Information Systems and e-Business Management manuscript No. (will be inserted by the editor) Service-oriented Transformation of Business Models into Deployment Artifacts

The date of receipt and acceptance will be inserted by the editor Abstract In recent years business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce has been subject to major rethinking. A paradigm shift from document centric file-based interchange of business information to process-centric and finally, a service-based information exchange can be observed. On a business level, a lot of work has been done to capture business models and collaborative busi-ness processes of an enterprise; further initiatives address the identification of customer services and the formalization of business service level agree-ments. On a technical level, the focus in software development is moving towards service-oriented architectures (SOA). These developments on both levels promise more flexibility, a market entry at lower costs and an easier IT-alignment to changing market conditions. Hence, an overwhelming quan-tity of specifications and approaches emerged in the past targeting the area of B2B- these approaches are partly competing and overlapping. In this paper, we provide a survey of the most promising ones at both levels and classify them using the Open-edi reference model standardized by ISO. Fur-thermore, we discuss how individual specifications on different levels may fit together- starting from business models via business processes to artifacts ready for deployment. Whereas on the technical level, service-oriented ar-chitecture is becoming the predominant approach, on the business level the landscape is more heterogenuous. In this context, we propose to integrate business modeling with process modeling in order to make the transforma-tion from business services to Web services more transparent.