Thousands of enterprises have adopted Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based on its promise to help them respond more rapidly to changing business requiremen... » 

Thousands of enterprises have adopted Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based on its promise to help them respond more rapidly to changing business requirements by composing new solutions from existing business services. To deliver on this promise, however, companies need to integrate solid but flexible Business Process Management (BPM) plans into their SOA initiatives.

Dynamic SOA and BPM offers a pragmatic, efficient approach for doing so. Top IBM® SOA architect Marc Fiammante takes you step-by-step through combining BPM and SOA, and using them together to build a more flexible, dynamic enterprise. Throughout the book, he emphasizes hands-on solutions based on his experience supporting dozens of enterprise SOA implementations. Practical from start to finish, Dynamic SOA and BPM squarely addresses two of the most critical challenges today's IT executives, architects, and analysts face: implementing BPM as effectively as possible and deriving more value from their SOA investments.

Coverage IncludesMoving from simplified integration to dynamic processes: realizing the full business value of servicesStreamlining enterprise architecture to accelerate business and IT alignmentImplementing dynamic business processes based on small, flexible modules that can be quickly modeled, tested, delivered, and improvedPlanning for services and information variability to limit the impact of change on processes and other consumers of servicesProviding an integration layer between consumers and providers that addresses issues classical Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) approaches cannot solve aloneTooling and practices for the development, management, and monitoring of the complete SOA/BPM life cycle «