Granularity of Services |
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Authors: | Alexander Krammer Bernd Heinrich Matthias Henneberger Florian Lautenbacher |
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Institution: | 1.Kernkompetenzzentrum Finanz- und Informationsmanagement,Universit?t Augsburg,Augsburg,Germany;2.Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik, Produktion und Logistik,Universit?t Innsbruck,Innsbruck,Austria;3.Siemens IT Solutions and Services,München,Germany;4.Softplant GmbH,München,Germany |
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Abstract: | Service-oriented architectures are widely discussed as a design principle for application and enterprise architectures. Nevertheless,
an adequate granularity of services has not yet been researched sufficiently from an economic perspective. The finer the granularity
to realize the functions of a process, the higher the number of services is, and the more effort has to be directed towards
composing them. In contrast, very coarse-grained services bear the disadvantages of higher implementation costs and lower
reuse potential (e.g., in different processes). The aim of the decision model proposed in this paper is to determine an adequate
granularity of services from an economical perspective. Thus, degrees of freedom, which often exist for the choice of granularity
after a domain analysis, can be leveraged to realize a cost-efficient solution. We illustrate the applicability and practical
benefits of the decision model with an example from the context of a financial services provider. |
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