Designing a Digital Platform Service Architecture for Retail Company
The article deals with the main prerequisites for the emergence of a service approach to the management of information technologies in an organisation, as well as tools for building an enterprise architecture oriented to the usage of service approach, in particular, a service architecture driven by agreements. The use of this approach is considered based on a digital platform since such a combination allows to manage enterprise architecture most flexibly. The author of this paper focuses on the procurement management processes in a large retail company and considers business processes and business components belonging to this group of processes. The article also considers the existing concepts that are used in the business environment for the implementation of the component approach in the organisation. The conclusion summarises the main results obtained to this moment. The author also presents the artefacts that are planned to be obtained as a result of further work.