This comprehensive resource covers all the components, issues, standards, and technologies that create a service-oriented enterprise. Filled with real-world examples, Service Oriented Enterprises shows IT managers, CIOs, software architects, software developers, innovative and practical service-oriented solutions. Its framework for aligning services with business goals empowers IT executives to make the right decisions about deploying service-oriented applications, architectures, and platforms. Software professionals are guided through each step of the service-oriented development process from analysis and design to content and portal integration and service management. This book also focuses on business processes and business rules in the context of Web services and service-oriented computing.
Ideas achieve their potential only if the context is appropriately understood. Without proper context even great ideas are underserved, markets are missed, and leaders of industry fall. This book provides a novel case for the business context in which to apply the important technical idea of service orientation and moves it from being an interesting tool for engineers to a vehicle for business managers to fundamentally improve their businesses.
This is a critical time for such an idea to be properly applied. An accelerating competitive drum demands that businesses change at a pace that was inconceivable a decade ago. Business must respond with ever faster continuous improvement of existing operations and the constant introduction of new products, and only companies that master the required rhythm of change will persevere and prosper. Businesses that learn to build in a capacity for rapid change are becoming the fiercest and boldest competitors.
Service orientation starts as a powerful technical idea to operationalize the goal of rapid enterprise change by allowing business processes to negotiate diverse systems. This offers a technical advantage as it becomes easier to integrate systems and to reposition existing capabilities for new purposes. Silos of technology that were hidden in arcane interfaces become reusable components that are accessible through transparent standards.