• 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

• CIOs
• IT Directors
• Software Architects
• Project Managers
• Line of Business Owners
• 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.

Duration

• 1/2 Day: Can be customized for specific needs

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