| Frank Wagner
| creator |
Wagner, Frank
| | Krebs, Kathleen
| | Mega, Cataldo
| | Mitschang, Bernhard
| | Ritter, Norbert
| | date |
2008-09
| | | | description |
Corporate governance and legislative regulations are forcing
companies to extend their IT infrastructure by Email Archive and
Discovery (EAD) systems for compliance reasons. Praxis shows that
every installation is di??erent from another; not only in terms of
the execution infrastructure, but also in terms of e.g. document and
archiving procedures that map a companys own business rules. As a
consequence, EAD systems have to be highly customizable to their
intended usages.
For this purpose, we propose a service-oriented approach at various
levels of detail that, on one hand, allows for describing EAD
properties at the abstract (service) level and, on the other hand,
supports the appropriate mapping of these services to the existing
execution infrastructure. In this paper, we focus on the development
and (architectural) design of an EAD system, which is well suited to
fulfill these requirements. On the long run, we consider this
solution as an important step on the way to an e??ective distributed
and scalable approach, which, as we think, can be achieved by
appropriate mechanisms of automatic workload management and dynamic
provisioning of EAD services based on e.g. grid technology.
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