<P style="MARGIN: 0px">“This book provides an indispensable guide for establishing a firm SOA governance foundation. Easy to read, comprehensive, pragmatic...excellent job.”</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><I>--Nick Laqua, Enterprise SOA Architect, Cathay Pacific Airways</I></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">“<I>SOA Governance</I> is a must-read that provides an in-depth look at the organizational, managerial, procedural, and technical aspects that any SOA project needs to consider. If you're investing in SOA, you'll benefit greatly by having this excellent resource available to you as you contend with the many challenges of creating your own SOA governance.” </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><I>--David E. Michalowicz, Principal, Information Systems Engineer, The MITRE Corporation</I></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">“With this book Thomas Erl [and his team] do a great job in outlining a framework to implement an SOA governance program. For each stage of the project lifecycle, necessary governance precepts and processes are described concretely by referring to the service-orientation principles and SOA patterns. This makes it an indispensable source of information for any SOA practitioner or any professional who plans to start an SOA initiative.”</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><I>--Jean-Paul De Baets, Principal SOA Architect, Fedict (Belgian Federal Government Information and Communication Technology Service)</I></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">“This book on SOA governance provides both thoughtful and carefully crafted narrative and the supplementation of poignant real-world case studies that will help practitioners calibrate guidance to realities on the ground. This is a terrific book that will be heavily used--with tab stickers, dog-ears, highlighting, and column notes abounding to show for it--as practitioners strategize and subsequently iterate through organizational learnings on their journeys to SOA maturity.” </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><I>--David S. Rogers, Manager, IEEE Conferences Business and Technology Solutions Office</I></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">“Thomas Erl's <I>SOA Governance</I> clarifies the principles behind this crucial capability for SOA adoption. Finally, a contribution that serves as a guide for project managers, architects, and any related role that has a common goal: the establishment, administration, and vision behind a service-enabled enterprise. Accenture sees this book as a milestone that will support the rationale behind selling and delivering SOA governance projects around the world.” </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><I>--Dr. Matthias Ziegler, Accenture; Dr. Jure Zakotnik, Accenture; Thomas M. Michelbach, Accenture</I></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">“Thomas Erl's <I>SOA Governance</I> book fills in an important missing piece for any organization wanting to move to--and succeed with--an enterprise commitment to implement SOA and realize its overarching benefits. Of equal importance, however, is the fact that the basic concepts and frameworks that the book instantiates in the context of SOA can also be productively applied in other contexts that are not formally 'SOA-esque,' but where complexity is in need of formal governance.” </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><I>--Charles N. Mead, MD, MSc., Senior Technical Advisor to the Director, National Cancer Institute Center for Bioinformatics and Information Technology (NCI CBIIT) Chair, Architecture Board, Health Level 7 (HL7)</I></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">“<I>SOA Governance</I> is the best read on governance and software delivery processes since the publication of RUP; it is the book that defines the standard Service Delivery Processes for all project lifecycle models and defines the necessary conditions and roadmap to reach SOA in the IT organization.”</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><I>--Filippos Santas, IT Arch