Enterprise SOA: Designing IT for Business Innovation

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In Enterprise SOA: Designing IT for Business Innovation, SAP's blueprint for putting SOA to work is analysed from top to bottom.

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Ensure your risk associated with implementing an service-oriented architecture (SOA) are as low as possible - buy this book today!InEnterprise SOA: Designing IT for Business Innovation, SAP's blueprint for putting SOA to work is analysed 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 an enterprise services architecture (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?

This book is 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.
Key Features and Benefits:

• An overview of SAP's blueprint for putting SOA to work - helping you to understand many of the key points associated with this methodology.
• By using the step-by-step advice and guidance in this book you are reducing the risk associated with implementing an ESA.
• Covers design, development, and architecture of an SOA, as well as the vital contextual issues such as governance, security, change management, and culture. Helping you understand these critical topics.
  

Authors: Dan Woods, Thomas Mattern
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
ISBN 10: 0596102380
ISBN 13: 9780596102388
Pages: 452
Format: Softcover
Published Date: 28 April 2008
Availability: In Stock

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