Service Orient or Be Doomed!

Jason Bloomberg (Uxbridge, MA), ZapThink senior analyst, has a diverse background in eBusiness technology management and industry analysis, including serving as a senior analyst in IDC's eBusiness Advisory group, as well as holding eBusiness management positions at USWeb/CKS (later marchFIRST) and WaveBend Solutions (now Hitachi Consulting). He has a bachelor's degree in physics from Pomona College, and Masters degrees in mathematics and history & philosophy of science from the University of Pittsburgh. Ronald Schmelzer (Waltham, MA), ZapThink senior analyst and founder, is a well-known expert in the field of XML and XML-based standards and initiatives. He has been featured in and written for periodicals, and has spoken at numerous industry conferences including XML One, Comdex, and Internet World on the topic of XML. Schmelzer has served as the chair of the RosettaNet Cluster 1 Workgroup, working group member of CPExchange, member of the UDDI advisory group, and was a member of the CompTIA Electronic Commerce Standards Board (ECSB). He was named "Geek of the Week" in Internet Magazine and was listed in Boston Magazine's Internet Top 40. Schmelzer received a B.S. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

• Preface. CHAPTER 1: The Business Inflexibility Trap.The Mother of All Business Problems.One Constant Is Change.Compliance Conundrum.Need for Business Agility.CHAPTER 2: If You’re in a Hole, the First Thing to Do Is Stop Digging.IT Decision Making’s Fatal Flaw.The IT “Rat’s Nest”.Why Are the Nerds Sitting at Their Own Table?CHAPTER 3: What Really Happened to eBusiness.eBusiness was a Great Idea, so What Happened?eBusiness Is Dead! Long Live eBusiness!How to Think like an eBusinessperson.Why Aren’t the Systems Integrators Helping Anymore?Thrift: Get Used to It.CHAPTER 4: What Do You Want Your IT to Do, Anyway?Everyone’s a Grandma.Middleware: Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem?Automation Paradox.Business Process: Sweetness and Light or Evil Hellspawn?Missing Link in the IT Chain.Who’s in Control of IT Anyway?CHAPTER 5: The Secret Sauce: Loose Coupling.Tale of Distributed Computing.Power of Abstraction.Role of Open Standards.Running IT Like a Railroad.How to Think Loosely Coupled.Secret of the Best Ice Skaters.How Loose Is Your Coupling?CHAPTER 6: Service Orientation: Light at the End of the Tunnel.What’s a Service, Anyway?Services + Loose Coupling = Agility.Process This!How Service-Oriented Process Replaces Traditional Integration.CHAPTER 7: Is There an Architect in the House?New Discipline of Architecture.Just How Big Is the Big Picture?Putting All the Pieces Together.Where Are the Architects?Whither the IT Department?CHAPTER 8: How to Think Service Oriented.When Not to Use Service-Oriented Architecture.Keeping Up with the Competition.Service Orientation for Big Fish.Service Orientation for Small Fish.SOA to Stay Out of Jail.SOA for User Empowerment.SOA for Value Chains.CHAPTER 9: Okay, So Where Do We Start?Identifying the Problem.Choosing Your Battles.Top-Down Planning and Bottom-Up Planning.Closer Look at Process Decomposition.Find Your Champion.CHAPTER 10: Tackling the Inertia in the Organization.Selling Service Orientation to Your Boss, Team, and Company.Quantifying the Cost and the Return on the Service Orientation Investment.Money, Money, Money: Where Will It Come from to Pay for SOA?Reaching the SOA Tipping Point.Return of the Luddites.New Service-Oriented Organization.CHAPTER 11: Build Agility with Agility.Death to the Software Development Lifecycle!Lego Block Model of Service Orientation.Four Pillars of Service-Oriented Development.Not Your Parents’ Requirements Gathering.Build, Buy, or Repurpose?Reuse: The Holy Grail of IT.CHAPTER 12: Becoming a Service-Oriented Enterprise.Making IT Matter.Building Metaprocesses.Connecting the Dots: Service Orientation, Outsourcing, and the Industrialization of IT.Sunset of Legacy.Vision of the Business Web.What Does It All Mean?Index.