Succeeding with SOA: Realizing Business Value Through Total Architecture

Today, business processes and information systems are so tightly intertwined that they must be designed together, as parts of a total architecture, to realize enterprise goals. In Succeeding with SOA , Paul Brown shows how service-oriented architectures (SOAs) provide the best structure for such integration: clean, well-defined interfaces between collaborating entities. But even SOAs need to be correctly understood and implemented to avoid common failures. Drawing on decades of experience, Dr. Brown explains what business managers and IT architects absolutely need to know--including critical success factors--to undertake this essential work.

Coverage includes

• Setting clear and reasonable expectations for SOA's benefits
• Understanding why conventional project management techniques don't scale to today's enterprise-wide projects
• Defining a living roadmap for developing services based on business priorities
• Establishing coherent leadership that brings together business executives, IT leaders, and the SOA architecture group
• Using Total Architecture Synthesis (TAS) to rapidly develop business processes and information systems together
• Understanding the central role of architecture--and making sure the right architectural decisions get made

Whether you're a business or technical leader, this book will help you plan, organize, and execute SOA initiatives that meet or exceed their goals--now, and for years to come.

Paul C. Brown is Principal Software Architect at TIBCO, a world leader in enterprise software and services (tibco.com). His model-based tool architectures underlie applications ranging from process control interfaces to NASA satellite mission planning. Dr. Brown's extensive design work on enterprise-scale information systems led him to develop the total architecture concept. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.