The Service-Oriented
Analysis Process
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Service-Oriented
Design Processes
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The Service-Oriented Analysis Process
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Information Gathering Steps
Define Analysis Scope
During this step business analysts are asked to clearly establish the
boundary of the analysis. Most commonly, there is a ratio of one
analysis process to one business process definition. However, business
processes can be complex or multi-layered (containing nested
processes) and may or may not already be representing portions
of business logic already analyzed during a previous iteration of the
service inventory analysis cycle. Therefore, this step may also
require identifying portions of a given business process for which
service modeling is not required.
Identify Affected Systems
It is helpful to have an understanding of what existing parts of the enterprise will be
affected by the scope of the planned business process analysis. Especially relevant are
legacy systems that may later raise service encapsulation and autonomy challenges.
These types of constraints can directly impact the partitioning of logic into services and
the ultimate granularity at which service candidates are defined.
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