Five Best Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Industry Models Standards

ebXML: Specifications and standards from the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) target the creation of an electronic marketplace in which enterprises can meet and interoperate in their businesses. In a recent move, ebXML has created the Electronic Business SOA Technical Committee.

OAGIS: In the automotive industry, the Open Applications Group Integration Specification (OAGIS) also integrates SOA aspects.

NGOSS: Because of its inherently heterogeneous and multiparty environment, the telecommunication industry has gone a long way in its services definition. The TeleManagement forum standards body has defined contracts in its New Generation of Operation Support Services (NGOSS) specification that are the business services together with business process models and decomposition and the associated information and data model.

IFX: In the banking industry, the IFX Forum addressing public financial services is adding Web services to its existing services and information model.

IFW: Also in the banking industry but targeting all financial domain aspects, IBM has defined a complete Information Framework (IFW) that includes business process and models.