Service Orient or Be Doomed!: How Service Orientation Will Change Your BusinessISBN: 978-0-471-76858-6
Hardcover
258 pages
February 2006
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"The real value of this book is that it makes SOA and Web
services, which are critical and business-transforming,
crystal-clear to the layman, both business and IT leaders. The book
stays focused on the real-world issues facing business and
government institutions today. In an industry full of experts of
many stripes, Ron and Jason are the real thing: savvy, experienced,
and realistic. They have produced a must-read book for
management."
—Paul Lipton, Senior Architect, Unicenter Web Services and
Application Management Computer Associates
"This is by far the finest publication on SOA of our time. From
cover to back, Service Orient or Be Doomed! strips away the
layers of confusion most IT stakeholders face when confronted with
enterprise architecture, and illustrates pragmatic and practical
paths towards a sustainable and efficient enterprise architecture.
Both the technically savvy and the bean counters will enjoy this
book that speaks to the critical points they need to
understand."
—Duane A. Nickull Senior Standards Strategist, Adobe Systems,
Inc. Chair, OASIS SOA Reference Model Technical Committee Vice
chair, United Nations CEFACT (UN/CEFACT)
"If you're looking for a guide that's based on reality, this is
it. These guys know how you can service-orient your enterprise and
have the best chance of success. This book is the best SOA tool you
can buy. I'm recommending it to everyone."
—Dave Linthicum, CEO, BRIDGEWERX
"Jason and Ron are experts on Service-Oriented Architecture
(SOA) and have written the first book that is aimed at helping a
nontechnical businessperson understand why the SOA computing
revolution is critical to business. Rather than provide a nerdy
death via buzzword book, Jason and Ron take a humorous, clever, and
insightful romp through this new technology and how it impacts
business in general."
—Brad Feld, Mobius Venture Capital
Authors Jason Bloomberg and Ronald Schmelzer-senior analysts for highly respected IT advisory and analysis firm ZapThink-say it all in the title of their new book, Service Orient or Be Doomed!: How Service Orientation Will Change Your Business. That is, if you fail to service orient your company, you will fail in competing with the organizations that do.
This provocative new book takes service orientation out of its more familiar technological surroundings within service-oriented architecture and introduces it as a philosophy that advocates its rightful place within a business context, redefining it as a new way of thinking about organizing your business and its processes.
Informal, challenging, and intelligent in style, Service Orient or Be Doomed!: How Service Orientation Will Change Your Business shows you how you can best use technology resources to meet your company's business goals and empower your company to go from "stuck" to "competitive."