A Business-oriented Architecture Compliant with Semantic SOA

Abstract

Although SOA helps IT peoples better deliver on the changing needs of the business, it focus only on the technology of the business, not the business itself. Moreover, it does not address the semantic interoperability issue while it works well in syntactic interoperability. Business process improvement has been identified as the top business priority in a recent survey by Gartner. This paper combines business process management and business rules management to present a business-oriented architecture adopting a semantic SOA environment-WSMX to allow the IT and business world align with each other to transform technical capability into business agility.