Enterprise Integration: The Essential Guide to Integration Solutions,Used

The books use of realworld case study vignettes really does go to the heart of the subject matter. This stuff is real, it has real applicability to real problems, and, as with most things in life, it shows how it all comes down to real money in the final analysis. This book shows you what your peers are doing to drive costs out of integration projects and to build new applications without reinventing the entire wheeljust a few new spokes and off you go. This is a good book. Read it. Peter Rhys Jenkins, Complex Systems Architect, Candle CorporationWhen you get two longterm, acknowledged experts on integration and interoperability together to lay out the current state of the IT universe you expect an immediate return on investmentand this book delivers. Its common knowledge that 90% of total software lifecycle cost is in maintenance and integration, and that needs to drive IT decisionmaking. With comprehensive coverage of the integration technology landscape, and clear case studies presented at every turn, this book belongs on every IT managers, every system architects, and every software developers bookshelf. Richard Mark Soley, chairman and CEO, Object Management GroupTodays myriad of integration technologies and alternatives can be daunting. This book presents a framework and process for the evaluation, design, and selection of the appropriate integration technologies to meet your strategic business needs. You will find the templates a particularly useful mechanism to jumpstart documentation and drive your decisionmaking process. Ron Zahavi, CIO, Global Business Transformation, Unisys Global Transformation Team; author of Enterprise Application Integration with CORBAIt is refreshing to read a book that presents a good business approach to the integration challenge facing most business leaders today, while at the same time educating them about the major components of the required technologies and management practices changes required. The narrative, examples, and templates establish a common reference point between the business and the technology organizations. A mustread for senior business leaders challenged with the complexities of business integration, as well as Senior IT Leaders challenged with shrinking budgets and lower tolerances for failures. Chuck Papageorgiou, managing partner, IdeasphereIntegration has, and will continue to be, one of the success indicators of any enterprise project. Failing to understand the nuances of integration is a critical mistake managers cannot afford to make. Marcia Robinson, author of Services Blueprint: Roadmap for ExecutionA muchneeded book; it ties together the business and technology aspects of information system implementation, emphasizing best practices for really getting things done. I believe that both the technical and business communities will benefit from the indepth material provided in this book. Dr. Barry Horowitz, professor of systems and information engineering, University of Virginia (former CEO, Mitre Corporation)Integration of applications, information, and business process has become todays #1 IT investment priority. Most enterprise integration books simply explain the technology. This one shows exactly how to apply it. Its a stepbystep roadmap for your entire projectfrom the earliest exploratory stages through analysis, design, architecture, and implementation.Renowned enterprise integration experts Beth GoldBernstein and William Ruh present best practices and case stud