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Xu, Yang 2010-11-26T11:55:19Z 2010-11-26T11:55:19Z 2010 http://hdl.handle.net/2086/4399 Enterprises can be empowered to live up to the potential of becoming dynamic, agile and real-time. Service orientation is emerging from the amalgamation of a number of key business, technology and cultural developments. Three essential trends in particular are coming together to create a new revolutionary breed of enterprise, the service-oriented enterprise (SOE): (1) the continuous performance management of the enterprise; (2) the emergence of business process management; and (3) advances in the standards-based service-oriented infrastructures. This thesis focuses on this emerging three-layered architecture that builds on a service-oriented architecture framework, with a process layer that brings technology and business together, and a corporate performance layer that continually monitors and improves the performance indicators of global enterprises provides a novel framework for the business context in which to apply the important technical idea of service orientation and moves it from being an interesting tool for engineers to a vehicle for business managers to fundamentally improve their businesses. en De Montfort University Faculty of Technology Software Technology Research Laboratory business rule legacy system software evolution service-oriented architecture Business rules based legacy system evolution towards service-oriented architecture. Thesis or dissertation Doctoral PhDopen.access