By now, you’ve probably heard about SOA & Web Services…From your IT folks.  In your professional journals.  In conversation with your peers.  And in every meeting with your IT vendors.

So why spend a half-day of your valuable time learning about Web Services and Services-Oriented Architecture?

Because the SOA-Web Services Executive Summary gives you the straight word.  No vendor hype.  No wild promises.  Just the plain unadorned truth about why you should consider investing in SOA-Web Services.  What SOA will cost you.  How you might benefit.

We designed the SOA-Web Services Executive Summary specifically for Business Area and IT leaders who need "SOA Literacy".  This briefing provides a concise primer in SOA concepts, facilities, issues and terminology.

• What’s a Web Service?  How does it work and why is it different?

• What’s a SOA?  How does it work and why is it different?

• How do shared and reusable application services add value and agility?

• Why the critical importance of a standards-based & platform-independent environment?

• When and how should organizations use the SOA approach?

• How do organizations typically evolve through the stages of SOA implementation?

The SOA-Web Services Executive Summary uses non-technical language, business models and graphic illustrations to explain the components, benefits and challenges of the Services-Oriented Architecture.  In this concise, hard-hitting briefing, you will learn both the theory and reality of this important application framework and strategy for application integration and deployment.

• How SOA & Web Services can provide real business benefits to your organization

• How evolving from “silo to shared” requires a new governance model

• What it will cost you- not just in budget, but also in terms of business process and culture change

• Why SOA requires a multi-dimensional approach, including not just Technology, but also Methodology & Sociology

Who Should Attend?

Business area and IT leaders who plan, fund and influence application architectures & strategies

What You Will Learn

• What is a Web Service?

  • What’s a Web Service and why should you care?

  • How do Web Services work?

  • What makes shareable and reusable Web Services different?

• What is a Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA)?

  • How do SOAs evolve?

  • When and why do you need a SOA?

  • How does a SOA work?

  • What makes a SOA different?

• When and why would you use SOA?

  • What are the typical SOA implementation stages?

  • How does SOA support business application flexibility, agility, scalability and quality?

  • What business scenarios are best for the SOA approach?

  • How does SOA help you address platform and application integration?

• What can you do to increase your chances of SOA success?

  • 10 Lessons Learned for managers and leaders of SOA implementations

  • 13 pot holes on the SOA Journey

  • What should you do to get ready for Web Services and SOA?

Seminar Outline

Part 1: SOA Theory & Fundamentals…Definition, Philosophy & Justification

• Case Study Demonstration (Automotive Work Order)

• Business Benefits

  • Service Reuse & Sharing: Lower costs, higher quality, improve productivity

  • Integration: Standard interfaces help link data, functions & processess

  • Business Agility: Application flexibility & change/extend speed

• SOA Evolution

  • Service Scope: Information Integration, Legacy Application Wrapping, Reusable Services, Orchestrated Process

  • Enterprise Scope: Department, Division, Organization, Trusted Partner, Public

  • Implementation Phases: Integration, Internal SOA, B2B SOA, Enterprise SOA

• SOA Definition, Principles & Philosophy

  • Service

  • SOA Definition

Part 2: A Non-Technical Introduction to Web Service & SOA Technologies

• Genesis, Evolution & Governance

  • Origins

  • Standards bodies

• The Architecture of the Architecture

  • Requester-Provider-Consumer Composite Application Model

  • Find-Bind-Execute Pattern using the Registry

  • Enterprise SOA: Complex & Long-lived Workflows Compel a Middle Layer

  • Application Layer & Coordination Layer Functions

  • The Enterprise Services Bus (ESB) & similar solution patterns

Part 3: SOA Investments and how to Minimize Costs

• Investments at each SOA Stage

• How to Make SOA Investments as Cost-Effect as Possible

  • 10 Lessons Learned

  • 13 Pot Holes on the SOA Journey

• Conclusion

  • Business Driver Model

  • Next Steps on the SOA Journey