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How do we start with service modeling? How do we analyze services for better reusability? Who should be involved? How do we create the best architecture model for our organization? This must-read for all enterprise leaders gives you all the answers and tools needed to develop a sound service-oriented architecture in your organization.
Praise for Service-Oriented Modeling
Service Analysis, Design, and Architecture
"Michael Bell has done it again with a book that will be remembered as a key facilitator of the global shift to Service-Oriented Architecture. . . . With this book, Michael Bell provides that foundation and more-an essential bible for the next generation of enterprise IT."
-Eric Pulier, Executive Chairman, SOA Software
"Michael Bell's insightful book provides common language and techniques for business and technology organizations to take advantage of the SOA paradigm. By focusing modeling techniques on the business problem, Bell provides a way for professionals to work throughout the life cycle to create reusable and enduring services."
-Mike Zbranak, CIO, Chase Card Services
"This book will become an imperative business and technology service-oriented modeling recipe for any manager, architect, modeler, analyst, and developer in today's software development industry."
-Jeff Schneider, CEO, MomentumSI
"'Innovative' and 'groundbreaking' are words that best describe Michael Bell's Service-Oriented Modeling. It depicts a true service modeling approach that elegantly closes a clear and critical service modeling gap in the SOA industry. This holistic book ties these concepts together using real-world examples across a service life cycle that transitions services from ideas and concepts into production assets that deliver business value. A must-read for business and technical SOA practitioners."
-Eric A. Marks, CEO, AgilePath Corporation
"As hot as SOA is today, many business and technology professionals still find it challenging to mind the gap between their disparate methodologies and objectives. Herein Michael Bell speaks clearly to both camps in straightforward language, outlining disciplines each can use to communicate effectively and advance the realization of corporate aims. This book is a bible for all who seek to drive business/technology into the future."
-Mark Edward Goodrich, Director, Investing Product Management, Reuters Media
"This book takes senior IT architects and systems designers into the depths of modeling for SOA, with a fresh new perspective on tools, terminology, and how to turn the theory into practice. His full life-cycle approach balances process, control, and accountability to align all the participants in the delivery pipeline-clearing the road for successful SOA business solutions."
-Phil Gilligan, Chief Technology Officer, EBS |
Average Customer Rating:   Fundamental to Software Architects Analysts and Developers Essential to every software manager, architect, analyst, and developer - I purchased it a couple of months ago and I keep going back to the fundamental information that it covers - The book represents a milestone in computer science and it is a must for every person that considers himself/herself business or IT professional - if you intend to design or develop software this book helps - Do not buy it if you ar not in the softwar business -
Smart Guide for Design Analysis and Business Integration I usually do not write lots of reviews for books, but this one deserves my attention.
A superb book for design and architecture of services! Strong on the business perspective and a must have.
Could be also good for integration of legacy systems.
Makes lots of sense and smart writing. I enjoyed the new brilliant ideas. Written well and includes a ton of charts and diagrames.
TOO SHORT!!!
Problem solving and solutions drive this book.
Great for business analysts and developers and architectes. Managers also must have it. It is a must.
Fantastic for Software Developers I am a Java and .NET developer. I think that this is a exceptional guide for service design. Very good for developers that develop in any language. I love the modeling material and I find the symbols for the language notation very good. Easy and fun to use.
I also like the conceptualization and the servic discovery sections
The architecture part is very useful as well
I think that this is the best design and architecture SOA book around.
Exceptional Service Development Methodology This is an exceptional personal and collective guide for professionals that are lost in the SOA space - just like me. This is especially good for understanding how services can achieve business objectives and IT needs. It is also great for software development and developers that want to know how to analyze and design services for production. In addition, architects will love it. The most impressive aspect of this book is the SOA methodology that it addresses. It looks like this is the only book on the market that tackles the modeling niche in SOA and I think that it will be a cornerstone for all books that will be written about software modeling thereafter. Great read, good ideas, and fun. I Like It... Explains SOA Modeling for software developers and Business people Before I purchased this book I was skeptical about its promise. I'm not a big fan of big title books or publishers' promotions.
But this SOA modeling book is unique. It makes sense. It is logical. It is one of the best software modeling books that I have read. I think that it is big in historical proportions.
A big part of it is a software development methodology. It is kind of a step-by-step guide to developing services. This is a guide for developing software on the application/service level and on the enterprise/service level.
The other sections introduce a modeling language for service oriented architecture. The two authors explain and justify service reuse, service composition, decomposing, usage of SOA intermediaries, usage of ESBs, usage of SOA Gateways, usage of Adapters, and business process modeling.
The book itself includes examples and diagrams for modeling but you can find more examples on different sites on the Internet.
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