Service Oriented Computing in Practice – An Agenda for Research into the Factors Influencing the Organizational Adoption of Service Oriented Architectures

Abstract

The paradigm of service-oriented computing (SOC) has emerged as an approach to provide flexibility and agility, not just in systems development but also in business process management. This modular approach to defining business flows as technology independent services has gained unanimous popularity among end-users and technology vendors alike. Although there is a significant amount of ongoing research on the potential of service oriented architectures (SOAs), there is a paucity of research literature on the factors affecting the adoption of service-oriented computing in practice. This paper reviews the current state of the technology, identifies the factors influencing the decision to adopt service-oriented computing as an enterprise strategy and discusses the associated research literature, and concludes with a suggested research agenda and conceptual framework for investigating the use of service-oriented computing in practice.

Constructing service-oriented architecture adoption maturity matrix using Kano model

“…The perceived benefits of SOA have promoted SOA as an architecture that capable of addressing the business needs of modern organizations in a costeffective and timely manner [4]. Luthria and Rabhi further mentioned that based on their finding, SOA has been widely adopted because there are many benefits provided by SOA and these benefits also can appear in a form of business strategy [5]. There also has been an increasing interest in academia to investigate the approaches for migrating legacy systems to SOA because of the benefits that SOA provided [6].…”

Organizational Constraints to Realizing Business Value from Service Oriented Architectures: An Empirical Study of Financial Service Institutions

“…The technical aspects of SOA appear to have appropriate research efforts and guidelines [20], but there is a lack of similar structure for the examination of the pragmatic impacts of the adoption of SOA. There is a growing understanding of the organizational processes and characteristics that influence the adoption and implementation of technology [5,10], but there is little understanding of how these organizational constraints may impact the organizational adoption of SOA [14].…”

An SOA Framework for Web-based E-learning Systems – A case of Adult Learners

“…It is "an interconnected set of services which in its basic form is a message-based interaction between software agents, each accessible through standard interfaces and messaging protocol" [16]. SOA is implemented through the use of web services [17].…”

“…Interaction, knowledge building and collaboration features of e-Learning systems cannot be ignored and it is necessity that they be considered in the adoption of SOA in adult e-Learning systems. The attributes of web services that include reusability, composability, discoverability and loose coupling [16][17] extends the importance of employing SOA in e-learning systems to allow integration of different systems to communicate and utilize the services [18] they contain from each other.…”