Service-Driven Approaches to Architecture and Enterprise Integration

Ramanathan, Raja

Jun 2013 · IGI Global

About this ebook

While business functions such as manufacturing, operations, and marketing often utilize various software applications, they tend to operate without the ability to interact with each other and exchange data. This provides a challenge to gain an enterprise-wide view of a business and to assist real-time decision making.

Service-Driven Approaches to Architecture and Enterprise Integration addresses the issues of integrating assorted software applications and systems by using a service driven approach. Supporting the dynamics of business needs, this book highlights the tools, techniques, and governance aspects of design, and implements cost-effective enterprise integration solutions. It is a valuable source of information for software architects, SOA practitioners, and software engineers as well as researchers and students in pursuit of extensible and agile software design.

About the author

Raja Ramanathan is a Technology Advisor, Senior IT Architect, and SOA SME with over 25 years of experience in the computing industry, providing technology consulting services to Fortune 500 enterprises in the USA. Raja specializes in business and technical architecture, developing architecture vision, enterprise integration solution architecture, middleware configuration, software design and development, strategic planning, and governance consulting for mission critical projects. His technical expertise is in Java, SOA, BPM, and tools and technologies primarily from IBM and Oracle. Raja’s enterprise clients span business domains in oil and gas exploration and pipelines; energy generation, retail and wholesale; energy distribution and trading; engineering services, financial services, and software product development. Raja is an author and editor of the reference book Service-Driven Approaches to Architecture and Enterprise Integration that was published by IGI Global in 2013. His research interests are in the areas of service-driven computing, cloud computing, enterprise integration, and autonomic computing. Raja has a M.E.E in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware, USA.

Kirtana Raja, an IT Architect, has an S.B in Chemical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, S.B in Management Science from MIT Sloan, and MBA from Cornell. Notably, as writer/editor of MIT’s Tech news journal, Kirtana interviewed Chemistry Nobel Laureate Professor Richard Schrock and Apple’s Steve Wozniak on his autobiography iWoz. Kirtana has won business and technology awards from Intel, Siemens Westinghouse, Micron, Xerox, Lucent, Society of Plastics Engineers, and Acara Institute. She co-authored a research paper relating to nanotechnology while working in Nobel Laureate Alan MacDiarmid’s Laboratory. Kirtana’s areas of interest are Cloud, Social Media Analytics, and Storage Solutions. [Editor]