Business Services Orchestration: The Hypertier of Information Technology

by Waqar Sadiq, Felix Racca, Michael Hammer

Overview

This book introduces an original and far-reaching industry technology: Business Services Orchestration. BSO is the art of orchestrating the interactions between business services that may represent internal business processes of organizations. Waqar Sadiq and Felix Racca show how BSO enables information technology professionals to develop and design efficient business systems. In Section I they describe an in-depth architecture and methodology for modeling the BSO. Section II focuses on technologies, ranging from component models to programming languages to various kind of protocols. A case study in Section III explains how to apply orchestration to an actual business process.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521819817
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	02/03/2003
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	7.24(w) x 9.57(h) x 0.94(d)

Table of Contents

Forword Michael Hammer; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. Introduction: 1. A holistic view of enterprise systems; 2. Process of orchestration; 3. The Hyper Tier of IT; 4. The methodology of orchestrating and interpreting for success; Part II. The Technologies/Standards for Business Service: 5. Basic application and data services; 6. Business services aggregation; 7. Modeling the orchestrations; 8. Deploying services orchestrations; 9. Discovering services; 10. Training the orchestrations; 11. Integrating human services; Part III. Putting Service Orchestration to Use: Index.