Service Oriented Architecture Methodology Research Articles

An Effective Open ERP System for Automation in Financial Reporting for SMEs based on Service Oriented Architecture

Small-Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are currently in high demand and highly developed in many countries. However, several SMEs still do not yet have an information system to support their business processes. This causes the absence of a system that helps integrate data from each process and sector in SMEs. All data exchanges and transaction report generation are done manually and recorded using physical documents that reduce effectiveness and increase costs. This research uses the accounting module in Open ERP or Odoo Version 11.0 software and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) methods to design ERP systems for general types of SMEs in the finance sector, specifically on the sales and purchase process. So the solution for recording financial transactions and making financial reports for SMEs is to design an ERP system based on Open Source using the Service Oriented Architecture methodology, namely Smart SMEs, by implementing the Automatic Reporting feature to create best practices on an integrated system, especially in recording transactions in the sales and purchase processes so that financial reports can be generated automatically and are real-time. The result of this research is the design of ERP systems in the finance section connected occurs especially in the financial recording of the purchase of goods, the sale of goods, and the creation of financial statements automatically. This system can help the finance sector record transactions and make automatic financial reports that can be generated in real-time.

SPReaD: service-oriented process for reengineering and DevOps

The reengineering of systems into a microservice-based architecture can be seen as an implementation of a service-oriented architecture (SOA). However, the deployment of SOA into an enterprise is a challenging task, as it may involve the modernization of mission-critical systems with high technical debt and high maintenance costs. To this end, a process is required to provide an appropriate set of steps and techniques that minimize risks and at the same time ensure the quality of the systems during the migration process. Thus, this work presents the Service-oriented Process for Reengineering and DevOps—SPReaD, an instantiation of the mainstream SOA methodology focusing on the reengineering of legacy systems integrating DevOps aspects for developing microservices systems. This process has been defined during a real software reengineering project of legacy systems from a Brazilian State Department of Taxation. The results obtained include a substantial improvement in the quality of the main taxation system used by the state, including not only code-related metrics but also performance improvements of the services offered, and a change in the methodology adopted by the software development team.

Demand-Adapted Service Oriented Architecture Using Lego Model

Many developments happened in Service Oriented architecture models but with no details in its technology and requirement. This paper presents a new Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to all Service Enterprise (SE) according to their demands. Therefore, the goal is to build a new complete architecture model for SOA methodologies according to current technology and business requirements that could be used in a real Enterprise environment. To do this, new types of services and new model called Lego Model are explained in details, and the results of the proposed architecture model in analyzed. Consequently, the complications are reduced to support business domains of enterprise and to start associating SOA methodologies in their corporate software.

Applying TOGAF for e-government implementation based on service oriented architecture methodology towards good government governance

As a Local Government Agencies who perform public services, General Government Office already has utilized Reporting Information System of Local Government Implementation (E-LPPD). However, E-LPPD has upgrade limitation for the integration processes that cannot accommodate General Government Offices’ needs in order to achieve Good Government Governance (GGG), while success stories of the ultimate goal of e-government implementation requires good governance practices. Currently, citizen demand public services as private sector do, which needs service innovation by utilizing the legacy system as a service based e-government implementation, while Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to redefine a business processes as a set of IT enabled services and Enterprise Architecture from the Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) as a comprehensive approach in redefining business processes as service innovation towards GGG. This paper takes a case study on Performance Evaluation of Local Government Implementation (EKPPD) system on General Government Office. The results show that TOGAF will guide the development of integrated business processes of EKPPD system that fits good governance practices to attain GGG with SOA methodology as technical approach.

Service Engineering Based on Service Oriented Architecture Methodology

Service Engineering (SE) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) originally reside on different plateaus of discipline. SE is defined as a set of activity introducing a new business service, while SOA is a technical approach to redefine an enterprise business processes as a set of IT enabled services. This paper proposes a SOA embedded SE framework as a comprehensive approach in re-defining business service and its IT implementation. After an introduction, a review of existing SE frameworks and SOA methodologies is presented in the paper. Afterward, a complete SE framework is proposed with several results on early case studies. A survey results are then presented to prove the usability and benefit of the proposed framework. The framework is designed and proposed to help practitioners and researchers to conduct service engineering by employing principles and methodology offered by SOA approach.

Towards a self-adaptive service-oriented methodology based on extended SOMA

We propose a self-adaptive process (SAP) that maintains the software architecture quality using the MAPE-K standard model. The proposed process can be plugged into various software development processes and service-oriented methodologies due to its explicitly defined inputs and outputs. To this aim, the proposed SAP is integrated with the service-oriented modeling and application (SOMA) methodology in a two-layered structure to create a novel methodology, named self-adaptive service-oriented architecture methodology (SASOAM), which provides a semi-automatic self-aware method by the composition of architectural tactics. Moreover, the maintenance activity of SOMA is improved using architectural and adaptive patterns, which results in controlling the software architecture quality. The improvement in the maintainability of SOMA is demonstrated by an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) based evaluation method. Furthermore, the proposed method is applied to a case study to represent the feasibility and practicality of SASOAM.

An Approach for Agile SOA Development using Agile Principals

In dynamic and turbulent business environment, the need for success and survival of any organization is the ability of adapting to changes efficiently and cost-effectively. So, for developing software applications, one of the methods is Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) methodology and other is Agile Methodology. Since embracing changes is the indispensable concept of SOA development as well as Agile Development, using an appropriate SOA methodology able to adapt changes even during system development with the preservation of software quality is necessary. In this paper, a new approach consisted of five steps is presented to add agility to SOA methodologies. This approach, before any SOA-based development, helps architect(s) to determine Core Business Processes (CBPs) by using agile principals for establishing Core Architecture. The most important advantage of this approach according to the results of case study is possibility of embracing changes with the preservation of software quality in SOA developments.

Study on Modeling and Simulation of Digital Factory Technology in Complex Production Development

This paper describes an innovative systematic approach to factory automation. Northwestern Polytechnical University developed an Enterprise-level Digital fActory and its Simulation Platform, NPU-EDASP that adopted service-oriented architecture methodology to design and develop this software. In particular, it specifies the simulation technology within the NPU-EDASP platform to bridge the gape exits among products and production manufacturing process. In an advanced stage, simulation technology can be applied in the NPU-EDASP to enhance the operative production planning and control. Further, the combination of simulation and optimization techniques will improve and optimize material flow, resource utilization and logistics in production engineering processes. A case study of a model demonstrates that the NPU-EDASP digital factory offers an integrated approach to promote the ability of production engineering.

서비스지향 개발 프로세스의 기능기반 모델에 대한 연구

Service-oriented architecture(SOA) is a paradigm where reusable units are independently executable and only accessible through outer interfaces. Standardized methodology based on SOA has not been decided yet although a lot of efforts have been made for systems using SOA. Therefore Development of system using SOA is facing many difficulties currently. In this paper, service oriented methodology of function based model for supporting legacy system is proposed. Standardized methods for function based reusability through analysing SOA methodology are proposed and guide lines for improvement of service reusability are presented.

객체지향 시스템에서 SOA서비스로의 전이 기법

서비스 지향 아키텍처 (Service-Oriented Architecture, SOA)는 독립적으로 실행가능하며, 외부 인터페이스를 통해서만 접근 가능한 서비스를 재사용하는 개발 패러다임이다. 서비스는 기존의 객체 또는 컴포넌트와 다른 특성을 보유하고 있고, 다수의 서비스 소비자들이 재사용할 수 있는 공통적인 기능을 제공해야 한다. 그러므로, 이런 서비스를 개발하기 위한 기법 연구가 필요하다. 대부분의 SOA 방법론은 서비스 요구사항에서부터 서비스를 새롭게 개발하는 기법인 Top-down 접근법을 제안하고 있어 서비스 개발에 비교적 많은 비용과 노력이 요구된다. 그리고, 많은 기업들은 객체 지향 시스템을 보유하고 있기 때문에, 기존의 객체지향 시스템에서 SOA 서비스를 효과적으로 도출하는 기법에 대한 수요가 크다. 객체 지향 시스템은 단일/특정 요구사항을 고려하여 개발되는 반면에, SOA 서비스는 다수의 소비자들의 공통성을 고려하여 개발되어야 하기 때문에. 간단한 매핑 과정을 통하여 객체 지향 시스템을 SOA 서비스로 전이하는 것은 어렵다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 객체지향 시스템의 다양한 산출물과 SOA 서비스의 주요 산출물간의 매핑 관계를 정의하고, 재사용성을 고려하여 객체지향 시스템을 구성하는 다양한 모델들이 서비스의 주요 산출물로 전이되는 체계적인 기법을 제안한다. 각 기법은 입/출력 산출물 간의 관계와 순서화된 상세 절차로 구성되어 있으므로, 보다 쉽게 객체지향 시스템을 서비스로 전이할 수 있도록 도와준다. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a development paradigm for reusing services as an independent reuse unit. A service delivers a cohesive functionality through its external interface. Since services have unique characteristics which are not typically presented in conventional development approaches, there is a demand for effective approaches to developing services. Most of the current SOA methodologies presenta process where services are designed and developed from the requirements rather than reusing existing assets, which demands high cost and effort. Hence, a desirable approach is to be able to develop services by migrating from their existing legacy systems such as object-oriented system. A difficulty in this migration is that objects in object-oriented systems reveal characteristics which differ considerably from those of services. That is, objects are designed without considering commonalities among several consumers. In this paper, we first define mapping relationships between key artifacts in object-oriented system and those in SOA services. By these relationships and considering commonalities among several applications in a domain, we propose three systematic methods to migrate from object-oriented system to SOA services. Each method consists of a list of input and output artifacts and detailed guidelines which are performed in order. Through these methods, service developers can easily develop services with less effort.

A reference business process for ecological niche modelling

Ecological niche modelling combines species occurrence points with environmental raster layers in order to obtain models for describing the probabilistic distribution of species. The process to generate an ecological niche model is complex. It requires dealing with a large amount of data, use of different software packages for data conversion, for model generation and for different types of processing and analyses, among other functionalities. A software platform that integrates all requirements under a single and seamless interface would be very helpful for users. Furthermore, since biodiversity modelling is constantly evolving, new requirements are constantly being added in terms of functions, algorithms and data formats. This evolution must be accompanied by any software intended to be used in this area. In this scenario, a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an appropriate choice for designing such systems. According to SOA best practices and methodologies, the design of a reference business process must be performed prior to the architecture definition. The purpose is to understand the complexities of the process (business process in this context refers to the ecological niche modelling problem) and to design an architecture able to offer a comprehensive solution, called a reference architecture, that can be further detailed when implementing specific systems. This paper presents a reference business process for ecological niche modelling, as part of a major work focused on the definition of a reference architecture based on SOA concepts that will be used to evolve the openModeller software package for species modelling. The basic steps that are performed while developing a model are described, highlighting important aspects, based on the knowledge of modelling experts. In order to illustrate the steps defined for the process, an experiment was developed, modelling the distribution of Ouratea spectabilis (Mart.) Engl. (Ochnaceae) using openModeller. As a consequence of the knowledge gained with this work, many desirable improvements on the modelling software packages have been identified and are presented. Also, a discussion on the potential for large-scale experimentation in ecological niche modelling is provided, highlighting opportunities for research. The results obtained are very important for those involved in the development of modelling tools and systems, for requirement analysis and to provide insight on new features and trends for this category of systems. They can also be very helpful for beginners in modelling research, who can use the process and the experiment example as a guide to this complex activity.