Adopting a theoretical method for the development of a service-oriented information system

Abstract

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has attracted much attention due to its ability to provide flexibility in sharing data and information and fast responsiveness to dynamic business environment. Many studies have been done on technical and practical issues of deploying SOA in enterprises; however few of them investigated SOA applications in Information Systems (IS) considering the organizational environment, human factors and political aspects. In this study SOA methods and techniques were assessed and technical and environmental issues of organization were studied. Consequently a definition for SOIS and a theoretical methodology which supports deploying SOA in organizational information systems to develop Service-Oriented Information Systems (SOIS) was proposed. Finally, the proposed methodology was applied in a case study to determine its feasibility. A prototype which is a web-base information systems offering some services to users in order to facilitate finding information was developed based on the results of the case study and tested successfully.