Service engineering in business ecosystems

Abstract

Service providers are increasingly forced to cooperate to strengthen their core competencies and to create partner networks to offer new services. In order to facilitate the collaboration process, business ecosystems have been building which allow service providers to offer their own as wells as combined e-services with other providers over the Internet. This paper introduces the Inter-enterprise Service Engineering methodology (ISE) which has been developed in the Texo use case of the Theseus project and provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and model-driven approach to e-service development in business ecosystems. One major aim of the ISE is to integrate business as well as technical stakeholders in the e-service development process and support them with appropriate models, methods, and tools.