During the workshop we will discuss the following topics:

1. Alignment of the enterprise goals and strategy with the service-oriented enterprise architecture

• Which interdependencies exist between services and business strategy?
• Which concepts and methods are necessary to align services with the business strategy?
• Which new potentials to reengineer business processes are created by services?
• How are non-functional requirements derived from enterprise goals and strategy?
• How are services aligned with non-functional requirements?
• How are services aligned with compliance requirements?
• Are the compliance and governance requirements enforced using service-oriented enterprise architectures?

2. Design of service-oriented enterprise architecture

• How are business, software, platform and infrastructure services defined?
• How are business services assigned to business processes?
• How are business services assigned to non-functional requirements?
• How are service (value) nets -consisting of business, software, platform and infrastructure services- created?
• How does service-oriented enterprise architecture, interrelate with cloud computing?
• How do meta-services differentiate for business, software, platform and infrastructure services?
• How are appropriate meta-services designed?
• Which phases do the lifecycle of business, software, platform and infrastructure services contain?
• How can the fulfilment of non-functional requirements be monitored?
• Which benchmarks and key performance indicators should be applied to services?
• Which approaches exist for the continual improvement of services?

3. Mapping of service-oriented enterprise architecture to enterprise resources

• Which resources are relevant for Service-oriented Enterprise Architecture?
• How are services mapped to enterprise resources?
• Which approaches exist to map services to resources?
• Which information system architectures are adequate for services?
• How can non-functional requirements be mapped to capacity planning of resources?