I've acquired a pretty interesting assignment. I have to write a paper describing a new model for outsourcing, based on a "service aggregator" concept. This feels a lot like the ASP craze that hit corporate America a few years ago, but unlike most ASPs, I need to come up with something that will actually work. Think Jamcracker .
I think the right way to approach this is sketch out the ideal enterprise architecture, then look for services within that architecture that can be supplied by third parties, across a network. The notion of a federation of services also makes sense to me - some services are naturally mandated from the center (user authentication, for example), and others can be part of an optional menu.
The bad news is I've only got three weeks to come up with this. I could think about it for three weeks, but getting a final design on paper in that time will be tough.
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I forget where I got this picture, but I think it's pretty funny. Perhaps this is how I'll represent the new system architecture.