Web Services: A Manager's Guide

Praise for Web Services

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“'Application integration is hard,' says Anne, and she sure is right. Unfortunately, the nature of the beast is to expect and demand easy answers to hard problems, and the management, technology and deployment problems are legion in application interoperability. Nevertheless, we have no choice if we want to create a more streamlined, efficient enterprise, and lower the cost of interacting with our suppliers and customers. Anne Thomas Manes gives the most cogent and clear explanation to date of how the Web Services revolution can help an enterprise reach those goals. Together with an architecture decision process and an IT organization that understands the business and architecting solutions, this book goes a long way ...