Minitrack Introduction

The complexities, costs and brittleness of current information architectures, infrastructures and distributed software have provided impetus to emerging conceptualizations of the Service Oriented Enterprise (SOE)1 and its orientation towards on-demand, proactive computing. Some scholars have even predicted the demise of enterprise computing as we know it today given anticipated SOE capabilities2. The foundations for Service Oriented Enterprise (SOE) are rooted in current applications of service oriented architecture (SOA), service oriented infrastructure (SOI), business process and workflow, computing resource virtualization, business semantics, service level agreements, increasing standardization, end-to-end enterprise integration and other areas of applied and theoretical research.