The Agile Architecture Revolution - How Cloud Computing, REST-Based SOA,
and Mobile Computing Are Changing Enterprise IT
Book description
A sneak peek at up-and-coming trends in IT, a multidimensional vision
for achieving business agility through agile architectures
The Agile Architecture Revolution places IT trends into the
context of Enterprise Architecture, reinventing Enterprise
Architecture to support continuous business transformation. It focuses
on the challenges of large organizations, while placing such
organizations into the broader business ecosystem that includes small
and midsize organizations as well as startups.
- Organizes the important trends that are facing technology in
businesses and public sector organizations today and over the next
several years
- Presents the five broad organizing principles called
Supertrends: location independence, global cubicle,
democratization of technology, deep interoperability, and complex
systems engineering
- Provides a new perspective on service-oriented architecture in
conjunction with architectural approaches to cloud computing and
mobile technologies that explain how organizations can achieve
better business visibility through IT and enterprise architecture
Laying out a multidimensional vision for achieving agile
architectures, this book discusses the crisis points that promise
sudden, transformative change, unraveling how organizations' spending
on IT will continue to undergo radical change over the next ten years.
