Mr. Jason Bloomberg is Managing Partner at Service-Oriented Architecture industry analysis and advisory firm ZapThink LLC.

Mr. Bloomberg has a diverse background in eBusiness technology management and industry analysis, including serving as a senior analyst in IDC's eBusiness Advisory group, as well as holding eBusiness management positions at USWeb/CKS (later marchFIRST) and WaveBend Solutions (now Hitachi Consulting).

• IT Managers, including individuals in the following positions
• project manager
• VP of IT
• Chief Architect, VP of Architecture
• CIO, as well as operational managers.

It is also for Line-of-Business managers which some technical background who want to understand SOA in more depth.

Practice Managers and Practice Directors at any IT professional services firm will also find this course quite valuable

Attendees of this course will:

• Gain a working understanding of SOA
• Understand how SOA can benefit their organization
• Learn about the pitfalls that organizations implementing SOA face, and how to avoid them.

• The Business Inflexibility Trap
• Business Agility
• Service Orientation: A Business Approach
• What is SOA?
• Is SOA New?
• One Difference is Web Services
• SOA vs. Web Services
• If not Web Services, Then What?
• The Distributed Computing Pendulum
• Service orientation…the next big thing?
• Business Drivers for SOA
• Building Support for SOA
• Defining SOA Success
• Challenges in Calculating ROI
• The Business Case
• SOA: Paradigm Shift?
• SOA: A Technology View
• SOA: Infrastructure Service View
• SOA: A Business Service View
• Service Composition: Supporting Business Process with Services

• SOBAs: Rethinking the Application
• Service-Oriented Process
• Business Empowerment vs. IT Control
• Governance: The Key to Business Empowerment
• How to Think Service-Oriented
• What is Architecture?
• Loose Coupling
• Loose Coupling: Separation of Concerns
• Levels of Coupling
• Loose Coupling and ContexT
• The Secret Sauce: Metadata
• Role of Metadata
• What are Metadata?
• Metadata for SOA
• Service Contracts: The Key to Loose Coupling
• What’s in a Contract?
• What’s NOT in the Contract
• WSDL: Service Contract Starting Point
  Contract Metadata Beyond WSDL

• Challenge Area #1: Funding
• The Business Case
• Traditional IT Funding: Project Based
• Initial SOA Funding
• Funding SOA Rollouts
• Budgeting SOA Projects
• Calculating your SOA Project Budget
• Completing the Project Budget
• Business Driver: Cost Savings
• Reducing Integration Cost
• Business Driver: Reuse
• Confusing SOA & Web Services
• Governance Pitfall: Versioning
• Architecture is not About the Technology
• Is there an Architect in the House?
• Challenge Area #3: Organizational Issues
• Challenge: Inertia in the Organization
• Challenge: Balancing IT Control & Business Empowerment
• Challenge: Reuse = Sharing
• Building the right SOA team
• Interaction Challenges

• Benefit: Increasing Efficiency Thru Service Reuse
• Business Driver: Visibility
• Visibility & Control
• Business Driver: Business Empowerment
• Business Driver: Business Agility
• When Not to Apply SOA
• Challenge Area #2: SOA Pitfalls
• SOA Growing Pains
• SOA = Best Practices
• The Problems with “VDA”
• The “Ivory Tower” Problem
• The Power of the SOA Center of Excellence
• Convincing Technical Specialist
• Working with IT Middle Management
• Enabling Service Domains
• Service Domain Roles
• Enterprise Architecture Challenges
• EA Challenges: The Role of the EA
• The Real Challenge: People, Change and Fear

• Technology Selection
• SOA Infrastructure Starting Point: The Intermediary
• Some Intermediary Roles
• SOA Depends upon Transformation & Content-Based Routing
• Challenges in Content Processing
• Levels of SOA Infrastructure
• SOA Infrastructure: More than Intermediation
• The Continued Value of Legacy
• SOA, Integration & Legacy
• Legacy Migration
• Legacy Enablement
• Legacy Rejuvenation
• Messaging Infrastructure
• SOA Message Exchange Patterns
• SOA Tenet: Asynchrony
• Messages vs. Events
• Messaging Challenges at the Content Level
• XML: Foundation for Web Services
• Is XML Required for SOA?
• The XML Processing Problem
• The XML Performance Crisis
• Hardware vs. Software Approaches to Improve XML Performance
• Complexities of SOA Metadata Mgmt. Marketplace
• What is a Registry?
• What is a Repository?
• Purchasing SOA Infrastructure
• The Great ESB/SOA Middleware Boondoggle
• Compounding the Problem: No Clear ESB Definition

• Distributed XML Processing
• Critical XML Processing Challenge: Security
• The Context of IT Security
• XML Threat Prevention
• Web Services Security
• The SOA Security Challenge
• The Security Context Challenge
• Security Context Kludges
• Federated Security
• The GQM Loop
• Corporate Governance
• What is a Policy?
• The Challenge of Policy Automation
• Steps for Automating Policies
• Supporting Policy Changes
• Quality & the Service Lifecycle
• SOA Quality Assurance
• The Challenge of SOA Testing
• Quality & Management
• SOA Management: Many Facets
• The Problem with SOA Management…
• The First Rule of SOA Management
• The SOA Management Conundrum
• Exception Management & SOA
• Metadata Management & SOA
• Do You need an ESB for Service Mediation?
• Intermediary-Based Service Abstraction
• Building Intermediary-Based SOA Infrastructure
• Semantics: The Greatest Challenge of SOA
• Resolving Semantic Issues

• Iterative: More than Step-by-Step
• SOA Project Approach
• Implementation Notes
• Iterate your Architecture?
• SOA Pilots
• Iterative Problem Domain
• Iterating SOA Initiatives
• The Governance Model
• SOA Governance Steps
• Governance/Security Model
• Measuring SOA Maturity
• Agility Models
• SOA Maturity Model: Wipro
• SOA Maturity Model: HP

• Service Integration Maturity Model: IBM
• “SOA” Maturity Model – Sonic/Systinet
• SOA Maturity Model: Oracle
• Corporate Governance
• Governance & Regulatory Compliance
• The Business Motivation for Governance
• How to Tackle Governance?
• Governance Relationships
• The Cornerstone of IT Governance is Architecture
• Elements of IT Governance Strategy
• Architectural Governance Processes
• IT Governance Feedback Loop
• SOA Governance “in the Narrow”
• Creating the Governance Framework

• Applying SOA to Business Process
• The Role of Business Process Reengineering
• The Automation Paradox
• Problems with Traditional BPM Tooling
• Varieties of Business Processes
• Enterprise Applications and Process
• Example: SAP NetWeaver

• Service Consumers & Enterprise Mashups
• The Services Tipping Point
• SOBAs & Service Consumers
• The Rise of the Service Consumer
• The Rise of the Mashup
• Web 2.0 vs. SOA
• Enterprise Mashup in Action

• Rs 4850 / +12.36% service tax per participant
• Rs 13500 / +12.36% service tax for 3 participants
• Rs 20000 / +12.36% service tax for 5 participants

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