Service granularity: This is a design consideration to provide optimal
scope and the appropriate granular level of the business functionality
in a service operation. Service normalization: Services are decomposed and/or consolidated to a level of normal form to minimize redundancy. In some cases, services are denormalized for specific purposes, such as performance optimization, access, and aggregation. Service optimization: All else being equal, high-quality services are generally preferable to low-quality ones. Service relevance: Functionality is presented at a granularity recognized by the user as a meaningful service. Service encapsulation: Many services are consolidated for use under the SOA. Such services often were not planned to be under SOA. Service location transparency: This refers to the ability of a service consumer to invoke a service regardless of its actual location in the network. This also recognizes the discoverability property (one of the core principle of SOA) and the right of a consumer to access the service. Often, the idea of service virtualization also relates to location transparency. This is where the consumer simply calls a logical service while a suitable SOA-enabling runtime infrastructure component, commonly a service bus, maps this logical service call to a physical service. APPLICATIONS Oracle Fusion Applications (OFA) is a set of software applications from Oracle Corporation. It is distributed across various product families, including financial management, human capital management, customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management, procurement, governance, and project portfolio management. OFA were announced shortly after Oracle s US$18 billion acquisition spree of PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and Siebel Systems in 2005. OFA were envisioned and pitched as an enterprise resource planning (ERP) suite a combination of features and functionalities taken from Oracle E-Business Suite, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, and Siebel product lines. The suite is built on top of the OFM technology stack, which leverages the service-oriented architecture capabilities of Oracle Fusion Architecture. Oracle Fusion is