Potential risks and benefits of service-oriented collaboration - Basic considerations and results from an empirical study

Start Page
155
End Page
160
Article Number
4635153
Citation
2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (IEEE-DEST 2008)
Contribution to Conference
2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, IEEE-DEST 2008  
Publisher DOI
10.1109/DEST.2008.4635153
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-56749136170
Service-oriented Architectures enable companies to cooperate on a completely new level. Although different publications have dealt with the usage of Service-oriented Collaboration in various scenarios, the potential risks and benefits of this collaboration in certain industries have not been observed in detail. In this paper, we present basic considerations about the impact of Service-oriented Collaboration on organizations. Furthermore, we evaluate our assumptions with results from a survey we conducted in the German banking industry. Using data from 52 banks, it turns out that the potential benefits of Service-oriented Collaboration exceed the suspected risks - therefore we deduce that this kind of collaboration is suited to improve the cooperation between and in companies.
Subjects
IT value creation
Service-oriented architectures
Service-oriented collaboration
SOA