A Service-Oriented E-Commerce Reference Architecture

Aulkemeier, Fabian; Schramm, Milan; Lacob, Maria-Eugenia; Hillegersberg, Jos van

doi:10.4067/s0718-18762016000100003

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“…The results were validated with the online retail practice in the Netherlands (Aulkemeier et al 2016). According to the findings, the online retail process is comparable to existing reference processes in retailing.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…On the business layer the online retail process consists of pre-trade, trade and post trade activities (Liu and Hwang 2004). Internally the actor implements eight different business functions which have been identified by different authors in (Gunasekaran et al 2002;Burt and Sparks 2003;Becker and Schutte 2007;Frank and Lange 2007) and have been consolidated in (Aulkemeier et al 2016). The same study presents six application layer components implemented by most online retailers.…”

Section: E-commerce Companymentioning

confidence: 99%

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A pluggable service platform architecture for e-commerce

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In the beginning of the e-commerce era, retailers mostly adopted vertically integrated solutions to control the entire e-commerce value chain. However, they began to realize that to achieve agility, a better approach would be to focus on certain core capabilities and then create a partner ecosystem around them. From a technical point of view, this means it is advised to have a lightweight platform architecture with small core e-commerce functionality which can be extended by additional services from third party providers. In a typical e-commerce ecosystem with diverse information systems of network partners, integration and interoperability become critical factors to enable seamless coordination among the partners. Furthermore an increasing adoption of cloud computing technology could be observed resulting in more challenging integration scenarios involving cloud services. Thus, an e-commerce platform is required that suites the advanced needs for flexible and agile service integration. Therefore, this paper aims to present a reference architecture of a novel pluggable service platform for e-commerce. We investigate on currently available online shop platform solutions and integration platforms in the market. Based on the findings and motivated by literature on service-oriented design, we develop an architecture of a service-based pluggable platform for online retailers. This design is then instantiated by means of a prototype 123Inf Syst E-Bus Manage (2016) 14:469-489 DOI 10.1007 for an e-commerce returns handling scenario to demonstrate the feasibility of our architecture design.

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A pluggable service platform architecture for e-commerce

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“…The functional capabilities of common e-commerce solutions do not allow online shops to manage legal regulations for cross-border selling in a straightforward manner (Aulkemeier et al 2016b). By addressing this challenge through a pluggable service, we can demonstrate the advantages of the architecture regarding the adoption of services, and its benefits in embracing novel business opportunities.…”

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“…SaaS offerings for online stores or business-to-consumer marketplaces, such as eBay, serve the same purpose. Aulkemeier et al (2016b) explored the architecture of online retail systems and found that such e-commerce platforms cover only a small part of the required functionality to operate an e-commerce channel. More precisely, they provide limited capabilities in terms of warehousing, finance, or customer support, thus assuming the integration with other application components that provide the missing functionality.…”

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An architectural perspective on service adoption: A platform design and the case of pluggable cross-border trade compliance in e-commerce

Aulkemeier

Iacob

Hillegersberg

2017

Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce

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Current e-commerce architectures rely on a small number of monolithic application systems. The adoption of innovative IT functionality within these architectures is a tedious and complex task. The purpose of this article is to present a design for a novel platform architecture to improve the pluggability of e-commerce services. More precisely, the pluggability of services in current architectures is described, a platform architecture is introduced, and its effect on pluggability is evaluated by means of a prototype. The enablers for this architecture are the recent innovations of web programming interfaces, delegated resource access, and client-side web application frameworks. Those technologies are common in social media and their potential in enterprise computing is revealed in this work, based on the example of a trade compliance service for cross-border retail. The results of this study suggest that the architectural design has merits as it improves the pluggability of e-commerce services. Hence, e-commerce companies should consider a paradigm shift and move from using self-contained application components to a platform-based adoption of complementary services.

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“…We did not include such details for brevity.We end this section by summarizing the methodology that we propose to converge on the effort estimate of the ideal hybrid deployment of a software system: Let us consider a typical online retail system. We have considered a simplified version of the reference model described in [11] and depicted that in Figure 3. Retail software can typically be classified into two main categories [11]:…”

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Architectural partitioning and deployment modeling on hybrid clouds

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2017

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The hybrid cloud idea is increasingly gaining momentum because it brings distinct advantages as a hosting platform for complex software systems. However, there are several challenges that need to be surmounted before hybrid hosting can become pervasive and penetrative. One main problem is to architecturally partition workloads across permutations of feasible cloud and non-cloud deployment choices to yield the best-fit hosting combination. Another is to predict the effort estimate to deliver such an advantageous hybrid deployment. In this paper, we describe a heuristic solution to address the said obstacles and converge on the ideal hybrid cloud deployment architecture, based on properties and characteristics of workloads that are sought to be hosted. We next propose a model to represent such a hybrid cloud deployment and demonstrate a method to estimate the effort required to implement and sustain that deployment. We also validate our model through dozens of case studies spanning several industry verticals and record results pertaining to how the industrial grouping of a software system can impact the aforementioned hybrid deployment model.As alluded to earlier, hybrid environments are composed of multiple cloud and traditional data centers; the cloud is typically multi-vendor and heterogeneous, comprising private, public, and community ('shared private') deployments. While the deployment of future IT systems will turn increasingly hybrid [7], the challenge is to arrive at a topology that results in the least cost of ownership. There are many permutations of hybrid deployment architectures available that offer varying degrees of control, isolation, security, and performance. One or more of these permutations is likely to offer the most advantageous fitment depending on the characteristics of various categories of component workloads.The problem, thus, is to design a deployment strategy for the service provider that apportions different workloads of a business system across a hybrid infrastructure that satisfies various nonfunctional requirements related to performance, security, and availability at the minimum cost of ownership. A cloud deployment, at a high level, comprises the cloud stack (which we refer to as the 'managing environment') and the application workloads that run on target virtual machines ARCHITECTURAL PARTITIONING AND DEPLOYMENT MODELING ON HYBRID CLOUDS 347 (which we call the 'managed environment'). In this paper, we focus on the complexity and effort in constructing the managing environment.An additional problem is to model the effort required to implement such a hybrid cloud-based deployment, which can then be used as a prediction tool for techno-commercial decisions spanning architecture and business. 1.2C5C1C2/ or 0.1 as the number of workloads in Quadrant #3 increase beyond the threshold dictated by ı w . Similarly, the constant in the denominator of the fourth term ‡ Although we focus on Q1 here, we also repeated this experiment for other quadrants and obtained similar results. We did not ...

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A Service-Oriented E-Commerce Reference Architecture

Cited by 31 publications

References 61 publications

A pluggable service platform architecture for e-commerce

A pluggable service platform architecture for e-commerce

An architectural perspective on service adoption: A platform design and the case of pluggable cross-border trade compliance in e-commerce

Architectural partitioning and deployment modeling on hybrid clouds

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