The Service-Oriented Enterprise: Learn Enterprise Architecture and Its Viable Services

This book explains how an enterprise architecture and viable services can be used to create a simpler and more powerful view of the enterprise as a dynamic, unified whole. It covers the basics of service-oriented architectures, the four key categories of services, and how they connect, and how to identify and describe the different types of services that you need for your enterprise.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 233 pages
Publication date: 21 March 2023
Publisher: APress

A service-oriented architecture is a fundamental aspect of many new IT applications, ranging from web development to social software and cloud computing. The same principles can be applied to every aspect of a service-oriented enterprise, not just in IT. In this book, you will explore how an enterprise architecture and viable services can be combined to create a simpler yet far more powerful view of the enterprise as a dynamic, unified whole.

You can use the ideas, principles, and methods described here in business transformation, workflow mapping, system design, and much more besides, in every type of enterprise, including those in which there may be little or no IT at all. Step by step, you will walk through the basics of service-oriented architectures, the four key categories of services, and how they connect. You will also learn how all of this comes together in real-world service design, implementation, and operations.

From this, you will discover how to identify and describe the different types of services that you need for your enterprise and how to distinguish between the services that you can safely outsource versus those that you do need to keep in-house. By the end

end of this book, you will learn how to construct function models and service models of your enterprise as a base for service-mapping and how to pinpoint and map the information you need for service management and service performance to keep everything on track to purpose.

What You'll Learn

See how an enterprise architecture can work as a literal architecture.

Understand Stafford Beers' Viable System Model and adapt it as a robust model.

Study how a Viable Services Model provides a template for service design that covers functionals, non-functionals, and operational governance for services.

Who This Book Is For

This book is for enterprise architects, IT professionals, and anyone who wants to learn more about service-oriented architecture and how it can be used to create a more efficient and effective enterprise.

Weight: 391g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781484291887
Edition number: 1st ed.