communications between the various hardware components an information handling system may include a business service communicatively coupled to an enterprise services bus in a service oriented architecture it is frequently useful to separate the information maintained by a system from the information that it may need to exchange with another system for example for an itinerary in a travel management application the system may maintain information about the traveler the point of origin the destination and perhaps a history of changes made to the itinerary such as the identity of the travel arranger and how the plans changed however when the traveler wants to print a copy of their itinerary only their identity and perhaps the date of travel or destination should be necessary to make the request similarly when two applications need to exchange information typically only a subset of the information maintained by either system is of interest to the other business services and business messages provide a flexible way to describe and implement solutions that take advantage of this concept business services define various operations that may be performed on business objects a business service is an application and implementation independent web service definition of a business task or tasks for example a business service for sales orders may define several operations one operation for creating an order one operation for deleting an order and one operation for checking the status of an order each of these operations will accept a different type of business message sent by a requesting application through the enterprise services bus it is also useful to use canonical models for the business objects and business services canonicalization reduces the number of data formats that the business services need to support and provides a single view of the.