Soames

The SOAMes project (Service Oriented Architecture in Multichannel e-Services) is motivated by creating a roadmap for enterprises to adopt the SOA architecture and SOA-oriented tools into enterprise computing and inter-enterprise computing. Besides studying the adoption process for present needs, there is a further research agenda for enhancing the SOA and related business-network-management facilities.

The SOAMeS project continues the project series on the B2B interoperability middleware. The middleware provides generic platform services and infrastructure for managing dynamic collaborations in an open networked business environment. The research goals in this project include interoperability management at process and pragmatic level, and non-functional aspects addressing the business strategy needs. Part of the work is performed in industry-partner case projects, studying applicable methodology for SOA-based management of business processes and platforms and applying earlier results.

Research partners: University of Helsinki and VTT

Funding partners: Elisa, Kesko, Metsateho, TietoEnator