SERVICE ENGINEERING FOR FUTURE BUSINESS VALUE NETWORKS

Traditionally, business value networks have orchestrated human and technical resources that worked together to form relationships and to add value to a product or service. The Internet and the Web have extended traditional business networks by allowing also a web of different digital resources to work together to create value. Additionally, the increasing adoption of service-oriented architectures has allowed the creation of service ecosystems in which Web services are exposed and connected. The TEXO project proposes to combine these two trends to create what is called Future Business Value Networks which enable IT-supported value networks via service ecosystems. This paper addresses the main challenging issues that need to be explored to provide an integrated technical infrastructure to support this emerging new type of business networks.