“…As a consequence, a SoA shifts the focus from technical to business requirements. From a b usiness perspective, SoA-based processes and application systems have the potential to achieve significant cost saving due to the reduction of maintenance costs and the fact that a SoA can bee seen as an enabling framework for BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) ([BMS04], [Be05], [SBM04]). However, it is not possible to eliminate technological dependencies at a ll because a n appropriate infrastructure (e.g.…”