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Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures: The Savvy Manager's Guide (The Savvy Manager's Guides)
 
 

Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures: The Savvy Manager's Guide (The Savvy Manager's Guides) (Paperback)

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  • Paperback: 245 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (28 May 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1558609067
  • ISBN-13: 978-1558609068
  • Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 704,745 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"The discussion on the common beliefs about enterprise architectures and how they relate to Web services is a gem and worth the price of the book. Similarly insightful chapters cover the impact of Web services on the enterprise, adoption steps and change management issues in implementing Web services projects. This a great book that every manager contemplating a Web services project should read." - Toufic Boubez, Ph.D., Author of "Building Web Services with Java: Making Sense of XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI"


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Web services are leading to the use of more packaged software either as an internal service or an external service available over the Internet. These services, which will be connected together to create the information technology systems of the future, will require less custom software in our organizations and more creativity in the connections between the services. This book begins with a high-level example of how an average person in an organization might interact with a service-oriented architecture. As the book progresses, more technical detail is added in a "peeling of the onion" approach. The leadership opportunities within these developing service-oriented architectures are also explained. At the end of the book there is a compendium or "pocket library" for software technology related to service-oriented architectures.

· Only web services book to cover both data management and software engineering perspectives, excellent resource for ALL members of IT teams
· Jargon free, highly illustrated, with introduction that anyone can read that then leads into increasing technical detail
· Provides a set of leadership principles and suggested application for using this technology.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent introduction to web services, 18 Aug 2003
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Excellent introduction to web services and associated architectures. The author writes very clearly and the book is extremely easy to read (until you get to the reference sections at the back...) The author incorporates his experience in a very practical way (e.g. going through the 5 steps to full adoption of web services, along with staffing and likely issues). Suggested architectures are also interesting and useful, as is the section on people-centric change issues encountered in a large technology project (and how they can be addressed). All the diagrams are extremely clear (no mean feat!) and the associated website is also very worthwhile.

However, the book sometimes feels slightly prescriptive, with possibly not enough weight given to the integration of packaged solutions. Also, the welter of terms and standards bodies could be sifted objectively: which ones carry most weight? Is Oasis really the decisive standards-setting body the author implies?

On the whole, very manageable and, as an informed introduction for technically-literate managers, well worth a read.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent overview, 8 Jul 2003
By Machinetta (Budapest) - See all my reviews
This book has proved surprisingly impressive, covering all aspects of this hot topic from the outside (i.e. starting by showing what web services are and how they interact) in (i.e. moving to focus on the underlying technology).

Not amazingly technical, this is probably more for business leaders and analysts, who need to understand how SOAs work rather than actually putting them together themselves. However, it is bang up to date, extremely readable, clear and concise, and provides a good framework.

It is also very strong on the change management side of things, refreshingly devoting substantial time to considerations of the effect on end users of introducing these technological changes.

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