3.2. Technical Services

14. Technical services provide fundamental support to service based frameworks both in the form of information integration and communication services, and in the form of COI independent general service building blocks.

15. COI services provide more specialized services in order to give the business more specific business benefits within a “domain” or “area of interest”.

16. A COI is a collaborative group of users who have shared goals, interests, missions or business processes that result in information exchange and shared vocabulary.

17. Information services include services that are either made available to all users by the infrastructure, or are mandatory to be provided by all users, by all providers or by all consumers. Information services also include specification of services of general interest that may be voluntarily exchanged by any parties on the network. Currently, information services are based only on Core Enterprise Services (CES), but may be extended in the future.

18. Any service based framework, such as the Business Process Infrastructure Framework (BPIF), needs to provide a basic set of services that support and facilitate implementation and deployment of actual business services and processes. Such basic services are usually referred to as Core Enterpise Services.

19. Here we will provide an overview of such CESs in a BPIF context in terms of the way such services are categorized. A few examples of CESs in each category is also provided, but a complete set of well defined core services cannot be provided as it to a large extent will depend on the actual implementation of the BPIF.

20. Core services in a BPIF context are divided into two main categories according to their primary role in the implementation of business services and processes.

3.2.1. List of Core Enterprise Services

Service Standards
Core Enterprise Services

Mandatory

Emerging

Enterprise Support Services

Emerging

Unified Communication and Collaboration Services

Mandatory

Emerging

Fading

Audio-based Collaboration Services

Mandatory

Formal Messaging Services

Mandatory

Emerging

Fading

Informal Messaging Services

Mandatory

Emerging

Application Sharing Services

Mandatory

Fax Services

Mandatory

Emerging

Document Sharing Services

Mandatory

Enterprise Support IA Services

Mandatory

Emerging

Fading

Enterprise Support Guard Services

Mandatory

Emerging

  • Binding of Metadata to Data Objects (NC3A TN 1455)

Geospatial Services

Mandatory

Emerging

Fading

Geospatial Information Provision Services

Emerging

Geospatial Coordinate Services

Emerging

Information Management Services

Emerging

Enterprise Search Services

Mandatory

Infrastructure Services

Mandatory

Emerging

Fading

Infrastructure IA Services

Emerging

Infrastructure Guard Services  
Infrastructure SMC Services

Emerging

  • Open Services Infrastructure (OpenSiS) v.1.9.5.6, OpenSIS

Infrastructure Networking Services

Emerging

Distributed Time Services

Mandatory

Emerging

Domain Name Services

Mandatory

Emerging

Host Configuration Services

Emerging

Fading

Data Transfer Services

Emerging

Infrastructure Processing Services

Mandatory

Fading

File System Storage Services

Mandatory

Relational Database Storage Services

Mandatory

Emerging

Fading

Directory Storage Services

Mandatory

Emerging

Fading

SOA Platform Services

Mandatory

Emerging

Mediation Services

Mandatory

Emerging

Data Format Transformation Services

Mandatory

Emerging

Composition Services

Mandatory

Choreography Services

Emerging

Message-oriented Middleware Services

Mandatory

Emerging

Web Platform Services

Mandatory

Emerging

Web Hosting Services

Mandatory

Portlet Services

Mandatory

Emerging

SOA Platform SMC Services

Mandatory

Emerging

Fading

Service Discovery Services

Mandatory

Emerging

SOA Platform IA Services

Mandatory

Emerging

Fading

SOA Platform Guard Services

Mandatory

Security Token Services

Mandatory

Emerging

Policy Decision Point (PDP) Services

Mandatory

Emerging

Information Discovery Services

Mandatory

Emerging

Metadata Repository Services

Mandatory

Emerging

Information Access Services

Mandatory

Emerging

3.2.2. Community Of Interest (COI) Services

Service Standards
COI-Enabling Services

Mandatory

Emerging

Fading

Symbology Services

Mandatory

Emerging

Fading

Track Management Services

Mandatory

Emerging

Fading

Modeling and Simulation Services

Emerging

Air Information Services

Mandatory

Meteorology Services

Mandatory

Logistics COI Services

Mandatory

Emerging

Sensor Planning Services

Mandatory

Modeling and Simulation COI Services

Mandatory

Fading

3.2.3. Communications Services

Service Standards
Communications Services

Mandatory

Emerging

Transmission Services

Mandatory

Fading

Wireless LOS Mobile Narrowband Transmission Services

Mandatory

Fading

Wireless BLOS Static Wideband Transmission Services

Mandatory

Fading

Wireless BLOS Mobile Transmission Services

Mandatory

Fading

Communications Access Services

Mandatory

Emerging

Fading

Tactical Messaging Access Services

Mandatory

Fading

Packet-based Access Services

Mandatory

Call Management Services

Mandatory

Transport Services

Mandatory

Emerging

Fading

IP-based Transport Services

Mandatory

Emerging

Fading

Packet Routing Services

Mandatory

Emerging

3.2.4. Cloud Services