Service Orient or Be Doomed!: How Service Orientation Will Change Your Business

Index

A

Abstraction, 76–80, 110

Acceptance criteria (SOA projects), 171–172

Accounting firms, as consultants, 42–45

Activity, concept of, 62

Actor (use cases), 127

Adult entertainment industry, 32–33

Agile automation, 60

Agile IT, 11, 56, 95

Agile Methodologies, 215–217, 221

Agility, see Business agility

Alignment:

business agility vs., 13

of business and IT, 29

Amazon.com, 30

American Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), 10–11

Antihype, 37

Applications:

complexity of, 40–41

defined, 40

functionality of, 39, 40

logic development for, 226–227

Application-centric tasks, 62

Application developers, selling SOA to, 186, 203

Architecture, 117–137. See also Service-Oriented Architecture

challenge of, 124–125

complete design of, 172

and complexity of IT, 117–118

definitions of, 118

as design time activity, 206

as discipline, 118–119

enterprise, 121–124

lack of tactical benefits from, 195

pilot project plan for, 171

in pilot projects, 170

points of view on, 119–120

returns from, 190

Assets, reuse of, 192

Atomic Services, 178, 213–214

Automation:

agile, 60

of business processes, 7, 57, 64–68, 109–110

paradox of, 236–237

of processes, 236–237

of procurement process, 67–68

technology for, 57

of workflows, 58–59

B

Banking industry, SOA in, 167

Basel II, 10

Best Practices Master, enterprise architect as, 132

“Big Dig” (Boston), 15

Bottom-up planning, 173–175

BPM (business process management), 64–65

BPM (business process modeling), 65

BPO (Business Process Outsourcing), ...