Patent ID: 8392540

Claim:
A method for designing a service specific service oriented architecture (SOA) shared services solution, the method comprising: receiving a set of service requirements for a set of SOA shared services that are developed as part of a potential SOA shared services project; refining the set of service requirements for the set of SOA shared services, the refining comprising: refining integration criteria for each of the set of service requirements for each of the set of SOA shared services; and analyzing a set of shared design points among multiple key stakeholders of the potential SOA shared services project based on the refined integration criteria for each of the set of service requirements for each of the set of SOA shared services; and refining a service architecture for the set of SOA shared services based on the analyzing; and designing a service specific SOA shared services solution based on the refining; establishing a service specific development and testing infrastructure to develop and evaluate the service specific SOA shared services solution; developing a prototype of the service specific SOA shared services solution; and evaluating the prototype of the service specific SOA shared services solution.