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Enterprise SOA: Designing IT for Business Innovation
Information Technology professionals can use this book to
move beyond the excitement of web services and service
oriented architecture (SOA) and begin the process of finding
actionable ideas to innovate and create business value. In
Enterprise SOA: Designing IT for Business Innovation, SAP's
blueprint for putting SOA to work
is analyzed from top to
bottom. In addition to design, development, and
architecture, vital contextual issues such as governance,
security, change management, and culture are also explored.
This comprehensive perspective reduces risk as IT
departments implement ESA, a sound, flexible architecture
for adapting business processes in response to changing
market conditions.
This book answers the following questions:
What forces created the need for Enterprise Services
Architecture?
How does ESA enable business process innovation?
How is model-driven development used at all levels of
design, configuration, and deployment?
How do all the layers of technology that support ESA work
together?
How will composite applications extend business process
automation?
How does ESA create new models for IT governance?
How can companies manage disruptive change?
How can enterprise services be discovered and designed?
How will the process of adapting applications be simplified?
Based on extensive research with experts from the German
software company SAP, this definitive book is ideal for
architects, developers, and other IT professionals who want
to understand the technology and business relevance of ESA
in a detailed way--especially those who want to move on the
technology now, rather than in the next year or two.
Foreword
Preface
Part One. The Context for ESA
1. ESA in the World of Information Technology
2. The Business Case for ESA
3. Evolving Toward ESA
Part Two. Conceiving a Vision for ESA
4. ESA Fundamentals: Learning to Think ESA
5. The Structure of ESA
6. The Enterprise Services Community
7. Creating a Roadmap with the ESA Adoption Program
Part Three. Consuming Services
8. The Enterprise Services Repository and the Enterprise Services Inventory
9. Project Mendocino: A Product Based onConsuming Enterprise Services
10. ESA at Work: Examples from the Field
Part Four. Composing Services
11. SAP xApps Composite Applications for Analytics
12. The Architecture and Development Tools ofComposite Applications
13. Supporting Composite Applications
Part Five. Creating Services
14. Web Services Basics
15. Creating Enterprise Services in ABAP
16. Creating and Consuming Services in Java
Part Six. Controlling Services
17. ESA and IT Governance
18. ESA Life Cycle Management and Operations
19. ESA Security
20. Standards and ESA
Index
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