Introduction to SOA - Seminar Details
Abstract
Introduction to Service-Oriented Architectures provides technically oriented IT staff, line of business owners and software investors with a firm foundational understanding of SOA. Attendees will come away with an overall understanding of the technology trends driving the SOA wave and also with a context within which to evaluate SOA related technologies as they evolve.
Target Audience
o CIOs
o IT Directors
o Software Architects
o Project Managers
o Line of Business Owners
o Investors in Software
Agenda
Concepts: Computer science and software development concepts essential to SOA including distributed computing, client/server programming, protocols and more.
History and Evolution: Takes you through the evolution from pre-SOA technologies (Batch computing), through mainframe Transaction Processing (TP), Distributed TP, Object Request Brokers (ORBs), application servers, integration brokers, Enterprise Service Buses (ESBs) and ultimately to web services and SOA.
Standard Technologies: Discussion of why standards are important to SOA, what organizations are driving them and how they are evolving over time to become essential building blocks for SOA.
Products & Vendors: Discusses three different approaches software vendors are taking to monetize the SOA wave; extending the platform, focus on integration and SOA component technologies. Overviews of leading vendors and their offerings are provided.
SOA Challenges: Covers three major challenges for IT shops looking to implement SOA; technical, cultural and political/business. Strategies for addressing these challenges are discussed.
Format/Length
119 page slide show delivered in PDF format
Last Updated
April 2007