What is business architecture and how can it facilitate service-oriented business integration
activities? Business architecture is simply organizational best practices and standards that describe
what type of firm-wide architectures must exist for an enterprise to promote its business and
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Service-Oriented Business Integration Activities
Contextual
Business
Integration
Structural
Business
Integration
Business
Integration
Modeling
EXHIBIT 1.12 SERVICE-ORIENTED BUSINESS INTEGRATION MODELING PROCESS
increase revenue. It is ???architecture about architectures.??? This is a business framework that not
only depicts high-level business requirements but also identifies business functions, activities,
and processes, along with business domains such as lines of business, geographic locations, and
management control structure.
Exhibit 1.12 illustrates the three major activities that make up the service-oriented business
integration process: contextual business integration, structural business integration, and business
integration modeling. We regard all service-oriented assets that participate in a business integration
venture as analysis services. Readers can learn more about these mechanisms and their best
practices in Chapters 9, 10, and 11, which elaborate on service-oriented business integration
process and modeling techniques.
Contextual and Structural Business Integration.
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