??? Analysis environment. Remember, some activities that are pursued in the analysis environment
are also regarded as a part of the abstraction practice, as is noted in Exhibit 1.16.
The abstraction practice advocates that we pursue conceptualization activities and that
we also identify, type, profile, and evaluate services by complying with service-oriented
discovery and analysis disciplines, which are facilitated by the analysis environment. Furthermore,
some of the service-oriented business integration discipline activities also fall
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within the abstraction practice domain. Here we are commissioned to align our services
with business strategies and structures such as geographic locations and even management
structure.
REALIZATION PRACTICE. The realization practice typically starts when the abstraction practice
runs its course, during which most ideas have been formalized and established as organizational
concepts. These abstractions then transform into more tangible software entities that are regarded
as logical units of analysis. The realization practice addresses these tangibility aspects that are
articulated by the logical design of services, such as message exchange patterns, business or
technological functionality, service structure, and the overall workflow and process orchestration.
The questions that are typically asked during the realization process are:
??? What is the process of transforming an analysis service to a design service?
??? What does a logical design process entail?; What is a logical architecture?
??? Who is involved?
The realization practice obviously overlaps with the abstraction practice because of some
process commonalities that are typically pursued in both domains.
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