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Demonstrating the Real Value of SOA
Roosevelt Hotel, New York City
The adoption of SOA is bringing an increasing number of companies both immediate and long-term gains. It is a powerful force for businesses to adopt, but it can also be disruptive if improperly approached. What skills do you need to do it right? How do you manage the business and technology relationships that SOA requires? What are the IT infrastructure implications? How does SOA relate to Web services? Can you manage SOA approaches within existing frameworks? These questions and more will be tackled at the tenth installment of InfoWorld's SOA Executive Forum.
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has emerged as the key direction in enterprise software development and management. Businesses today have layers of applications stretching back to 30-year-old mainframes, creating an unmanageable jumble of software that hinders efficiency and flexibility. SOA promises a way to cut through those layers, letting you use older technology when appropriate and bring in new applications in a more rational, sustainable, and flexible way. It's no surprise that the number of companies investing in SOA has doubled in just the last year, according to AMR Research.
It's now clear from the experiences of early adopters what SOA does bring: agility, meaning the ability to deploy new projects faster, in turn letting the business reap benefits from its IT initiatives faster. As more organizations gain experience with SOA, they quickly realize that its benefits -- if properly applied -- reach far beyond IT and into the business itself. That's because SOA is fundamentally about the management of business processes, and organizations that apply SOA's principles to those processes gain efficiency and flexibility throughout their organizations.
At the SOA Executive Forum, hear first-hand from IT executives at companies implementing SOA principles about both the benefits and challenges of weaving SOA into your IT and business processes.
Highlights of the Two-Day Event:
- Keynote Presentations by industry experts outlining innovative uses of SOA and related technologies such as BPM
- Deep-Dive Technical Track across industries addressing challenges of implementing SOA platforms, application development tools, and application lifecycle management tools; best approaches to developing and applying architectural methods; understanding how to evaluate vendors' claims; and integration with existing software and IT infrastructure
- Case Studies on SOA technology, architecture and management (governance) issues, followed by moderated Q&A sessions
- Expert Panel Discussions on architecture design, SOA governance, the use of metrics, managing services across the lifecycle, integration with legacy software and vendor suites, applying SOA to both process- and transaction-based workflows, extending SOA techniques to expert users through BPM, and proper software design
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| SOA Executive Forum Event at a Glance |
InfoWorld's 10th SOA Executive Forum with the theme of Demonstrating the Real Vaue of SOA will feature Fortune 500 IT professionals sharing personal experiences, strategies and lessons learned.
September 16-17 , 2008
Roosevelt Hotel
New York, NY
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| Who Should Attend |
The SOA Executive Forum highlights case studies from financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, transportation, manufacturing, government, and more.
Technology: CIOs, CTOs, VPs of technology, IT directors, engineers, enterprise architects
Business: CEOs, CFOs, presidents, VPs, business directors and managers
Sponsorship Info?
Jo-Ann Pellegrini
Business Development Manager
415-978-3144
Speaking Info?
Lauren O'Brien
Conference Programs Specialist
508-820-8189
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