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“Service oriented software architectures will form the core of operational enterprise IT landscapes in the future.”
D. Kuropka et al.
Have you already heard statements like this one and are now wondering how your company can benefit from this trend?
The promise, that through service oriented architectures (SOA) all players in the software system market can gain competitive advantages, are auspicious. The core assumption is to meet changing market requirements in shorter time and more cost-efficient. This enables companies to expand their clientele continuously by offering enhanced functionalities or making existing functionalities accessible in many different system variants, including the integration of external information systems.
Service oriented architectures realize these promises by offering functionality in the form of dedicated services tailored to business aspects and processes. Services divide the system’s functionality into several encapsulated parts, which are made available individually. This reduces the complexity and facilitates the adaptation of software systems, which are now constructed from services along business aspects and not mainly along technical aspects.
However, at present each variant of service based software systems needs to be defined, published and maintained separately. If a new version of a service or a completely new service is developed and published it cannot be used automatically. To the contrary, it has to be integrated in the software variants manually.
The Adaptive Services Grid (ASG) approach towards semantic service provisioning, which is explained in detail on this web site, is a solution to actually realizing the agility and adaptiveness promised by the SOA by overcoming the problem mentioned above. Based on relevant and already available standards, which are crucial for an easy adoption in industry, a solution for service provisioning has been built. With the help of semantic annotations, this solution provides the following key features for service provisioning:
- Seamless integration of heterogeneous external services
- On-demand creation of service compositions
- Reliable service provision with assured quality of service
You want to learn more? Welcome to the world of Adaptive Services Grid!
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