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We are proud to announce the publication of Understanding Enterprise SOA
Understanding Enterprise SOA uses a vehicle to carry its story: an example insurance company designed to combine challenging business management situations that have occurred separately in real life. The book shows how a well-planned and executed Service-Oriented Architecture provides cost savings and solutions. “Writing this book has given me an opportunity to express in an integrated way my views on how to earn a return on investment with SOA,” said author Eric Pulier. “Doing an SOA right requires a deep understanding of both business and technology issues. I felt that a book would be the most effective way to communicate the entire range of issues involved.” Written for business managers and other non-technologists, as well as technologists who want the big picture, the book lays out the technological underpinnings of Web services and SOA in a business context. It reveals the business issues of such topics as SOA security, management, utility computing, and business process management. Reviews “This book should prove essential for any business professional evaluating or managing an SOA solution,” says Jason Bloomberg, Senior Analyst at Zapthink. “Pulier’s extensive knowledge and deep understanding of both business and technology make the book a compelling read on a complex subject.”
“If you want to make sense of all of the SOA fuss and how it fits in with the web services you’re crafting then this is definitely a good place to start.”
“Understanding Enterprise SOA is a book of choice….Through real case studies from the industry, the book holds a simple way of presenting the core of the enterprise SOA trend to the business people and the IT professionals, showing how much changes will be there crossing the fields of B2B, Business process management, real-time operations, and enterprise software development in general. The book goes on two tracks to achieve its goal of realizing enterprise SOA; Technology and People. Chapter 4 introduces the concept of SOA in an easy way, on the other track (part 2) chapter 14 introduce a (Four P’s), which is a suggested process of a four stages for the best practices in enterprise SOA. This book has really put some focused lights across the SOA area. ”
Amazon.com Reader Reviews
“Overall the tone of the book is to provide a real life feeling to the reader. Lot of imagination and prior experience in enterprises will help the reader get the message of the authors. A good book to add to the SOA library.”
“This book provides a good hands on with examples. I especially liked the section on SOA Networking and SOA Networks. ”
“Understanding Enterprise SOA is well written and very informative. Using the example company and all the other examples and illustrations makes this a refreshing read.”
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