Chapter 1. An Enterprise IT Renovation Roadmap


This book makes a big promise: It is offering an IT renovation roadmap, which will leverage the concepts of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) on both the technical and organizational levels in order to create sustainable improvements in IT efficiency and agility. The aim of this roadmap is to strike a good balance between immediate gains on one hand and long-lasting improvements to the enterprise IT landscape on the other. An SOA should increase the capability of an enterprise to address new business requirements on the short term by reusing existing business logic and data models, thus incurring only minimal cost, resource, and time overheads, while minimizing risks, especially when compared to rewriting entire application systems. In addition, an SOA should provide endurable benefits in terms of agility because it provides a long-term strategy for the increase of the flexibility of an IT infrastructure.

This chapter closely looks at the problems faced by enterprise software today, the resulting requirements for an enterprise IT architecture such as an SOA, and how such an architecture can be established on the organizational level.



    Enterprise SOA. Service-Oriented Architecture Best Practices
    Enterprise SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture Best Practices
    ISBN: 0131465759
    EAN: 2147483647
    Year: 2003
    Pages: 142

    flylib.com © 2008-2017.
    If you may any questions please contact us: flylib@qtcs.net