This book describes Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and the significant factors which affect its adoption, such as governance, strategy, complexity, Return on Investment (ROI), business and IT alignment, culture and communication, costs, and security. The study on which this book is based, involved a quantitative analysis to investigate the influential factors for adopting SOA, paving the way to further research in the field.

Describes the various factors, such as security, influencing Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) adoption in many organizations Investigates the relation between SOA adoption factors and the organizations' performance Developes a new SOA adoption framework to measure the effect on organizational performance

Autorentext

Naghmeh Niknejad, received her B.Sc. from Islamic Azad University of Sepidan, Iran in 2007. She got M.S. in IT Management at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in 2014. She is a PhD candidate in Information Systems at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. She has been doing research on several topics such as Consumer Behaviour, Technology Management, Information Systems Management (Technology Adoption), Internet of Things Adoption, Wearables Adoption, and Service Oriented Architecture Adoption.

Ab Razak Che Hussin is an Assoc. Prof of Information Systems at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He was awarded a Master degree in Information Systems at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in 1998. He received his PhD at University of Manchester, UK, in 2006. His research focus includes studying Information Systems, Web Application, Trust and Privacy in e-Commerce, Database, IT Planning and Management, IT for Organization Transformation, and Research Methodology.

Iraj Sadegh Amiri received his B. Sc (Applied Physics) from Public University of Oroumiyeh, Iran in 2001 and a gold medalist M. Sc. (Physics/Optics)) from University Technology Malaysia (UTM), in 2009. He was awarded a PhD degree in Physics (photonics) in Jan 2014. He has been doing research on several topics such as the optical soliton communications, laser physics, plasmonics photonics devices, nonlinear fiber optics, optoelectronics devices using 2D materials, waveguides, quantum cryptography and nanotechnology engineering.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Introduction Of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Adoption.- Chapter 2. Literature Review Of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Adoption Researches And The Related Significant Factors.- Chapter 3. Quantitative Research Methodology For Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Adoption In Organizations.- Chapter 4. Developing Of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Adoption Framework And The Related Hypotheses.- Chapter 5. Analyzing Of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Experts Responses By Smartpls Version 2.- Chapter 6. Conclusion And Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Experts Recommendations For Organizations.