ARIS Solution for Business-Driven SOA Management
Visionary architecture always requires good building plans!
Service-oriented architectures overcome the rigid relationship between IT systems and processes by breaking down IT applications into modular, reusable services. These services are orchestrated into technical processes, enabling them to map business workflows in IT systems. When a business process is altered, technical service orchestration is adjusted and executed accordingly. The key gain is fast, easy IT implementation of new business workflows.
Reaping the benefits of an SOA requires documentation of the business processes to be supported — otherwise, the technical service processes will not meet user needs. Therefore, business processes are essential when planning an SOA.
The ARIS Solution for Business-Driven SOA paves the way to business process-based SOA with specialized software products and the tried-and-tested ARIS
Value Engineering procedural model. Using target-oriented work packages, this
procedural model supports IT staff and departmental users to create and manage service-oriented architectures using work packages that systematically guide them to the desired result.
The solution supports application scenarios for service architecture, service orchestration and process automation and service and application development.
ARIS Solution Scenarios
Service Architecture Management
This scenario supports service design based on enterprise architecture standards and, beginning with the business processes that require IT support. Linking business activities with corresponding services results in a comprehensive SOA repository in ARIS. One element of this scenario is an SOA discovery workshop designed to help launch an SOA project.
Service Orchestration and Process Automation
Here, granular basic services are orchestrated into comprehensive business services using BPEL standards, enabling complex business processes to be mapped at the IT level. The BPEL processes are detailed in ARIS, exported to the relevant execution platform, and executed.
Service and Application Engineering
User requirements serve as input for service and application development in this scenario. To make this possible, BPM and UML modeling are integrated in ARIS. The various scenario work packages result in generated code, which is refined in the appropriate development environments.
