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In Enterprise SOA: Designing IT for Business Innovation, Dan Woods and Thomas Mattern analyze SAP's blueprint for putting SOA to work. In addition to design, development, and architecture, vital contextual issues such as governance, security, change management, and culture are also explored.

The Project

Evolved Media was approached by SAP to create a book that would help IT professionals to put enterprise SOA to work by exploring design and development as well as contextual issues, such as governance, security, change management, and culture.

Evolved Media’s Role

Evolved Media conducted extensive research, interviewing professionals from SAP, Gartner, Forrester, and others in 120 interviews. A team of six wrote a total of 20 chapters.

The Result

A 452-page book that offers a comprehensive solution for reducing risk for IT departments wanting to implement enterprise SOA—a sound, flexible architecture for adapting business processes in response to changing market conditions. This definitive book is ideal for architects, developers, and other IT professionals who want to understand the technology and business relevance of ESA in a detailed way—especially those who want to move on the technology now, rather than in the next year or two.

This book answers the following questions:

• What forces created the need for enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture?
• How does ESA enable business process innovation?
• How is model-driven development used at all levels of design, configuration, and deployment?
• How do all the layers of technology that support enterprise SOA work together?
• How will composite applications extend business process automation?
• How does enterprise SOA create new models for IT governance?
• How can companies manage disruptive change?
• How can enterprise services be discovered and designed?
• How will the process of adapting applications be simplified?