During the workshop we will discuss the following topics:

1. Alignment of the enterprise goals and strategy with the SoEA

• Interdependencies between services and business goals
• Concepts and methods to align services with the business strategy
• New potentials and trends created by services to reengineer business processes
• Quality issues and non-functional requirements for SoEA
• Coherence of services with compliance requirements

2. Digital enterprises

• New trends in digitization for enterprise architecture and enterprise engineering
• Patterns for digital enterprise architecture
• Impacts of digitized products on enterprise architecture
• Business transformations accompanying the augmentation of physical products with companion services

3. SoEA and influence of social and big data in Enterprise Engineering

• Trends in SoEA to use the capabilities of Big Data (volume, variety, velocity, veracity)
• Impacts of social production on the SoEA
• Creation of weak ties in SoEA
• Collective decision processes in SoEA
• Fitting SoEA with cloud computing; Designing Enterprise Architectures using cloud-services

4. Compliance of SoEA with cloud-based enterprise resources

• Concepts and methods for mapping enterprise services to cloud-based resources
• Trends in information system architectures for services
• Concepts and methods for mapping non-functional requirements to cloud-based resources

5. Design of SoEA

• Specifications of business, software, platform and infrastructure services
• Matching business services with business processes
• Lifecycle of business, software, platform and infrastructure services
• Monitoring the fulfilment of non-functional requirements
• Benchmarks and key performance indicators for services
• Approaches the continual improvement of services

6. Management of SoEA

• Impacts of SoEA on the compliance and governance requirements
• Meta-services for business, software, platform and infrastructure services
• Building service (value) nets -consisting of business, software, platform and infrastructure services
• Meta-services for cloud-environments