214 Ch. 11 Service-Oriented Business Integration Modeling
Business Domain Contextual Perspective Business Tier
Atomic
Service
Composite
Service
Service
Cluster
Business
Architecture
Integration
Elements
Service-Oriented
Software Assets
EXHIBIT 11.2 BUSINESS INTEGRATION ASSET NOTATIONS
INTEGRATION OPERATIONS NOTATION. There are six integration symbols that should be
employed to describe a service-oriented business integration initiative. These activities should be
depicted in an integration diagram, as illustrated in Exhibit 11.3. It is also imperative to identify
the steps and the various processes by which the final integration proposition was arrived at.
Thus, this diagram should both record the current or future state of service-oriented integration
Integrated
Disintegrated
Perspective of...
Separated
Contained
Comment
EXHIBIT 11.3 SERVICE-ORIENTED BUSINESS
INTEGRATION SYMBOLS
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and present a clear history of business and information technology (IT) alignment milestones.
Consider the following integration operation symbols, which can facilitate this documentation.
??? Integrated. This symbol identifies an integration activity that has been performed between
a service and a domain structure or between a service and a contextual perspective.
??? Disintegrated. Integration activities can also be reversed, meaning a service can be
removed from a domain environment because of strategic or tactical reasons.
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