Application and Business Services (EAM)

An application service is an externally visible unit of functionality, provided by one or more applications or components, and exposed through well-defined interfaces.

An application service can be created in the following diagrams:

Application architecture diagram (see Application Architecture Diagram Basics)
Service-oriented diagram (see Service Oriented Diagram Basics)
City planning diagram (see City Planning Diagram Basics)

A business service is a service offered by an organization to its customers that directly supports the work performed in a business process or function, exposed by an application-to-business interface.

A business service can be created in the following diagrams:

Service-oriented diagram (see Service Oriented Diagram Basics)

Example

In this example the Register sales business service is implemented by the Finance Service application service:

Creating an Application or Business Service
You can create an application or business service in any of the following ways:
Application and Business Service Properties
To open an application or business service property sheet and view or edit its properties, double-click its diagram symbol or its Browser entry.
Creating Business and Application Service Operations
An operation is an abstract description of an action supported by a service. For example the Login service may require a Get ID operation

Parent topic: Building Application Layer Diagrams