This
reflects the management perspective, checks and balances, control of a modeling environment,
and modeling discipline best practices and standards.
The service-oriented modeling paradigm supports three major modeling environments:
conceptual, analysis, and logical , as depicted in Exhibit 1.15. Note that each of these frameworks
Conceptual
Environment
Analysis
Environment
Logical
Environment
Service
Conceptualization
Discipline
Service
Discovery
and
Analysis
Discipline
Service
Design
Discipline
Conceptual
Architecture
Discipline
Business
Integration
Discipline
Logical
Architecture
Discipline
EXHIBIT 1.15 MODELING ENVIRONMENTS AND THEIR CORRESPONDING DISCIPLINES
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also facilitates their corresponding modeling discipline activities. For example, the conceptual
modeling environment provides a supporting framework for the discovery of conceptual services
when one pursues the service conceptualization discipline. In the same fashion, the analysis
environment facilitates all service discovery and analysis and business integration discipline
tasks.
CONCEPTUAL ENVIRONMENT. An established methodology that can facilitate the formalization
of undocumented ideas and propose solutions to enterprise concerns is a necessity for most
organizations. A conceptual environment provides a management framework that promotes proper
analysis of the problem domain and business and technical requirements and also assists with documenting
solution propositions.
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