Research on the Service-oriented business ecosystem

Service-oriented business ecosystem (SOBE) is a relatively new paradigm for the development of service-oriented enterprises (SOEs). It tries to operate and reorganize business services provided by enterprises as business ecosystems in analogy with the way that natural ecosystems are running on. Business ecosystem is composed of diverse business services members and inter-member flows of material, energy, knowledge and money. In this paper, first different analogies of biological ecosystem are reviewed. Second, the component elements and the characteristics of the SOBE are analyzed. Third, based on the analysis of the SOBE, the topology is advanced. Then, an architecture of Service-oriented business ecosystem is proposed.