SOA Governance: Governing Shared Services On-Premise and in the Cloud (Hardcover)

“This book provides an indispensable guide for establishing a firm SOA governance foundation. Easy to read, comprehensive, pragmatic...excellent job.”

--Nick Laqua, Enterprise SOA Architect, Cathay Pacific Airways

“SOA Governance is a must-read that provides an in-depth look at the organizational, managerial, procedural, and technical aspects that any SOA project needs to consider. If you’re investing in SOA, you’ll benefit greatly by having this excellent resource available to you as you contend with the many challenges of creating your own SOA governance.”

--David E. Michalowicz, Principal, Information Systems Engineer, The MITRE Corporation

“With this book Thomas Erl [and his team] do a great job in outlining a framework to implement an SOA governance program. For each stage of the project lifecycle, necessary governance precepts and processes are described concretely by referring to the service-orientation principles and SOA patterns. This makes it an indispensable source of information for any SOA practitioner or any professional who plans to start an SOA initiative.”

--Jean-Paul De Baets, Principal SOA Architect, Fedict (Belgian Federal Government Information and Communication Technology Service)

“This book on SOA governance provides both thoughtful and carefully crafted narrative and the supplementation of poignant real-world case studies that will help practitioners calibrate guidance to realities on the ground. This is a terrific book that will be heavily used--with tab stickers, dog-ears, highlighting, and column notes abounding to show for it--as practitioners strategize and subsequently iterate through organizational learnings on their journeys to SOA maturity.”

--David S. Rogers, Manager, IEEE Conferences Business and Technology Solutions Office

“Thomas Erl’s SOA Governance clarifies the principles behind this crucial capability for SOA adoption. Finally, a contribution that serves as a guide for project managers, architects, and any related role that has a common goal: the establishment, administration, and vision behind a service-enabled enterprise. Accenture sees this book as a milestone that will support the rationale behind selling and delivering SOA governance projects around the world.”

--Dr. Matthias Ziegler, Accenture; Dr. Jure Zakotnik, Accenture; Thomas M. Michelbach, Accenture

“Thomas Erl’s SOA Governance book fills in an important missing piece for any organization wanting to move to--and succeed with--an enterprise commitment to implement SOA and realize its overarching benefits. Of equal importance, however, is the fact that the basic concepts and frameworks that the book instantiates in the context of SOA can also be productively applied in other contexts that are not formally ‘SOA-esque,’ but where complexity is in need of formal governance.”

--Charles N. Mead, MD, MSc., Senior Technical Advisor to the Director, National Cancer Institute Center for Bioinformatics and Information Technology (NCI CBIIT) Chair, Architecture Board, Health Level 7 (HL7)

“SOA Governance is the best read on governance and software delivery processes since the publication of RUP; it is the book that defines the standard Service Delivery Processes for all project lifecycle models and defines the necessary conditions and roadmap to reach SOA in the IT organization.”

--Filippos Santas, IT Architect, Credit Suisse Private Banking, Switzerland, and Certified SOA Trainer

“Achieving your service-oriented goals requires controlled growth and change, which are best accomplished through rigorous governance. The authors of this work drive to the heart of governance and show you how to manage your portfolio of services.”

--Kevin P. Davis, Ph.D., Software Architect

The Definitive Guide to Governing Shared Services and SOA Projects

SOA Governance: Governing Shared Services On-Premise and in the Cloud is the result of a multi-year project to collect proven industry practices for establishing IT governance controls specific to the adoption of SOA and service-orientation. Authored by world-renowned experts in the fields of SOA, IT governance, and cloud computing, this comprehensive book provides clear direction as to what does and does not constitute SOA governance and then steps the reader through the most important industry governance practices, as they pertain to individual SOA project lifecycle stages.

With a consistent, vendor-neutral focus, and with the help of case study examples, the authors demonstrate how to define and position precepts, organizational roles, processes, standards, and metrics. Readers benefit from thorough and visually depicted cross-references and mapping between roles, processes, precepts, and project stages, enabling them to fully explore dynamics and dependencies and thereby learn how to use these governance controls to create their own custom SOA governance systems.

This important title will be valuable to every practitioner concerned with making SOA work, including senior IT managers, project managers, architects, analysts, developers, administrators, QA professionals, security specialists, and cloud computing professionals.

Topic Areas

• Defining SOA governance
• Establishing an SOA governance office and program
• Working with proven SOA governance precepts and processes
• Identifying organizational roles and relating them to SOA governance
• Associating design-time and runtime SOA project stages with SOA governance controls
• Governance considerations specific to shared services
• Roles, precepts, and factors specific to cloud-based services
• Understanding and categorizing SOA governance products and technologies
• Applying governance controls as early as the planning stages and measuring their success in subsequent stages
• Using vitality triggers to govern shared services on an on-going basis
• SOA governance controls that pertain to business information documents and policies

"這本書提供了建立堅實SOA治理基礎的不可或缺指南。易讀、全面、務實...做得非常出色。"
--Nick Laqua, Cathay Pacific Airways企業SOA架構師

"SOA治理是一本必讀書籍，深入探討了任何SOA項目需要考慮的組織、管理、程序和技術方面。如果你正在投資SOA，擁有這個優秀的資源將對你在創建自己的SOA治理過程中面臨的眾多挑戰中大有裨益。"
--David E. Michalowicz, The MITRE Corporation資訊系統工程師

"Thomas Erl（及其團隊）在這本書中做了一個很好的工作，概述了實施SOA治理計劃的框架。對於項目生命周期的每個階段，都具體描述了必要的治理原則和流程，並參考了服務導向原則和SOA模式。這使得它成為任何SOA從業人員或計劃開始SOA倡議的專業人士的不可或缺的信息來源。"
--Jean-Paul De Baets, Fedict（比利時聯邦政府信息和通信技術服務）首席SOA架構師

"這本關於SOA治理的書提供了思考和精心製作的敘述，並補充了引人入勝的實際案例研究，這將幫助從業人員將指導調整到實際情況。這是一本非常好的書，將被廣泛使用，標籤貼紙、狗耳朵、高亮和欄位註解將證明它的價值，因為從業人員在SOA成熟度之旅中制定策略並隨後進行組織學習的迭代。"
--David S. Rogers, IEEE會議業務和技術解決方案辦公室經理

"Thomas Erl的SOA治理澄清了SOA採用的關鍵能力背後的原則。最終，這是一個為項目經理、架構師和任何相關角色提供指南的貢獻，這些角色有一個共同的目標：建立、管理和規劃服務化企業。Accenture認為這本書是一個里程碑，將支持全球範圍內銷售和交付SOA治理項目的理由。"
--Dr. Matthias Ziegler, Accenture; Dr. Jure Zakotnik, Accenture; Thomas M. Michelbach, Accenture

"Thomas Erl的SOA治理書填補了任何想要轉向並成功實施企業級SOA並實現其全面效益的組織的重要缺失。同樣重要的是，該書在SOA的上下文中實例化的基本概念和框架也可以在其他不正式的“SOA-esque”情境中產生生產力，但在這些情境中需要正式治理的複雜性。"
--Charles N. Mead, MD, MSc., 國家癌症研究所生物信息學和信息技術中心（NCI CBIIT）技術顧問，Health Level 7（HL7）架構委員會主席

"自從RUP出版以來，SOA治理是關於治理和軟件交付流程的最佳讀物；它是為所有項目生命周期模型定義標準服務交付流程的書籍，並定義了達到IT組織中的SOA所需的條件和路線圖。"
--Filippos Santas, IT架構師