Service architecture principles define the underlying general rules and guidelines for the use and deployment of all IT resources and assets across the customer environment. They showcase a level of understanding among the different lines of business of the customer, and form the basis for making future architecture/roadmap decisions.
The architecture is based on a design of services, which mirrors customer business objectives that comprise business processes. Service-orientation delivers business agility and a boundary-free information flow. Service representation utilizes business descriptions to provide business processes, goals, rules, policies, service interfaces, and service components, which implements services using service orchestration. Service orientation places special requirements on the infrastructure, and implementations should use open standards to get interoperability and location transparency. Implementations are customer use case specific. They are limited or enabled...