IASA

In some ways this book is sort of a soft sciences version of of Bernus et al. Handbook on Enterprise Architecture. Saha presents us with  twenty six case studies organized in five sections. These are Frameworks and Methodologies, Governance and Management, Transformation and Value Realization, Implementation and Deployment and Technology and Service-Orientated Architecture.

Each section contains a number of chapters written by experienced architects, this is very much Enterprise Systems Architecture in Practice, any reference to theory is typically couched in a practical context thus bridging a gap that many publications fail. This book is the collective knowledge of a lot of talented people and contains a lot of thought provoking points and painful experiences.

This is not a book to start your collection with and its probably not a book for the manager or the novice, but it is none the less an excellent book that delivers. Well written, but not overly academic this is a big book of 460+ pages of carefully selected quality EA writing, beautifully presented. There really isn't much else to say about it. I'd suggest that it is destined to become a classic.

Saha, Pallab (ed) (2007), Handbook of Enterprise Systems Architecture in Practice, Information Science Reference, Idea Group Inc, Hershey.

ISBN 978-159904189-6