Defining Processes

How do services fit into the picture? Returning to our services model from Chapter 6 and adding processes, it is clear to see that processes connect services together to solve business problems, and services and processes may reside on-premise or on cloud-based platforms as needed to support the architecture, as seen in Figure 7.5.

Figure 7.5. The general idea. Processes leverage services for behavior and information, and these processes and services can reside on on-premise and cloud-based systems as needed to support the architecture.