Succeeding with SOA: Realizing Business Value Through Total Architecture

Description
This book shows how service-oriented architectures (SOAs) provide the best structure for information systems and business process integration.

Program

Buy this essential service-oriented architecture guide today!Today, business processes and information systems are so tightly intertwined that they must be designed together, as parts of a total architecture, to realise enterprise goals. This book shows how service-oriented architectures (SOAs) provide the best structure for such integration: clean, well-defined interfaces between collaborating entities.
But even SOAs need to be correctly understood and implemented to avoid common failures. This book explains what business managers and IT architects absolutely need to know, including critical success factors, to undertake this essential work.

Key Features and Benefits:

• Covers setting clear and reasonable expectations for SOA's benefits - giving you a clear understanding what you can and cannot expect from your SOA project.
• Details why conventional project management techniques don't scale to today's enterprise-wide projects, giving you thorough understanding of this critical information.
• Shows how to define a living roadmap for developing services based on organisational priorities, helping you to set a clear agenda for your project.
• Covers how to go about establishing coherent leadership that brings together business executives, IT leaders, and the SOA architecture group. Helping you to improve communication in your SOA project.
• Using Total Architecture Synthesis (TAS) to rapidly develop business processes and information systems together, detailing step-by-step instructions for this comprehensive approach.

Author: Paul Brown
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN 10: 0321508912
ISBN 13: 9780321508911
Pages: 288
Format: Softcover
Published Date: 2 May 2007
Availability: In Stock


Whether you're a business or technical leader, this book will help you plan, organise, and execute SOA initiatives that meet or exceed their goals - now, and for years to come - buy it today!