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An Approach to Extract the Business Value from SOA Services

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Exploring Services Science (IESS 2011)

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Enterprises deploy SOA for the cost-effective flexibility and enhanced usage of legacy IT. But, the shift to SOA does not come easy and cheap. Building an effective SOA platform requires tight integration between new and existing product categories, and it may require large investments. Therefore, conventional investment valuation methods need to be combined with other modern techniques to reflect SOA’s long-term strategic investment nature, the inherent uncertainty and the managerial discretion. Some emerging value-based analytical methodologies have started to be developed extensively under the umbrella concept of Business Value Analysis (BVA). However, BVA is not yet a wholly integrated and the theoretical foundation for it needs to be strengthened. Thus, in this paper, we apply modified CVP/BEP method developed under the BVA umbrella for the evaluation of SOA projects, in particular for the services reuse.

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    Natalia Kryvinska, Lukas Auer & Christine Strauss

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  1. University of Geneva, CUI Battelle - bâtiment A 7, route de Drize, CH-1227, Carouge, Switzerland

    Mehdi Snene

  2. University of Geneva, CUI, Battelle - bâtiment A 7, route de Drize, CH-1227, Carouge, Switzerland

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  3. University of Geneva, CUI, Battelle - bâtiment A, , 7, route de Drize, CH-1227, Carouge, Switzerland

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Kryvinska, N., Auer, L., Strauss, C. (2011). An Approach to Extract the Business Value from SOA Services. In: Snene, M., Ralyté, J., Morin, JH. (eds) Exploring Services Science. IESS 2011. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 82. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21547-6_4

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