We name this matching process between a business
domain and a service ???granularity alignment??? (to read more about granularity alignment refer to
the Integration with Business Hierarchies section).
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Integration
Structures
Geographic
Boundaries
Distribution
Structures
Control
Methods
EXHIBIT 10.1 BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE
PERSPECTIVE STRUCTURAL
INTEGRATION MODEL
BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION MODEL
The structural integration model offers various methods to enable proper integration of services
with various business domains. Work with domains and treat them as units of analysis during
the integration process. Conceive of these domains as business containers that the services must
reside in. Imagine that the service-oriented integration process is about a matter of finding the
right business frameworks for services to operate within. The contextual perspectives (discussed
in Chapter 9) will enable identification of the affiliation of services with business models and
strategies. The structural formations, however, will physically host the services and integrate them
in a specific business physical operating environment.
So, work with domains and treat them as the pillars of the structural integration process.
What are these foundations? What are the business formations that enable proper alignment of
services with business domains? There are four major components of the service-oriented business
integration structural model, each of which presents business domains from a different formation
perspective as depicted in Exhibit 10.
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