Cisco Cisco Process Orchestrator 3.0 User Guide

The following sections provide some service definition examples.

An example of the usefulness of Service-Oriented Orchestration is the ability to model a distributed 
application and provide its provisioning and ongoing operations. To the business, an application and its 
elements are not important by themselves; the application is important for the service it provides to the 
business. For example, an application may provide customer support, order entry, or partner billing. Let's 
pick one of these, say customer support. The customer support service in this example is provided by a 
distributed application that consists of a number of web servers behind a load balancer, a database, a 
cluster of application servers, and an LDAP repository for user credentials. Each application server 
ultimately runs on a UCS blade, which is in turn related to a UCS Manager. Moreover, each of these 

Incident (related to 
configuration item)

Incident (Related 
to Target)

Change Request 
(related to 
configuration item)

Change Request 
(Related to Target)

Automation Pack

Cloud Service 
Archive (CSAR)

Files in an 
Automation Pack

Artifact

Class Interface

No explicit term 

 

The collection of 
all processes that 
act on a Target 
Type, including 
their input and 
output parameters

Class Interface

Interface

“This” reference in 
a method

Process Target

Abstract class

“Targets of this 
type can be 
created” checkbox 
on a Target Type

Abstract type

Dynamic binding, 
overriding, 
polymorphism

Achievable in 
processes