The article explains TOGAF's concept of business services, compares them with SOA and ITIL services, provides insurance and banking examples, and outlines a top‑down process for identifying and modeling business services within an enterprise architecture framework.
The article explains the concept of business services within the TOGAF framework, clarifies their definition and identification through examples from insurance and banking, and shows how they relate to SOA, ITIL, and enterprise architecture service models.
The article explains the concept of business services within the TOGAF 9.1 metamodel, compares it to SOA and ArchiMate definitions, demonstrates how to identify services from business processes using real insurance and banking examples, and discusses how these services relate to IS, SOA, and ITIL service models.
This article outlines a three‑layer, adaptable backend architecture—gateway, business, and foundation layers—detailing how to handle HTTP/TCP requests, design service interfaces, manage data models, and choose technical components to support rapidly evolving business needs.
