100 SOA Questions - Kerrie Holley & Ali Arsanjani - Prentice Hall - 2010.pdf

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Praise for
100 SOA Questions: Asked and Answered
“In this book, Kerrie and Ali truly capture the essence of SOA and its benefits to
your Business and IT Deployments. Businesses today are desperate to be more
nimble and innovative while reducing costs—a tricky proposition. SOA enables
companies to reach these goals by tightly aligning the business and IT around the
business processes, breaking those processes into reusable business and IT services,
and allowing the underlying business and IT infrastructure to be more nimble in
supporting the business goals. Effective SOA deployments also lay the groundwork
for Cloud formations that can deliver even greater flexibility and cost saving to the
business. This book clearly shows that a visit to the land of SOA and Cloud should
be on every CxO’s bucket list for their own business.”
—Daniel A. Powers, VP Amazon Web Services Sales
“100 SOA Questions is a must-read for business and IT users who are interested in
improving business innovation and agility. Based on their real-world experiences
from hundreds of global customer engagements, Kerrie Holley and Ali Arsanjani do
an outstanding job of explaining the multiple facets of SOA and providing a
prescriptive approach to help readers incrementally unlock value from rigid
business processes and antiquated application silos.”
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—Manoj Saxena, IBM Executive and Tech Entrepreneur
“In order for IT systems to be essful in today’s world, they must be correct,
complete, and extensible. For a long time we have had systems that are point-in-
plete, partially correct, and minimally extensible. Kerrie and Ali get to the
heart of the matter when they speak to us about the DNA of a Service-Oriented
Architecture. It has been my experience in working with them that their focus in
defining granularity, composability, and loose coupling from the viewpoint and with
the help of the business stakeholders is much more than the cliché, ‘aligning IT with
the bus