Introduction     Overview     Service Inventory Blueprints     Service-Oriented Analysis     Service-Oriented Design Service Models     Service Layers     Entity Services     Task Services     Utility Services Delivery Processes     Top Down vs. Bottom Up     The Inventory Analysis Cycle (Part I)     The Inventory Analysis Cycle (Part II)     The Inventory Analysis Cycle (Part III)     Choosing a Delivery Strategy The Service-Oriented Analysis Process     Process Overview     Information Gathering Steps     Service Modeling Process (Part I)     Service Modeling Process (Part II) Service-Oriented Design Processes     Process Overview     Design Processes and Service Models     Design Processes and Service-Orientation Additional Resources     Web Sites     Book Series     Training     Consulting The Service-Oriented Analysis Process Process Overview A separate analysis is dedicated to each business process definition associated with a given service inventory. For the full definition of a service inventory blueprint, a complete top-down delivery process is carried out, comprised of numerous iterations through service-oriented analysis process steps. Figure: A high-level service-oriented analysis process. The figure shows how service-oriented analysis actually represents a parent process consisting of two information gathering steps and then a third step represented by the service modeling sub-process. This page contains excerpts from: SOA Principles of Service Design by Thomas Erl (ISBN: 0132344823, Prentice Hall/PearsonPTR, Hardcover, 240+ Full Color Illustrations, 573 pages) Free Color Poster (see www.soaposters.com). For more information about this book, visit www.soabooks.com/psd/.

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