets are also subjected to the modeling discipline activities depicted throughout this
book. They are the enduring artifacts of the service-oriented modeling process and are regarded
as units of concern, discovery, analysis, design, and architecture in a business initiative or a
service-oriented project. Exhibit 1.2 illustrates the various service-oriented software assets that
can be involved in providing solutions to organizational concerns: concepts, foundation software,
legacy software, repositories, and utility software.
ORGANIZATIONAL CONCEPTS. Business or technical concepts embody an organization??™s formalized
ideas, which are regarded as components of propositions to organizational concerns.
These abstractions typically capture enterprise problems and offer remedies to alleviate negative
effects on business execution.
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