Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 452 pages
- Published by: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; Rev Ed edition April 28, 2006
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0596102380
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0596102388
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Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 7 x 0.9 inches
- Weighs: 1.5 pounds
Product Description
Information Technology professionals can use this book to move beyond the excitement of web services and service oriented architecture (SOA) and begin the process of finding actionable ideas to innovate and create business value. In
Enterprise SOA: Designing IT for Business Innovation, SAP's blueprint for putting SOA to work is analyzed from top to bottom. In addition to design, development, and architecture, vital contextual issues such as governance, security, change management, and culture are also explored. This comprehensive perspective reduces risk as IT departments implement ESA, a sound, flexible architecture for adapting business processes in response to changing market conditions.
This book answers the following questions:
- What forces created the need for Enterprise Services Architecture?
- How does ESA enable business process innovation?
- How is model-driven development used at all levels of design, configuration, and deployment?
- How do all the layers of technology that support ESA work together?
- How will composite applications extend business process automation?
- How does ESA create new models for IT governance?
- How can companies manage disruptive change?
- How can enterprise services be discovered and designed?
- How will the process of adapting applications be simplified?
Based on extensive research with experts from the German
software company SAP, this definitive book is ideal for architects, developers, and other IT professionals who want to understand the technology and business relevance of ESA in a detailed way--especially those who want to move on the technology now, rather than in the next year or two.
About The Author
Dan Woods, a seasoned CTO, has built technology for companies ranging from Time Inc. New Media to TheStreet.com. He has managed the product development cycle from initial requirements through sales for web sites and
software products designed for the publishing and financial services industries. Dan has also navigated all phases of the business cycle: crafting strategy and budgets, building and managing large development teams, writing patent applications, negotiating large vendor agreements, operating data centers, communicating with board members, raising money, and selling and marketing a product. Dan is the author of two books and a frequent contributor to InfoWorld and other publications.
Reader ReviewsThis is a very helpful book on SOA because it provides the business case for SOA, an excellent technical overview, and real-life examples of how to use it. While it is written from an SAP perspective, any IT group that is investigating SOA will find value in this book -- as it describes how SOA impacts different layers of the IT stack (from persistence to business objects, to process orchestration, and uesr interfaces). It also provides actual case studies.
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