Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a new structure and a set of mechanisms for organizing application functionality, but the mechanisms are not the message. The real transformation comes from a new culture that springs up around the mechanisms.
Mashup Corporations is co-authored by Capgemini’s Global Chief Techology Officer, Andy Mulholland, and Intel’s Customer Solutions Group Chief Strategist, Chris S. Thomas, and tells the story of a hypothetical company that achieves a transformation based on SOA and provides many real world examples to provide support. The message of the book is synthesized in a series of rules that apply to each stage of the transition.
• A company and its customers
• A company and innovators outside the company who can lead to customers
• A company and its suppliers
• The it function and the rest of the company
• The internal parts of the it function
The culture of SOA is one of empowerment and flexibility, of change and experimentation. For SOA to work properly, many assumptions that have ruled business and IT must be abandoned. New rules will govern the creation of an SOA business culture that is focused on putting as much power as possible in the hands of those close to the customer. Such a culture leads to new markets and harvests value that was never before accessible. To make SOA work, the emergence of Shadow IT, the role of Web 2.0 Architecture, and the power of User Driven Innovation, must all be understood and leveraged.
Mashup Corporations: The End of Business As Usual is co-authored by Capgemini’s Global Chief Techology Officer, Andy Mulholland, and Intel’s Customer Solutions Group Chief Strategist, Chris S. Thomas, and tells the story of a hypothetical company that achieves a transformation based on SOA and provides many real world examples to provide support. The message of the book is synthesized in a series of rules that apply to each stage of the transition.
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