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Author: Juneja, Girish; Dournaee, Blake; Natoli, Joe; Birkel, Steve
Isbn 13: 9781934053027
ISBN: 1934053023
Publisher: Intel Press
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Is your organization ready to adopt a service oriented approach to information technology? Have you ever wondered if Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) deployments in other organizations have been successful? How did they approach the deployment? The authors of this definitive book on SOA debunk the myths and demonstrate through examples from different vertical industries how a "crawl, walk, run" approach to deployment of SOA in an IT environment can lead to a successful return on investment. One popular argument states that SOA is not a technology per se, but that it stands alone and can be implemented using a wide range of technologies. The authors believe that this definition, while attractive and elegant, doesnt necessarily pass pragmatic muster. Service Oriented Architecture Demystified describes both the technical and organizational impacts of adopting SOA and the pursuant challenges. The authors demonstrate through real life deployments why and how different industry sectors are adopting SOA, the challenges they face, the advantages they have realized, and how they have (or have not) addressed the issues emerging from their adoption of SOA. This book strikes a careful balance between describing SOA as an enabler of business processes and presenting SOA as a blueprint for the design of software systems in general. Throughout the book, the authors attempt to cater to both technical and organizational viewpoints, and show how both are very different in terms of why SOA is useful. The IT software architect sees SOA as a business process enabler and the CTO sees SOA as a technology trend with powerful paradigms for software development and software integration. SOA can be characterized in terms of different vertical markets. For each such market, achieving SOA means something different and involves different transformational shifts. The vertical markets covered include healthcare, government, manufacturing, finance, and telecommunications. SOA considerations are quite different across these vertical markets, and in some cases, the required organizational shifts and technology shifts are highly divergent and context dependent. Whether you are a CTO, CIO, IT manager, or IT architect, this book provides you with the means to analyze the readiness of your internal IT organization and with technologies to adopt a service oriented approach to IT. 193405304XSuccessful companies actively cultivate new ideas, put those ideas to work quickly and efficiently, and harvest the business value benefits of successful innovations. Discussions of innovation often focus on what a company offers, that is, its products and services. In Managing Information Technology Innovation for Business Value, Esther Baldwin and Martin Curley show how successful IT innovations pay back handsomely as well. Innovation is not just about what a company offers, innovation is also about how a company conducts business and how IT innovation can transform an organization into a significantly more efficient company. Drawing on their experience with innovation in Intels engineering operations, Baldwin and Curley emphasize that IT innovation does not require wholescale invention. An innovative IT solution reapplied in a new context can provide even greater business value because the initial investment in developing the solution has already been made. Baldwin and Curley highlight the importance of diffusion, which in the context of IT innovation is the acceptance of a new IT solution. An innovation leading to a quality IT solution that does not diffuse cannot contribute to business value. The authors provide a multitude of techniques and methods that improve the likelihood of successful diffusion. Usercentered design, for example, increases the likelihood of a successful match between an innovative IT solution and the needs of a community of users. Systemic innovation results when innovative excellence is woven in the fabric of a company's business processes. Like quality and safety, innovation competencies affect all business functions on an ongoing basis. The culture of the company, its values and its management methods, come together to support the innovator, reward successful innovations, and learn important lessons when innovations go astray. Managing Information Technology Innovation for Business Value includes examples and case studies from IT organizations as well as from Intel Corportation. It also includes assessment techniques, skill set descriptions, and a capability maturity framework to help IT organizations understand where they stand as innovators and what steps they can take to strengthen their competencies. The companion Web site provides all code examples presented in the book and an evaluation version of the Intel Integrated Performance Primitives.
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