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Emerging trends in the evolution of service-oriented and enterprise architectures
El-Sheikh E., Zimmermann A., Jain L., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2016. 265 pp. Type: Book (978-3-319405-62-9)
Date Reviewed: Mar 10 2017

Projects to modernize mission-critical IT services in established businesses suffer technical and nontechnical change management challenges. This collection of chapters presents an in-depth analysis and solutions for the technical issues.

Are you a research student or teacher of software engineering focused on enterprise IT transformation issues? Are you a practitioner in a traditional IT organization challenged to transition to agile, modern enterprise services? Eman El-Sheikh et al. have put together an excellent collection of resources for you.

Service-oriented architectures are empowering enterprise architects to respond to market shifts rapidly. This book presents a body of knowledge enabling systematic transformation to a modern digital enterprise. It qualifies to be taught as an elective/industry course on architecture practice for enterprise IT.

Initial chapters of the book focus on the important practical aspect of evolving enterprise systems. These chapters are rich with historical information and references on how the approach and tools have evolved over years of research and practice. The emerging trends of microservices and knowledge-based support systems are introduced in sufficient depth. The transition from method-driven or functional interfaces to a resource-oriented way of using REST and other similar services is well explained, with its implications to practice. It is important to comprehend the impact of service evolution on security and trust among IT systems.

Multiple chapters are dedicated to leveraging analytics for enterprise architecture management. These establish the need for integral understanding and collaborative decision-making support in the process of architectural adaptation during digital transformation.

A few chapters delve into the deeper role of IT enabling the business process and consequent changed role of the enterprise architect. There is good treatment of challenges faced by established businesses to execute digital transformation. There is in-depth treatment of the concepts behind capability-driven development, which aids in modeling application context.

The “and” in the title of the book may suggest that “service-oriented” and “enterprise architectures” are two distinct domains. Contemporary practice in enterprise architecture is service-oriented. Selmin Nurcan recognizes this in her thoughtful foreword to the book, using the term service-oriented enterprise architecture (SoEA).

This book is a modern textbook for a course on application service engineering. It can be a valuable reference for supporting the early days of a researcher in software engineering. Because the book captures research insights from more than 30 subject matter experts, the experience of the book is like attending a technically rich conference.

The practice of service-oriented architecture style is changing rapidly every day. Consequently, this book suffers from the threat of obsolescence and diminishing relevance to practice. Many problems and issues discussed in this book are less relevant to digitally native, “born in the cloud” enterprises (for example, Netflix).

Reviewer:  Sundara Nagarajan Review #: CR145114 (1705-0241)
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