Are you a research student or teacher of software engineering focused on enterprise IT transformation issues? Are you a practitioner in a traditional IT organization challenged to transition to agile, modern enterprise services? Eman El-Sheikh et al. have put together an excellent collection of resources for you. ... This book is a modern textbook for a course on application service engineering. It can be a valuable reference for supporting the early days of a researcher in software engineering. (Sundara Nagarajan, Computing Reviews, March, 2017)