Business Services

A business service represents a business function whose behavior can be adapted at run time. It is based on the operating context of the request and the policies established to meet the service consumers need.

Business services are defined by three primary elements:

Characteristics of business services

Business services use business policies and metadata to enable flexible and adaptable behavior. They leverage reference industry models to simplify interoperability across various internal and external systems. Business services are:

Benefits of business services

Business services are the building blocks that align business intent with IT execution. They help deliver the values of service-oriented architecture (SOA). Business services have:

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