Executive's Guide to Web Services (SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture)

By Mark J. Werrell and Eric A. Marks

Book Overview

Discover how Web services can improve cost-savings and make your organization more competitive. You'll get summaries of developing standards, current vendor positions (Microsoft, Novell, IBM, Oracle, Sun), and industry examples of Web services solutions and benefits.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471266523
• ISBN13: 9780471266525
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Make Business Sense of Your Web Initiatives

Web-based initiatives can be as simple or complex as looking at the night sky. The technology choices from programming languages to servers to networks to security can be overwhelming. Add to the mix the types of Internet-based business systems desired and demanded by customers along with the ability to implement them and you can find a state of confusion and uncertainty.Eric and Mark do a superb job of helping executives...

A must read for anyone venturing into Web Services!

Given the wide spread industry hype surrounding Web Services, and the appearance that every software vendor has their own definition and perspective on what really constitutes a Web Service, what do you get - A whole heap of confusion!! In tackling this confusion "Executive's Guide to Web Services," does a great job of explaining what Web Services are, and separating the business realities from the overblown hype. As such...

Great job explaining Web Services

"Executive's Guide to Web Services" starts out by providing real world examples of how and where Web services are being used today (e.g. Dunn & Bradstreet, Dell etc). These examples are used as a backdrop from which Web services concepts are introduced. Chapter 2, "Standards, Concepts and Terminology" is without doubt the most readable and comprehensive Web services primer that I've yet to find - it's worth buying the...

Excellent Business/Management Primer on Web Services

An excellent book for any business or IT executive that really needs to understand the concepts and implications of Web services. For those who need to appreciate how this technology will impact their business environment and strategic direction, but are not about to sit down and start writing the code! This book takes the reader from first principles, laying a foundation upon which the implications and potential of Web...