Business Services Orchestration
The Hypertier of Information Technology

The new wave in business process re-engineering. Contains in-depth architecture, methodology, technologies, and a real use case.

Waqar Sadiq (Author), Felix Racca (Author), Michael Hammer (Foreword by)

9780521819817, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 3 February 2003

400 pages, 50 b/w illus.
24.3 x 18.4 x 2.4 cm, 0.795 kg

This book introduces a new, unique, and far-reaching industry technology, Business Service Orchestration (BSO). BSO encompasses the art of orchestrating the interactions between business services. These business services may represent internal business processes of organizations. Integration of many of these internal legacy, custom and COTS applications may, in turn, create these services. This book focuses on the importance of orchestration and how it enables IT professionals to develop and design highly effective and efficient business systems of the future. The book is divided into three major sections. Section I provides a detailed overview of business services and their orchestration and describes an in-depth architecture necessary to provide a web of business services, and orchestration of their interactions, including a methodology for modeling the BSO. Section II focuses on technologies necessary to orchestrate business services, ranging from component models to programming languages to various kinds of protocols. Section III reveals a real use case and explains how to apply orchestration to a real-life business process.

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.

Subject Areas: Computer science [UY], Business mathematics & systems [KJQ]