Soa Adoption For Dummies

By Author: Mike Smith
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Discover the best way for your organization to adopt a Service Oriented Architecture! SOA Adoption for Dummies makes your journey to SOA as easy as possible. Written for people both new and familiar with SOA, the book tells in ‘plain English' what's important in an SOA adoption and how to stay focused on it!

Learn the project-oriented way to achieve your SOA vision. SOA Adoption for Dummies provides concrete and practical methods you can use to turn your SOA plans into SOA reality. The book covers how to:

- Use SOA to solve business problems

- Go from an SOA blueprint to SOA adoption

- Learn how to use SOA Governance to set up policies to guide the growth and usage of your service portfolio

- Deal with IT "tribal warfare" that impedes SOA

- Connect your SOA plans with your integration platform

Using SOA, enterprise architects create plans called SOA blueprints that guide the redesign of IT systems and organizations. Realizing these plans involves a process called SOA adoption. This book describes our approach to SOA adoption, which we call SOA rocket science. SOA adoption, ...
... like a real-world rocket, experiences a danger zone between blast-off and the weightlessness of orbit. When fully realized, SOA can transform your business. But until firmly established, your SOA dreams can plummet back to earth.

This book is focused on SOA adoption: concrete and practical methods SOA builders use to make SOA plans into SOA reality. SOA Adoption for Dummies shows you specifically what's important in SOA adoption and how to stay focused on it.

No time to read? Listen to our SOA Made Simple podcast series. Based on the book, the series features short podcasts on each chapter.

Software AG's 4,000 global customers provide testimony to its ability to deliver software for improving business processes and drive an agile IT infrastructure. Software AG's leading software portfolio helps foster new levels of IT agility through SOA and allows the rapid creation of new business processes with BPM.