Succeeding with SOA: Realizing Business Value Through Total Architecture

by Paul C. Brown

A software architect at TIBCO Software, Inc., discusses the principles of business process management; shares a variety of innovative and effective solutions for accomplisinging enterprise goals; and explains how to use service-oriented architecture (SOA) to manage risk, analyze and test IT projects, incorporate the essential keys for successful implementation, and more. Original. (Intermediate)

278 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2007

Reviews

[Steve Whiting]

If you are a high-level manager or executive who has heard about SOA and wonders what it means, whether it can be of use to you in your company and what challenges it brings, this book will give you an easily digestible introduction to the subject, albeit one which has a substantial pitch for elevating Enterprise Architecture.

If you're looking for a book which gives you practical information on designing and implementing SOA, this is not that book, as it contains an awful lot of information on project set-up, risk management and organisational structure, and not very much at all on SOA.

With the number of references to the companion book, and looking at the large print size and the amount of content which wasn't specific to an SOA environment, I can't help but feel that one book's worth of material has been stretched out over two books.