Overview"By delivering SAP's next-generation applications based on a
Services-Oriented Architecture, SAP is at the forefront of making
Web services work for the enterprise. The Enterprise Services
Architecture enables unprecedented flexibility in business process
deployment, allowing companies to execute and innovate end-to-end
processes across departments and companies, with minimum disruption
to other systems and existing IT investments. This strategy comes
to life with SAP NetWeaver, which is the technological foundation
of the Enterprise Services Architecture. It provides easy
integration of people, information, and systems in heterogeneous IT
environments and provides a future proof application platform.
Enterprise SOA provides readers with the architectural
blueprints and SOA-driven project management strategies that are
required to successfully adopt SOA on an enterprise level."
—Dr. Peter Graf, SVP Product Marketing,
SAP
The SOA principles outlined in this book enable enterprises to
leverage robust and proven middleware platforms, including CORBA,
to build flexible and business-oriented service architectures. The
authors also clearly describe the right strategies for using Model
Driven Architecture (MDA) to manage SOA Service Repositories in a
platform-independent way, enabling enterprises to better address
the problem of heterogeneity at many levels. The Object Management
Group was created just to address this central problem of
integration in the face of constantly changing heterogeneity and
platform churn, so I strongly recommend this book for the bookshelf
of every enterprise architect and developer.
—Richard Mark Soley, Ph.D. chairman and
chief executive officer, Object Management Group, Inc.
Enterprise SOA provides strategies that help large enterprises
to increase the agility of their IT systems—one of the most
pressing issues of contemporary IT. Covering both a business and
architectural view, these strategies aim to promote the
implementation of an IT infrastructure that can serve as a base for
the development of truly flexible business processes. This book
covers its subject with great profoundness based on real world
evidence. It is in the interest of everybody involved with software
architecture—particularly for anybody who intends to
establish a Service-Oriented Architecture—to read this
book.
—Dr. Helge Heß, director Business
Process Management, IDS Scheer AG
"...The SOA principles described in this book are the foundation
on which enterprises can build an IT architecture that will satisfy
today's most important IT requirements—agility and
flexibility—at affordable costs..."
—Martin Frick, Head of IT, Winterthur
Group
Providing the roadmap for delivering on the promise of
Service-Oriented Architecture
Enterprise SOA presents a complete roadmap for leveraging the
principles of Service-Oriented Architectures to reduce cost and
risk, improve efficiency and agility, and liberate your
organization from the vagaries of changing technology.
Benefit from the lessons of four enterprise-level SOA case
studies from Credit Suisse, Halifax Bank of Scotland, and other
world-class enterprises
Make your business technology independent and manage
infrastructure heterogeneity by focusing on architecture, not
specific implementation techniques
Recognize the technical and nontechnical success factors for
SOA in the enterprise
Define and communicate the economic value proposition of an
SOA
Apply pragmatic design principles to solve the problems of data
and process integrity in an SOA environment
Whether you're a manager, architect, analyst, or developer, if
you must drive greater value from IT services, Enterprise SOA will
show you how—from start to finish.
About the Authors
DIRK KRAFZIG, KARL BANKE, and DIRK SLAMA
have many years of experience in enterprise IT, including project
management and distributed system design for large-scale projects.
This book subsumes the knowledge of Service-Oriented Architectures
that they have acquired since 1998, when they made their first
steps toward this new architecture paradigm.
About the Web Site
Web site www.enterprise-soa.com,
provides a variety of supplemental material, including: articles,
examples, and additional case studies.
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