Minitrack: Towards the "Service Oriented Enterprise"

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 ondemand, proactive computing. Some scholars have even predicted the demise of enterprise computing as we know it today given anticipated SOE capabilities2. The foundations for 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. The purpose of this minitrack is to investigate this paradigm, review the impact of SOE on business and IT strategy, enterprise systems, organizational structures and individuals; investigate its tenets and evaluate relevant management and technical approaches to architecture, infrastructure, business processes, workflows and strategy.