Towards an Economic Justification of Service Oriented Architectures. Measuring the Financial Impact

External Documents

• Towards an Economic Justification of Service Oriented Architectur
• AIS Electronic Library

Reference

vom Brocke, J., Sonnenberg, C., & Thomas, O. (2008). Towards an Economic Justification of Service Oriented Architectures. Measuring the Financial Impact. Paper presented at the 14th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2008), Toronto, CA. (VHB_3: D)

Publication type

Paper in Conference Proceedings

Abstract

Service oriented architectures (SOA) herald a new generation of application systems. Whereas current systems were to be chosen and operated as self-contained systems of individual vendors, service oriented architectures allow for integrating application functionality from different sources internal or external to a company according to individual needs within a specific context. Vendors of ERP systems are developing service oriented product variants and intermediaries for trading services over the internet have established already. Therefore, companies are increasingly confronted with the question, to what extend the adoption of SOA turns out to be a profitable venture. As out-payments can be well estimated, the question is: “What is the actual economic value to be gained by utilizing SOA-enabled systems and what monetary consequences are associated with a SOA adoption?” With this contribution we present an approach to measure the financial impact of SOA based on conceptual process models.

Research

Persons

• Prof. Dr. Jan vom Brocke
• Dr. Christian Sonnenberg, MScIS

Organizational Units

• Institute of Information Systems
• Hilti Chair of Business Process Management