Service Design - A Guide for Enterprise Solutions

This article on service design has been written keeping in mind engineers and business analysts who are interested in the designing process and involved in implementing information technology based solutions for companies and business organizations. The concept of an enterprise service design is needed because it throws open a whole new arena and dimension to designing which incorporates the needs and perspectives of both the end user and the business process as such.

What is the need to design an Enterprise service

-The full potential of an architecture blueprint can only be brought to life with the right enterprise service.

- An in depth understanding of the business processes and situations are obtained

- It helps to automate the entire process in a flexible and user friendly manner

Any enterprise service is designed in such a way that it helps different components of the business to work in unison or a single component to function in multiple ways. These services are also designed in such a manner that they can be reused again and again even when a change is being made from old to new.

The designing process for enterprise services will bear fruit only when different sources work together in an adaptable environment.

One such source is the business analyst whose main challenge will be to create services that incorporate the various processes undertaken by his company; in short, the services have to be unique to the needs of his organization.

The role for addressing client requirements goes to SAP Managers and they can do this by incorporating the designed enterprise services into the SAP Business Suite family.
System experts will also be required to create new automation facilities for customers when a new service is incorporated.

The new enterprise service design can also be used by software vendors who are interested in broadening their functionality horizon and mete out better customer service.

Tasks involved in designing an IT enabled enterprise service design

1. The first and foremost task is to identify the problem and get an idea on which business processes are dependent on this


2. Requirements have to be gathered from various sources as a potential solution to the problem.


3. The next step is to devise ideas for addressing the various components of these requirements.


4. Once an idea has taken form, this has to be evaluated thoroughly with respect to the business processes it is related to and fresh inputs and suggestions can also be obtained from all those who are associated or use this business process.


5. Since the IT solution will have to be constructed by the technical team, the next task is to hold discussions with this team to ensure that it can be easily implemented to aid the business process.


6. Last and the most final task is the implementation step; ensure that the solution has been eased seamlessly into the enterprise service design to function for better and effective business processes.

Understanding these aspects of enterprise service design will be helpful to all business analysts who are constantly challenged with the need to offer better solutions for customer requirements.

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