Introduction to composite business services

In many enterprises, business functions are provided as an end result of collaboration between multiple business services. These business services are often inter-related and are very often provided through a suite of applications. In most cases, these relationships tend to form a hierarchy of services, that is, a combination of disparate business services provides another business service. Such an amalgamation of different business services to provide a single complex business function is termed as a composite business service. For instance, the flight search business service and the hotel search business service combine together to provide a composite travel search business function in an enterprise travel portal. Widespread adoption of composite business services, usually provided by composite applications or packaged applications, is prevalent in the modern day IT landscape. So business service management solutions must provide models to monitor...