@inproceedings{084928efade04e458d07f7702a6eeece,
title = "The challenge of evolving existing systems to service-oriented architectures",
abstract = "Software systems are an integral part of industrial processes at every level, from low-level production control to enterprise planning. The maintenance challenge presented by such systems is about finding an acceptable balance between risk involved in evolving the system and benefits offered by the update. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) promises to leverage software systems to become more efficient and responsive to change through service reuse and process agility. However, for existing systems, this compounds the maintenance problem as SOA represents a {"}paradigm-shift{"}. It leaves business leaders facing a difficult problem: how to minimise the risk to their investment (existing software systems) and exploit the benefits of migrating a SOA. We describe a pragmatic strategy for addressing the problem and outline the significant challenges that remain.",
author = "John Hutchinson and Gerald Kotonya and James Walkerdine and Peter Sawyer and Glen Dobson and Victor Onditi",
year = "2007",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1109/INDIN.2007.4384871",
language = "English",
isbn = "1424408644",
series = "IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN)",
publisher = "IEEE",
pages = "773--778",
booktitle = "INDIN 2007 Conference Proceedings - 5th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics",
address = "United States",
note = "INDIN 2007 - 5th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics ; Conference date: 23-06-2007 Through 27-06-2007",
}