Title
SOA-enabled compliance management: instrumenting, assessing, and analyzing service-based business processes
Abstract
Facilitating compliance management, that is, assisting a company's management in conforming to laws, regulations, standards, contracts, and policies, is a hot but non-trivial task. The service-oriented architecture (SOA) has evolved traditional, manual business practices into modern, service-based IT practices that ease part of the problem: the systematic definition and execution of business processes. This, in turn, facilitates the online monitoring of system behaviors and the enforcement of allowed behaviors--all ingredients that can be used to assist compliance management on the fly during process execution. In this paper, instead of focusing on monitoring and runtime enforcement of rules or constraints, we strive for an alternative approach to compliance management in SOAs that aims at assessing and improving compliance. We propose two ingredients: (i) a model and tool to design compliant service-based processes and to instrument them in order to generate evidence of how they are executed and (ii) a reporting and analysis suite to create awareness of a company's compliance state and to enable understanding why and where compliance violations have occurred. Together, these ingredients result in an approach that is close to how the real stakeholders--compliance experts and auditors--actually assess the state of compliance in practice and that is less intrusive than enforcing compliance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/s11761-013-0129-3
Service Oriented Computing and Applications
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Service-based compliance governance, Compliance assessment, Signaling instrumentation, Key indicators, Root cause analysis, Reporting dashboard
Journal
7
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
1863-2386
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.44
25
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Carlos Rodríguez1917.06
Daniel Schleicher21079.55
Florian Daniel3104177.47
Fabio Casati44526464.03
Frank Leymann56482578.87
Sebastian Wagner6101.94