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SOA Best Practices Report: Beyond Point-to-Point Web Services

May 2, 2010 by BPELforum

Product Description
Key Findings:

Service-oriented architectures built upon open, standards-based Web Services provide a strategic IT direction businesses need to meet their fundamental business goal: agility.
By 2010, ZapThink expects 69% of the total enterprise software market to be Service-oriented.
The overall market for products and services that support Service orientation will be over $98 billion by 2010.
Reworking existing brittle, high-cost IT infrastructures into flexible, Service-oriented architectures promises substantial long-term cost savings and revenue opportunities through increased business agility.
Service orientation represents the latest distributed computing approach to affect IT — the fourth major shift since the mid-twentieth century.
ZapThink predicts that companies will begin to accept Service orientation in 2003, and it will become the dominant distributed computing approach by 2006.

Table of Contents:

I. Report Scope
II. Context for Service-Oriented Architectures
- 2.1. What is a Service-Oriented Architecture?
  - 2.1.1. Evolution of Distributed Computing
- 2.2. Business Motivations for SOAs
  - 2.2.1. The Economics of Business Agility
III. Foundations of SOA
- 3.1. SOA Foundation: Model-Driven Architecture
- 3.2. SOA Foundation: Agile Methodologies
- 3.3. The SOA Metamodel
- 3.4. The 4+1 View Model of SOA
IV. Best Practices of SOA
- 4.1. Develop a top-down, extended enterprise SOA
- 4.2. Build & maintain a platform independent Service model
- 4.3. Maintain feedback at all points of the architecture
- 4.4. Follow Agile Methodology principles & techniques within the context of the Service model
- 4.5. Encapsulate existing/legacy functionality
- 4.6. Embrace heterogeneity/follow a federation model of software
- 4.7. Compose atomic Services into coarse-grained business Services
- 4.8. Build for consumability/broad applicability
- 4.9. Perform ad hoc upgrades
- 4.10. Prioritize SOA transition activities on the fly
V. Conclusions
- 5.1. Key Notes
- 5.2. Decision Points
- 5.3. Best Practices
- 5.4. Figures
- 5.5. Tables
- VI. Profiled Vendors

SOA Best Practices Report: Beyond Point-to-Point Web Services

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ITIL V3 Service Capability SOA – Service Offerings and Agreements of IT Services Best Practices Study and Implementation Guide – Second Edition

April 30, 2010 by BPELforum

Product Description
The first edition of this book and its accompanying eLearning course is regarded as a classic in its field. Now, in an expanded and updated version of The Art of Service’s book, the authors once again present a step-by-step guide to getting into ITIL V3 SOA.

The industry recognized best practices for Service Offerings and Agreements (SOA) can be utilized by any IT organization to assist in the development and management of high quality IT services while still maintaining cost effectiveness and customer satisfaction. To support organizations and individuals in this goal, this workbook covers practical guidance on the design and implementation of integrated end-to-end processes based on proven industry best practice guidelines.

It provides in-depth knowledge of the ITIL® SOA areas: Service Portfolio, Financial, Demand, Service Catalogue, Service Level and Supplier Management.

Service Offerings and Agreements Best Practices is designed to complement the certified ITIL V3 Capability Programs for IT Service Management. This book focuses on describing the industry best practices within this scope, including:

– Service Portfolio Management: Which seeks to provide capabilities for managing investments into IT and maximizing them for value.

- Financial Management: Providing transparency into the costs incurred in the provision of services and the development of funding models for recovering IT costs.

- Demand Management: To assist in identifying and understanding patterns of business activity that generate demand for IT services and to reduce excess capacity needs.

- Service Catalogue Management: To provide mechanisms by which the available service offerings are communicated and understood by customers and the IT organization.

- Service Level Management: Which ensures that a service-oriented approach is taken in the development of service offerings and their associated agreements with customers.

- Supplier Management: To ensure that a seamless level of quality is provided for IT services and that value for money is obtained in any supplier arrangements.

The information provided in this workbook is based on version 3 of the ITIL® framework, predominantly focusing on the volumes of Service Strategy and Service Design. This book is designed to complement the accredited online learning materials, and is an extension of the learner experience to ensure students can successfully study in accordance to their individual learning style.

Other guidance provided includes:

- Suggested templates and criteria for implementing Service Offerings and Agreements (SOA) processes.

- Explanation of the more abstract ITIL concepts to improve understanding.

- Review questions to assist in the understanding of the various SOA concepts.

Considering the increasing number of IT Professionals and their Organizations who want to be actively involved in IT Service Management, this book, should do at least as well as the first edition, which is a bestseller.

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Enterprise SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture Best Practices

April 29, 2010 by BPELforum

Product Description
This book spells out guidelines and strategies for successfully using ServiceOriented Architecture (SOA) in large-scale projects. SOA represents the latestparadigm in distributed computing and middleware development. However,SOA is not a revolution, but rather an evolution in software architecture. SOAis a collection of best practice software construction principles accompanied byproven methodologies in development and project management.This book is unique in that it offers a pragmatic approach to the topic. Theauthors borrow from their more than forty years of collective enterpriseexperience, and offer a frank discussion of the challenges associated withadopting SOA. They also help readers ensure that their organization does notbecome too closely tied to a specific technology. The result is a detailedintroduction to the topic and an architectural blueprint for implementing SOA.

Enterprise SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture Best Practices

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Dynamic SOA and BPM: Best Practices for Business Process Management and SOA Agility

April 28, 2010 by BPELforum

ISBN13: 9780137018918
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Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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Achieve Breakthrough Business Flexibility and Agility by Integrating SOA and BPM

Thousands of enterprises have adopted Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based on its promise to help them respond more rapidly to changing business requirements by composing new solutions from existing business services. To deliver on this promise, however, companies need to integrate solid but flexible Business Process Management (BPM) plans into their SOA initiatives. Dynamic SOA and BPM offers a pragmatic, efficient approach for doing so. Top IBM® SOA architect Marc Fiammante takes you step-by-step through combining BPM and SOA, and using them together to build a more flexible, dynamic enterprise. Throughout the book, he emphasizes hands-on solutions based on his experience supporting dozens of enterprise SOA implementations. Practical from start to finish, Dynamic SOA and BPM squarely addresses two of the most critical challenges today’s IT executives, architects, and analysts face: implementing BPM as effectively as possible and deriving more value from their SOA investments.

Coverage Includes

Moving from simplified integration to dynamic processes: realizing the full business value of services
Streamlining enterprise architecture to accelerate business and IT alignment
Implementing dynamic business processes based on small, flexible modules that can be quickly modeled, tested, delivered, and improved
Planning for services and information variability to limit the impact of change on processes and other consumers of services
Providing an integration layer between consumers and providers that addresses issues classical Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) approaches cannot solve alone
Tooling and practices for the development, management, and monitoring of the complete SOA/BPM life cycle

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BPEL Cookbook: Best Practices for SOA-based integration and composite applications development: Ten practical real-world case studies combining business … management and web services orchestration

April 27, 2010 by BPELforum

Product Description
Ten practical real-world case studies combining business process management and web services orchestration

Real-world BPEL recipes for SOA integration and Composite Application development
Combining business process management and web services orchestration
Techniques and best practices with downloadable code samples from ten real-world case studies

In Detail
Service Oriented Architecture is generating a buzz across the whole IT industry. Propelled by standards-based technologies like XML, Web Services, and SOAP, SOA is quickly moving from pilot projects to mainstream applications critical to business operations. One of the key standards accelerating the adoption of SOA is Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL).

BPEL was created to enable effective composition of web services in a service-oriented environment. In the past two years, BPEL has become the most significant standard to elevate the visibility of SOA from IT to business level. BPEL is not only commoditizing the integration market, but it is also offering organizations a whole new level of agility – ability to rapidly change applications in response to the changing business landscape. BPEL enables organizations to automate their business processes by orchestrating services within and across the firewall. It forces organizations to think in terms of services. Existing functionality is exposed as services. New applications are composed using services. Communication with external vendors and partners is through services. Services are reused across different applications. Services are, or should be, everywhere!

What you will learn from this book?

In the Packt book Business Process Execution Language for Web Services by Matjaz Juric, we learnt about the building blocks and how these technologies could be used to build a simple SOA solution. As organizations increase their SOA footprint, IT Managers, Architects, and developers are starting to realize that the impact of SOA on IT and business operations can be immense. After having gained confidence with web services, they want to take it to the next level. However, adopters are challenged with some basic questions – How do I SOA-enable my existing integration investment? Can I build flexible and agile business processes? How can I administer my SOA environment without spending a fortune? There have been various best practices defined around SOA, but to date these have been somewhat abstract and lacking a real-world basis. The IT community is looking for real-world examples; examples of how other companies are embarking on an SOA initiative and how to apply that industry learning to their own projects.

What makes this a Cookbook? After you have been exposed to the different ingredients (BPEL, WSDL, and web services), this book takes the adventure to the next level by helping you cook new recipes (SOA applications) using efficient kitchen techniques (best practices). 10 SOA practitioners have gotten together to share their SOA best practices and provide practical viewpoints to tackle many of the common problems SOA promises to solve. Their recommendations are based on projects in production; their existing projects could be your next ones. Through this process you’ll learn the techniques and gain the confidence to create and deliver the recipe that’s right for your particular situation.

Who this book is written for?

This book is aimed at architects and developers building applications in Service Oriented Architecture. The book presumes knowledge of BPEL, SOA, XML, web services, and multi-tier architectures.

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