SOMA – Service Modeling and Architecture Elena Epure,

Agenda  Introduction  Related literature  Meta-modeling  Example

Introduction  SOMA – Service Modeling and Architecture  Arsanjani, Ghosh, Allam, Abdollah, Ganapathy and Holley, 2008  Academy of Technology,  IEEE, IBM SOA Community of Practice,  SOA and Web Services Center of Excellence

Introduction  Purpose:  To guide the adoption of SOA within an organization  Mistakes regarding SOA adoption  lack of governance  enable everything as a service  use too many details for defining the services  ignore SOA paradigms  IBM solution:  SOMA  Custom tooling: SOMA-ME [CONTINUED]

Introduction  Conducting order: Fractal model  Roles: Consumer and Provider [CONTINUED]

Related literature  SOA  An evolution of Enterprise Architecture  SOMA  Origins: previous slide  Validation: Resource and Capacity Management (RCM) Center Modernization (Mynampati & Milind, 2010)  Other methods: TOGAF

Meta-modeling

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Meta-modeling [CONTINUED]  Final deliverable: SOA Reference Framework

Example  Company presentation  ABC, non-life insurance company  Merged with a life insurance company  Problems:  Overlapping processes  Overlapping applications  Complex IT infrastructure  Solution:  SOA adoption

Example  Phase 3: Service identification  Three complementary approaches  Goal service modeling  Domain decomposition  Asset analysis  Refactor and Rationalize DomainsFunctional areas Customer Management  Claim registration  Claim administration  Billing and payment Claim Handling [CONTINUED]

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