An architectural perspective on service adoption: A platform design and the case of pluggable cross-border trade compliance in e-commerce

作者：Aulkemeier Fabian^*; Iacob Maria Eugenia; van Hilleger**erg Jos

来源：Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, 2017, 27(4): 325-341.

DOI：10.1080/10919392.2017.1363588

• Cloud platform
• e-commerce services
• enterprise architecture design
• microservices
• pluggability

Current e-commerce architectures rely on a small number of monolithic application systems. The adoption of innovative IT functionality within these architectures is a tedious and complex task. The purpose of this article is to present a design for a novel platform architecture to improve the pluggability of e-commerce services. More precisely, the pluggability of services in current architectures is described, a platform architecture is introduced, and its effect on pluggability is evaluated by means of a prototype. The enablers for this architecture are the recent innovations of web programming interfaces, delegated resource access, and client-side web application frameworks. Those technologies are common in social media and their potential in enterprise computing is revealed in this work, based on the example of a trade compliance service for cross-border retail. The results of this study suggest that the architectural design has merits as it improves the pluggability of e-commerce services. Hence, e-commerce companies should consider a paradigm shift and move from using self-contained application components to a platform-based adoption of complementary services.

• 出版日期2017