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Feeling overwhelmed by the buzz about SOA—service oriented architecture? Take heart!
Service Oriented Architecture For Dummies, 2nd Editionmakes it easy to understand, plan, and implement the latest SOA solutions for your business.
Whether you’re the IT person responsible for developing SOA or the executive who’s trying to get a handle on the concept, Service Oriented Architecture For Dummies, 2nd Editionwill help you understand what SOA is, why it’s important, and how you can make the most of it. You’ll find out about the business and financial aspects of SOA, how to decide if you need it, and what it can mean to your bottom line. Discover how to:
- Identify the main components of SOA and how they work to create business processes
- Create reusable, flexible systems and avoid common pitfalls
- Deconstruct business processes and applications to identify their components, then put them together in new ways
- Construct SOA business applications for maximum adaptability
- Confirm quality in a situation that’s difficult to test, and assure the quality and consistency of your data
- Develop a governance strategy for SOA based on your company’s philosophy and culture
- Work with XML and understand how it’s used in SOA
- Maximize the benefits of unified communications
- Understand software ecosystems, rich interfaces, and the development lifecycle
Packed with real-life case studies illustrating how SOA has been applied in a variety of industries, Service Oriented Architecture For Dummies, 2nd Editiondemystifies one of today’s hottest business tools.
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Provides information on service oriented architecture, covering such topics as ESB, the SOA registery, security, software development, and Oracle.
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Understand why SOA is important for business innovation and change
Feeling overwhelmed by the buzz about service oriented architecture? Take heart! This bestselling guide makes it easy to understand what SOA is, why it's important, and how your business can benefit. You'll discover how to create reusable, flexible systems; how IT and management team up to make SOA work; and what SOA means to your bottom line.
- What it is see how SOA is designed for maximum adaptability
Building blocks examine the main components of SOA and how they work
Break it to fix it learn to deconstruct business processes and applications to identify their components, then put them together in new ways
The "X" factor explore XML and how it's used in SOA
Who's the governor? develop a governance strategy for SOA based on your company's business rules and requirements
Keep it clean find out how to assure data quality and consistency
Everything in balance understand SOA in context with Web 2.0, unified communications, and cloud computing
Open the book and find:
- An easy test to determine whether you need SOA
Four common pitfalls and how to avoid them
Lessons learned from successful IT executives
The significance of using a registry and repository
How to leverage existing assets
Why identity management software matters for SOA
The benefits of SOA service management
The ROI of SOA from real-world experiences
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- SOA is the most important initiative facing IT today and is difficult to grasp; this book demystifies the complex topic of SOA and makes it accessible to all those people who hear the term but aren't really sure what it means
- This team of well-respected authors explains that SOA is a collection of applications that enables resources to be available to other participants in a network using any service-based technology
- Examines how SOA enables faster and cheaper application development and how it offers reusable code that can be used across various applications
- Covers what SOA is, why it matters, how it can impact businesses, and how to take steps to implement SOA in a corporate environment
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Get up to speed on what SOA is and how to use itMake your business more adaptable and responsive to change
Today's businesses seem to change at the speed of light, and software support structures simply have to keep up. And that's exactly what SOA is all about! Here's the scoop on creating applications and services that can be organized for reuse, easily maintained and supported, designed to produce consistent results, and shared across an enterprise.
Discover how to
- Respond more quickly to market changes
- Allow your IT staff to be more flexible
- Improve business agility
- Navigate ins and outs of SOA architecture
- Enable interaction with new business partners
About the Author
Judith Hurwitz has been a leader in the technology research and strategy consulting fields for more than 20 years. In 1992, she founded the industryleading research and consulting organization, Hurwitz Group. Currently, she is the President of Hurwitz & Associates, a research and consulting firm with a portfolio of service offerings focused on identifying customer benefit and best practices for buyers and sellers of information technology in the United States and Europe.
Judith has held senior positions at John Hancock and Apollo Computer and is a frequent keynote speaker at industry events. She earned BS and MS degrees from Boston University and was honored by Boston University’s College of Arts & Sciences, when it named her a distinguished alumnus in 2005. She is also a recipient of the 2005 Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council award.
Robin Bloor was born in Liverpool, England, in the 1950s, a little too late to become a member of The Beatles and, in any event, completely bereft of musical talent. In his late teens he went to Nottingham University, where he acquired a degree in mathematics, a love for computers, and a number of severe hangovers.
After toiling in the English IT trenches for a number of years, Robin, following in the steps of the Pilgrim Fathers, emigrated to the United States, eventually settling in Texas. In 2003, for reasons beyond his comprehension, he was awarded an honorary PhD in Computer Science by Wolverhampton University in the United Kingdom, in recognition of “Services to the IT Industry.” In 2004, he became a partner in the noted IT analyst company, Hurwitz & Associates.
Carol Baroudi makes technical concepts understandable to ordinary human beings. She’s the primary instigator and eager co-conspirator with Judith, Robin, and Marcia on their first For Dummies venture. Clocking more than 30 years in the computer industry, she’s been writing For Dummies books since 1993. (You might be familiar with The Internet For Dummies in one of its ten editions.) In 1999, she became a software industry analyst under the tutelage of Judith Hurwitz.
Marcia Kaufman is a founding partner of Hurwitz & Associates. With 20 years of experience in business strategy, industry research, and analytics, her primary research focus is on the business and technology benefit of emerging technologies. Understanding the world of business data has been one of her top priorities for many years, and today that includes data quality, business analytics, and information management.
Table of Contents
Introduction.
Part I: Introducing SOA.
Chapter 1: SOA What?
Chapter 2: Noah's Architecture.
Chapter 3: Not So Simple SOA.
Chapter 4: SOA Sophistication.
Chapter 5: Playing Fast and Loose: Coupling and Federation.
Part II: Nitty-Gritty SOA.
Chapter 6: Xplicating XML.
Chapter 7: Sealing with Adapters.
Chapter 8: The Registry and the Broker.
Chapter 9: The Enterprise Service Bus.
Chapter 10: The SOA Supervisor.
Part III: SOA Sustenance.
Chapter 11: SOA Governance.
Chapter 12: SOA Security.
Chapter 13: Where's the Data?
Chapter 14: SOA Software Development.
Chapter 15: The Repository and the Registry.
Part IV: Getting Started with SOA.
Chapter 16: Do You Need a SOA? A Self-Test.
Chapter 17: Making Sure SOA Happens.
Chapter 18: SOA Quick Start: Entry Points for Starting the SOA Journey.
Part V: Real Life with SOA.
Chapter 19: Big Blue SOA.
Chapter 20: SOA According to Hewlett-Packard.
Chapter 21: SOA According to BEA.
Chapter 22: Progress with SOA.
Chapter 23: The Oracle at SOA.
Chapter 24: Microsoft and SOA.
Chapter 25: SAP SOA.
Chapter 26: (J)Bossing SOA.
Part VI: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 27: Ten Swell SOA Resources.
Chapter 28: And That's Not All! Even More SOA Vendors.
Chapter 29: Ten SOA No-Nos.
Appendix A: Glossary.
Index.