Upper Saddle River, NJ, (November 1, 2005) -- IBM Press^TM, the official publisher of IBM books for professionals and students, today announced publication of Service-Oriented Architecture Compass: Business Value, Planning, and Enterprise Roadmap. The book is a complete resource for planning, implementing, and managing Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), with an emphasis on how SOA drives real business value and enables IT processes to align with business needs and objectives.

Service-Oriented Architecture Compass is the first book in the new IBM Press developerWorks® Series, through which print books and the Web are designed to be mutually supportive. Series publications will be complemented by resources on the developerWorks website (ibm.com/developerworks/dwbooks), including articles, tutorials, forums, software, and much more.

The book is authored by members of the IBM Enterprise Integration Team: Norbert Bieberstein; Marc Fiammante; Sanjay Bose; Keith Jones; and Rawn Shah, developerWorks Community Editor. These five authors share their experiences in helping IBM enterprise customers migrate to SOA -- resulting in the book’s blend of principles and practical "how-to" guidance.

Service-Oriented Architecture Compass delivers almost 300 pages of thorough description and instruction, opening with a basic introduction to SOA and tips on making a business case for it, followed by an explanation of critical top-level business trends. The authors then lay out the technical requirements for SOA, including architecture elements, project planning, aspects of element and design, non-functional requirements, and security. The book concludes with case studies in insurance and government services that demonstrate real-life implementations of SOA, with closing remarks on its future.

"The business agility gained from architecting a service-oriented system involves both people processes and software processes, and finding a common means of integration between the two," said Shah. "This book talks not only about the many technical elements of an SOA but also how to engender change in the processes of your business, to bring the two together into a truly service-oriented system."

Service-Oriented Architecture Compass (ISBN 0131870025) has an accompanying website, ibmpressbooks.com/title/0131870025, where there is a sample chapter available for download. The book is available through major chain and independent booksellers worldwide and through online vendors at a suggested retail price of US $44.99.

Service-Oriented Architecture Compass is the newest addition to IBM Press?, a publishing partnership between IBM Corp. and Pearson Education.

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Note To Editors:

ADVANCE PRAISE QUOTES FOR COMPASS

• "I am extremely impressed by the depth and scale of this book! The title is perfect - when you know where you want to go, you need a compass to guide you there! After good IT strategy leads you to SOA, this book is the perfect vehicle that will drive you from dream to reality. We in DSK Bank will use it as our SOA bible in the ongoing project."-Miro Vichev, CIO, DSK Bank, Bulgaria, member of OTP Group
• "This book is a major improvement in the field. It gives a clear view and all the key points on how to really face an SOA deployment in today’s organizations."- Mario Moreno, IT Architect Leader, Generali France
• "This book is a welcome addition to SOA literature. It articulates the business case and provides practical proven real-world advice, guidance, tips, and techniques for organizations to make the evolution from simple point-to-point web services to true SOA by addressing such topics as planning, organization, analysis and design, security, and systems management.-Denis O’Sullivan, Fireman’s Fund Enterprise Architect
• The book Service-Oriented Architecture Compass shows very clearly by means of real projects how agile business processes can be implemented using Service-Oriented Architectures. The entire development cycle from planning through implementation is presented very close to practice and the critical success factors are presented very convincingly.-Professor Dr. Thomas Obermeier, Vice Dean of FHDW Bergisch Gladbach Germany

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