Not knowing precisely the services developed and deployed in an environment is not something anyone serious about service oriented architectures can afford. In this regards, business service cartography is a key pillar of SO architectures and valuable help to get insight on your business related developments. Being able to draw a map of your business, at any time, is a must to start capitalizing, industrializing and get enough insight to predict with maximum reliability the impact of change within an organization.

Beneath the notion of business services cartography lays two main directions of work:

The first one, which is the goal of the first part of this article, is driven by the necessity to formalize contractually business processes, services and operations and is seen as static referencing.

The second one, which will be addressed in our next article, addresses the agility required by such a capability in the form of dynamic referencing.

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