SOA End-to-End Resource Planning is a technology that optimizes deployment of services onto a SOA description of an application. The focus in EERP is on the characterization of the business characteristics of a service (called Business Quality of Service in the references listed under External Resources below), characterization and accessing the reputation of potential service providers, and Business Service-Level Agreements. See the EERP white paper approved by the committee for details and future direction.
 
The SOA-EERP Technical Committee will focus on enablers for optimization. The enablers are, for example, definitions of the framework for representing the business process service rating terms, such how to represent cost, time, value, etc. We define "optimization" as maximizing business value by enabling improved real-life eBusiness process and resource planning at both design time and run time. In particular,

• Resources are services performed by people, machines, and hardware/software applications, and represented by SOA services. Defining the qualities of such a business service will be done with metrics expressed as Business Quality of Service (BQoS). The nature of BQoS varies across industries and services.
• Business processes are optimized in order to reduce cost, improve efficiency, and otherwise improve business results. Extensions to Business Process Management Notation and execution environments such as WS-BPEL will facilitate process improvement through automatic optimization and evolution.