Introduction

Douglas K. Barry and David Dick

One of the toughest jobs for managers today is keeping up with the rapid changes in technology. An important change in technology is that the future of software will involve service-oriented architectures (SOAs) with some form of cloud computing. More and more services are available on the Internet. Nearly every day we discover new opportunities to connect these services to create SOAs. These SOAs will require less custom software in organizations, but will likely demand more creativity in the selection and assembly of services. This is a natural evolution of software technology and will be explained in this book.

This book is a guide for the savvy manager who wants to capitalize on the wave of change ...

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