The service-oriented media enterprise SOA, BPM, and web services in professional media systems

Companies worldwide are rapidly adopting Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), a design methodology used to connect systems as services, and Business Process Management (BPM), the art of orchestrating these services. Media organizations from news organizations to music and media download services to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Footen, John (-)
Otros Autores: Faust, Joey
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Focal Press c2008.
Edición:1st edition
Colección:Focal Press media technology professional.
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  • The Service-Oriented Media Enterprise: SOA, BPM, and Web Services in Professional Media Systems; Copyright; TABLE OF CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Business and Technology Changes Driving the Service-Oriented Media Enterprise; 1.1 The Unpredictability of Change; 1.2 New Distribution Platforms; 1.2.1 Television; 1.2.2 Motion Pictures; 1.2.3 The Internet; 1.2.4 Opportunities; 1.3 Media Consolidation and Regulation; 1.4 New Competition; 1.5 Changing Audience; 1.6 Increased Adoption of Information Technologies; 1.7 Collaborative, File-Based Production
  • 1.8 Increasing Automation Capabilities1.9 Conclusion; Chapter 2: An Overview of Integration Techniques in the Media Industry; 2.1 The Benefits of Good Integration; 2.2 What Is Integration?; 2.3 Approaches to Integration; 2.3.1 Vendor Verticals; 2.3.2 Best-of-Breed Solutions; 2.3.3 Custom Solutions; 2.4 Commonly Used Integration Technologies; 2.4.1 Transport Mechanisms; 2.4.2 Protocols; 2.5 Accidental Architecture; 2.6 Conclusion; Chapter 3: Service-Oriented Architecture: Definition, Concepts, and Methodologies; 3.1 Introduction; 3.1.1 History of SOA; 3.1.2 Adoption in Other Industries
  • 3.1.3 SOA in a Nutshell3.2 The Benefits of SOA; 3.2.1 Business Agility; 3.2.2 Visibility; 3.2.3 Organizational Benefits; 3.3 Services; 3.3.1 Definition; 3.3.2 Service Implementation Choices; 3.3.3 Classes of Services; 3.3.4 Service Decomposition; 3.4 Wrappers; 3.4.1 Wrapper Models; 3.4.2 Common Wrapper Problems; 3.4.3 Wrapper Governance and Planning; 3.5 SOA Best Practices; 3.5.1 Governance; 3.5.2 Data Management; 3.5.3 Service Policies; 3.5.4 When It Is Okay to Tightly Couple; 3.6 Conclusion; Chapter 4: Middleware; 4.1 The Definition of Middleware; 4.1.1 Middleware in SOA
  • 4.1.2 Features and Components of Middleware4.2 Application Servers; 4.3 The Enterprise Service Bus; 4.4 Other Middleware Components; 4.5 What Middleware Is Not Good For; 4.6 Middleware Best Practices; 4.7 Conclusion; Chapter 5: Web Services; 5.1 Why Web Services?; 5.1.1 A Media Engineer's Perspective; 5.1.2 Important Characteristics; 5.2 XML: Extensible Markup Language; 5.2.1 The Benefits of Using XML; 5.2.2 XML in Web Services; 5.3 Web Services Roles; 5.3.1 The Service Provider; 5.3.2 The Service Consumer; 5.3.3 The Service Registry; 5.4 Web Services Standards; 5.4.1 WSDL; 5.4.2 SOAP
  • 5.4.3 UDDI5.4.4 Other Standards; 5.5 Web Services Considerations; 5.6 How Web Services Are Better Than Other Communication Methods; 5.7 Conclusion; Chapter 6: Business Process Management: Definitions, Concepts, and Methodologies; 6.1 The Benefits of Business Process Management; 6.1.1 Agility; 6.1.2 Visibility; 6.1.3 Organizational Benefits of BPM; 6.2 Workflow Analysis; 6.2.1 Business Modeling and Simulation; 6.2.2 The Ten Commandments of Workflow Analysis; 6.3 Process Orchestration; 6.3.1 The Process Layer; 6.3.2 Architectural Considerations for Processes
  • 6.3.3 Organizational Considerations in Processes