Aspects of the present disclosure extend to methods and systems for extending services to existing enterprise systems. In various aspects, one or more service clients may be implemented to provide various functionalities for invoking a specific service that may be protocol dependent. The service client defines a set of standard service properties to specify how to access the specific service. An asset of an enterprise system intending to consume the service may integrate with the service client of the specific service and provide the standard service properties to the service client for service invocation.