From Business Process Models to Service Interfaces

Service-oriented architectures are often at the heart of modern enterprise information systems. Given that these systems are intended to support the day-to-day operations of an organization, a natural question to ask is how do we ensure that an organization’s service-oriented architecture is aligned with its business processes? This chapter dives into this question by sketching a method for analyzing a business process in view of enabling its execution on top of a service-oriented application landscape. The chapter also provides an overview of technology standards and platforms for implementing business processes in the context of service-oriented architectures.