InhaltsangabeService-oriented architecture (SOA) is the most important-and most misunderstood-influence on information technology (IT) strategy and enterprise architecture, a critical discipline to make Web services, and services in the general sense, work together to help organizations plan, implement, and achieve SOA value. Service-Oriented Architecture: A Planning and Implementation Guide for Business and Technology clarifies and simplifies this complex topic-and complex organizational goal-unlike any other book, with extensive treatment that equips managers to proactively realize the business goals they are seeking from SOA. ServiceOriented Architecture: A Planning and Implementation Guide for Business and Technology is applicable to all industries, technology platforms, and operating environments. It fills a need with excellent guidance from authors Eric Marks and Michael Bell, whose complementary SOA perspectivesMarks with a business and strategic perspective and Bell with a technical and architecture perspectivecreate a unified language of business that reconciles the semantic and linguistic barriers between the business and IT communities. With case studies based on the authors' experiences, this logically organized and well-written field guide is packed with real-world implementation advice for newcomer or veteran business managers and IT executives, including how to: Conceptualize and understand services in an SOA context, with an SOA vision, strategy, and road map Identify major business challenges that SOA resolves Focus your SOA efforts Identify, model, and implement services Establish your SOA technology and services integration model Define SOA governance, organization, and behavioral models Develop an architecture organization model Achieve SOA business value ServiceOriented Architecture: A Planning and Implementation Guide for Business and Technology is the lasting SOA reference guide that IT executives, architects, team leaders, and developers will turn to for its enduring relevance and pragmatic approach to the organizational and cultural issues of SOA.

ERIC A. MARKS is President and CEO of AgilePath Corporation, a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web services solutions firm. He is a software and technology services veteran with eighteen years of experience with firms including PricewaterhouseCoopers, Cambridge Technology Partners, Novell, Electronic Data Systems, StreamServe, Ontos, and Square D Company/Schneider Electric. A business author and frequent speaker on various IT topics, he serves on the Advisory Board of Directors for LogicLibrary, a leading software asset reuse firm. He lectures at Syracuse University's nationally recognized School of Information Studies and is a regular columnist for Computerworld online, Managing Automation magazine, and the industry portal SearchWebServices.com. MICHAEL BELL is the founder of Methodologies Corporation, a service-oriented architecture modeling firm based in New Jersey. He is a software, modeling, and architecture strategist veteran with twenty years of experience designing, architecting, and building high-volume, real-time trading systems for Wall Street brokerage institutions, investment banking, credit card, and insurance firms. These include institutions such as JPMorgan, Chase, Citibank, American Express, and UBS PaineWebber.

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