Creating a sustainable digital infrastructure: The role of service-oriented architecture
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The United Nations’ goal of generating sustainable industry, innovation, and infrastructure is the point of departure for our reflective paper. The paper elaborates on the concepts of digital infrastructure, service-oriented architecture, and microservices. It emphasizes the benefits and challenges of creating a sustainable infrastructure based on a service-oriented environment, in which cloud services constitute an important part. We outline the prerequisites for obtaining a sustainable digital infrastructure based on services. Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and recently, microservice architecture, and cloud services, can provide organizations with the improved agility and flexibility essential for generating sustainability in a market focusing on digitalization. The reuse capability of SOA provides a common pool of information technology (IT) resources and qualifies as a green IT approach that impacts environmental protection. Previous research has identified IT and business alignment together with SOA governance as the most critical criteria when implementing SOA. This paper discusses these issues in-depth to explain sustainability.
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From Interoperability of heterogeneous health information systems: a systematic literature review (2023) · cites this paper as [32]
SOA services are reusable.
“Reusable. Services can be repurposed to create a variety of applications. Because SOA services are stored in a service repository and linked on demand, each service becomes a generalized resource available to everyone. Reusing services allows businesses to save time and money when it comes to development.”
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From Interoperability of heterogeneous health information systems: a systematic literature review (2023) · cites this paper as [32]
SOA provides high availability.
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From Interoperability of heterogeneous health information systems: a systematic literature review (2023) · cites this paper as [32]
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From Interoperability of heterogeneous health information systems: a systematic literature review (2023) · cites this paper as [32]
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“Simple to keep up with. Because each service is self-contained, it is simple to modify and update them without affecting other services. The running costs of an organization will also be reduced as a result of this.”
From Interoperability of heterogeneous health information systems: a systematic literature review (2023) · cites this paper as [32]
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- Authors
- Hustad, E., & Olsen, D. H.
- Affiliations
- University of Agder (NO)
- Corresponding author
- Hustad, Eli
- Venue
- Procedia Computer Science
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2021
- Volume
- 181
- Pages
- 597-604
- ISSN
- 1877-0509 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3130558175
- Cited by
- 93
- References
- 53
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 20 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 24 · 2022: 23 · 2021: 4
- FWCI
- 13.68
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Procedia Computer Science (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- NORA - Norwegian Open Research Archives (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Cloud Computing and Resource Management
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Management Information Systems › Information Technology Governance and Strategy
- Keywords
- sustainable digital infrastructure, service-oriented architecture, microservices, cloud services, green computing, SOA governance, business-IT alignment, digitalization
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