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114 Chapter 6 Working from Your Services to the Clouds
Create a Service
Model
Data
Catalog
Understand Services
Candidate
Services
Information
Model
Information to Services
Services
to
Information
Build Service Model
Service
Model
Figure 6.4 Creating the service model requires an understanding of the information,
including the data catalog and the information model we created in Chapter 5.
Key deliverables include candidate services, services as related to information, and
the service model.
Looking only at the General Ledger system, we discovered the following
information when we created the information model:
General Ledger Database
Customers
CNum (char 30)
CName (char 30)
CAddress (char 40)
CCity (char 30)
CZip (char 5)