Service Oriented Architecture
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Service Oriented Architecture or “SOA” is a hot buzz word in the IT industry today. Most software technology vendors have positioned their products and services in this emerging technology driven business solution space. With increased and aggressive vendor marketing of SOA related technologies, IT and business managers need to stay informed, understand the management aspects of SOA and possess the technical knowledge necessary to ensure correct decisions (strategic and tactical) at the right time.
This book, written primarily for IT and business managers, focuses on the management oriented perspectives of SOA including specific challenges in initiating and implementing SOA related projects. As a result, this book does not cover in-depth details of the SOA technologies involved, the technical protocols and standards. Instead the book provides enough information for managers to ask the right questions, formulate business and IT strategies, and implement project management best practices that will lead to successful implementations of SOA projects.
SOA is believed to be one of the next generations of technologies, tools, and methodologies capable of rapidly delivering new, business architecture (process) driven, consumer focused information management solutions. The intention of this book is to shed light on SOA, a technical term used to identify a set of relatively recent advancements in software technologies and improvements in enterprise project management.
