To accomplish this task, all service-oriented assets that participate in a
solution are regarded as analysis services and engage in three service-oriented discovery and
analysis activities, as depicted in Exhibit 1.11: service typing and profiling, service analysis, and
service analysis modeling. Chapters 6, 7, and 8 discuss these processes in detail and elaborate on
various discovery and analysis best practices.
Service Typing and Profiling. To be able to efficiently manage an organizational service portfolio
and identify a service??™s potential contribution to a solution??”either a conceptual or a legacy
asset??”we should be engaged in a service classification process. This service typing activity
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Service-Oriented Discovery and Analysis Activities
Service Typing
and
Profiling
Service
Analysis
Service
Analysis
Modeling
EXHIBIT 1.11 SERVICE-ORIENTED DISCOVERY AND ANALYSIS MODELING PROCESS
enables us to label a service based on its organizational identity and business or technological
context, its internal structure, and its origin. The information that is collected by this process will
facilitate the establishment of a service profile that can be utilized in future projects and business
ventures.
Service Analysis. The service-oriented analysis process is the next activity that we need to
pursue. Here we determine whether a service is viable to participate in the solution proposition.
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