Service-Oriented Modeling (SOA): Service Analysis, Design, and Architecture [Hardcover]

Michael Bell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 25, 2008

Answers to your most pressing SOA development questions

How do we start with service modeling? How do we analyze services for better reusability? Who should be involved? How do we create the best architecture model for our organization? This must-read for all enterprise leaders gives you all the answers and tools needed to develop a sound service-oriented architecture in your organization.

Praise for Service-Oriented Modeling

Service Analysis, Design, and Architecture

"Michael Bell has done it again with a book that will be remembered as a key facilitator of the global shift to Service-Oriented Architecture. . . . With this book, Michael Bell provides that foundation and more-an essential bible for the next generation of enterprise IT."
-Eric Pulier, Executive Chairman, SOA Software

"Michael Bell's insightful book provides common language and techniques for business and technology organizations to take advantage of the SOA paradigm. By focusing modeling techniques on the business problem, Bell provides a way for professionals to work throughout the life cycle to create reusable and enduring services."
-Mike Zbranak, CIO, Chase Card Services

"This book will become an imperative business and technology service-oriented modeling recipe for any manager, architect, modeler, analyst, and developer in today's software development industry."
-Jeff Schneider, CEO, MomentumSI

"'Innovative' and 'groundbreaking' are words that best describe Michael Bell's Service-Oriented Modeling. It depicts a true service modeling approach that elegantly closes a clear and critical service modeling gap in the SOA industry. This holistic book ties these concepts together using real-world examples across a service life cycle that transitions services from ideas and concepts into production assets that deliver business value. A must-read for business and technical SOA practitioners."
-Eric A. Marks, CEO, AgilePath Corporation

"As hot as SOA is today, many business and technology professionals still find it challenging to mind the gap between their disparate methodologies and objectives. Herein Michael Bell speaks clearly to both camps in straightforward language, outlining disciplines each can use to communicate effectively and advance the realization of corporate aims. This book is a bible for all who seek to drive business/technology into the future."
-Mark Edward Goodrich, Director, Investing Product Management, Reuters Media

"This book takes senior IT architects and systems designers into the depths of modeling for SOA, with a fresh new perspective on tools, terminology, and how to turn the theory into practice. His full life-cycle approach balances process, control, and accountability to align all the participants in the delivery pipeline-clearing the road for successful SOA business solutions."
-Phil Gilligan, Chief Technology Officer, EBS

Editorial Reviews

From the Inside Flap

Service-Oriented Modeling Service Analysis, Design, and Architecture

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is the hottest topic in the IT arena. Providing a comprehensive plan to interrelate business with technology, SOA combines the talents and skills of an entire organization, with its requisite needs and computing know-how. Presenting the necessary tools—processes, best practices, and standards—for developing a sound SOA, Service-Oriented Modeling: Service Analysis, Design, and Architecture introduces a service-oriented modeling framework that employs an agile and universal business and technology language to facilitate analysis, design, and architecture initiatives.

Focusing on a general service and development life-cycle model, the service-oriented modeling disciplines presented here will enable you to not only integrate your existing legacy applications, but also to incorporate new ideas and concepts to address organizational concerns. These proposed best practices can be applied to all technologies, software platforms, and languages despite their physical location or ownership. As a bonus, business and IT professionals—including managers, business analysts, business architects, technical architects, team leaders, and developers—can now share the burden of software development initiatives as they are commissioned to bear equal responsibility and accountability throughout their organizations.

Based on author Michael Bell's twenty years of experience in the software, modeling, and architecture trenches for such high-volume clients as JPMorgan, Chase, and American Express, Service-Oriented Modeling introduces a state-of-the-art and holistic modeling language that can facilitate an SOA implementation as well as advanced service life-cycle concepts and processes that can be employed to manage service-oriented projects. The book enables business and IT personnel to equally partner in service-oriented modeling efforts and to represent their unique perspectives.

Offering easy-to-understand modeling language and notation that are simple to use, the book provides answers to the most common questions that face enterprise leaders concerning service-oriented architecture development life-cycle initiatives. The book deftly explores:

• How to establish and implement a service-oriented modeling language

• The service life-cycle model and its various building blocks

• The management of service-oriented modeling disciplines

• Service-oriented conceptualization process

• A step-by-step, easy-to-employ concept discovery process

• Service-oriented discovery and analysis mechanisms

• Service-oriented design strategies, service relationships, logical compositions of services, and service behavior analysis

• Fundamental aspects of service-oriented software architecture, including conceptual and logical architecture modeling disciplines

With the information gleaned from Service-Oriented Modeling, you will obtain a comprehensive service modeling knowledge base and reference; service modeling tools that can increase efficiency and productivity in the workplace; defined goals, milestones, and service modeling activities; and defined roles and responsibilities to get you started with SOA, ASAP.

From the Back Cover

Answers to your most pressing SOA development questions

How do we start with service modeling? How do we analyze services for better reusability? Who should be involved? How do we create the best architecture model for our organization? This must-read for all enterprise leaders gives you all the answers and tools needed to develop a sound service-oriented architecture in your organization.

Praise for Service-Oriented Modeling

Service Analysis, Design, and Architecture

"Michael Bell has done it again with a book that will be remembered as a key facilitator of the global shift to Service-Oriented Architecture. . . . With this book, Michael Bell provides that foundation and more—an essential bible for the next generation of enterprise IT."
—Eric Pulier, Executive Chairman, SOA Software

"Michael Bell's insightful book provides common language and techniques for business and technology organizations to take advantage of the SOA paradigm. By focusing modeling techniques on the business problem, Bell provides a way for professionals to work throughout the life cycle to create reusable and enduring services."
—Mike Zbranak, CIO, Chase Card Services

"This book will become an imperative business and technology service-oriented modeling recipe for any manager, architect, modeler, analyst, and developer in today's software development industry."
—Jeff Schneider, CEO, MomentumSI

"'Innovative' and 'groundbreaking' are words that best describe Michael Bell's Service-Oriented Modeling. It depicts a true service modeling approach that elegantly closes a clear and critical service modeling gap in the SOA industry. This holistic book ties these concepts together using real-world examples across a service life cycle that transitions services from ideas and concepts into production assets that deliver business value. A must-read for business and technical SOA practitioners."
—Eric A. Marks, CEO, AgilePath Corporation

"As hot as SOA is today, many business and technology professionals still find it challenging to mind the gap between their disparate methodologies and objectives. Herein Michael Bell speaks clearly to both camps in straightforward language, outlining disciplines each can use to communicate effectively and advance the realization of corporate aims. This book is a bible for all who seek to drive business/technology into the future."
—Mark Edward Goodrich, Director, Investing Product Management, Reuters Media

"This book takes senior IT architects and systems designers into the depths of modeling for SOA, with a fresh new perspective on tools, terminology, and how to turn the theory into practice. His full life-cycle approach balances process, control, and accountability to align all the participants in the delivery pipeline—clearing the road for successful SOA business solutions."
—Phil Gilligan, Chief Technology Officer, EBS

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (February 25, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470141115
• ISBN-13: 978-0470141113
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 7.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #710,017 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

MICHAEL BELL is the founder of Methodologies Corporation (www.ModelingConcepts.com), an enterprise architecture modeling firm based in New Jersey. He is a software, modeling, and architecture strategist veteran with twenty two years of experience designing, architecting, and building high-volume, real-time trading systems for Wall Street brokerage institutions, investment banking, credit card, and insurance firms. These include institutions such as JPMorgan, Chase, Citibank, American Express, and UBS PaineWebber.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

47 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Practical SOA Tips that Produce Results, February 28, 2008

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SOA Project Manager, PMP - See all my reviews

This review is from: Service-Oriented Modeling (SOA): Service Analysis, Design, and Architecture (Hardcover)

The Service-Oriented Modeling: Service Analysis, Design, and Architecture book describes the service-oriented development life cycle in detail and offers excellent project management and monitoring mechanisms. This process starts at the service-oriented conceptualization phase, continues through the service-oriented discovery and analysis, and concludes with service design and architecture. These various disciplines contribute a great deal of success to achieving project milestones and goals. This is particularly important in service oriented architecture (SOA) since often organizations are new to deploying SOA applications.

The other major benefit that is provided by this service-oriented modeling study is the recommendation to take a proactive approach when planning SOA projects. This method advocates devising an SOA development strategy that counts for unpredictable events. Indeed, this is a paradoxical approach, but these events such as recession or even future merger between organizations can immensely influence a service life cycle. Thus, rigorous planning is necessary.

This book is a must for any IT professional that is developing in a SOA environment!

46 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Innovative SOA modeling - Great read, February 19, 2008

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Hormazd M. Pochara - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Service-Oriented Modeling (SOA): Service Analysis, Design, and Architecture (Hardcover)

The Service-Oriented Modeling book introduces a new methodology, modeling language, and a service life cycle framework (service-oriented modeling framework - SOMF) that explores untouched software development and SOA specific territories. This creative and insightful testimony identifies software development, business architecture, and technical architecture industry gaps that unveil a fascinating and creative approach to viewing our current software assets and their environments.

The main practices that will chiefly contribute to any organization are:

- Service Life Cycle Planning

- Conceptual Services Discovery

- Conceptual Architecture Modeling

- Service-Oriented Analysis Modeling

- Service-Oriented Integration with Business Architecture Artifacts

- Service-Oriented Design Modeling

- Logical Architecture Modeling

But the most captivating aspect of this book is the language and the notation that will allow us to model our analysis propositions, model business and service integration, and model the design and architecture environments.
This is an imperative book for business and technology personnel, managers, architects, modelers, and developers.

I strongly recommend it.

45 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Soul of a new SOA, February 29, 2008

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D. Buckley "Architect/Consultant" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Service-Oriented Modeling (SOA): Service Analysis, Design, and Architecture (Hardcover)

In his prior book, Michael Bell gave us the tools, techniques, and practical advice required to get on the path toward a successful SOA implementation. His current book "Service-Oriented Modeling" takes us to the next SOA skill level by providing us with a service life-cycle framework, new methodology, and a new modeling language(complete with new notation).

Bell also provides us with a new perspective of Enterprise SOA.. described by some as an "SOA Ecosystem" or as the fabric which joins business and technology. "Service-Oriented Modeling" is a guide to a new way of thinking about enterprise information pathways.

It's a powerful book, it's a good read, and I highly recommend it !