Service Oriented Computing in Practice – An Agenda for Research into the Factors Influencing the Organizational Adoption of Service Oriented Architectures

The paradigm of service-oriented computing (SOC) has emerged as an approach to provide flexibility and agility, not just in systems development but also in business process management. This modular approach to defining business flows as technology independent services has gained unanimous popularity among end-users and technology vendors alike. Although there is a significant amount of ongoing research on the potential of service oriented...