TRACK: SOA Tutorials
Monday, July 19, 2010 — 2.00 - 5.00

2.00 - 2.45 Tutorial: Assessing Your Service Integration Maturity Model This is the second of a series of five tutorials on SOA prepared by The Open Group's SOA Work Group. It explains:    * The concept of service integration maturity    * How different maturity levels can give different business benefits    * The Open Group's Service Integration Maturity Model (OSIMM), and    * How to assess an enterprise's maturity level using the OSIMM The Open Group SOA Integration Maturity Model (OSIMM) provides a means to assess an organization’s Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) maturity level. It defines a process to create a roadmap for incremental adoption which maximizes business benefits at each stage along the way. The model consists of seven levels of maturity and seven dimensions of consideration that represent significant views of business and IT capabilities where the application of SOA principles is essential for the deployment of services. The OSIMM acts as a quantitative model to aid in assessment of current state and desired future state of SOA maturity. OSIMM may be used to support an SOA assessment of a single project or for an entire line of business, the entire enterprise, a service eco-system, or industry. The purpose of the OSIMM assessment method is to assess the current maturity and determine the target maturity level (goal state) necessary to meet stated business objectives. Extending the OSIMM model to assess maturity against additional maturity indicators such as SOA industry frameworks is expected and encouraged. The OSIMM assessment method is iterative and evolutionary. As an organization adopts an SOA strategy, becomes more familiar with OSIMM assessments, and accumulates experience implementing SOA systems, it may add its own maturity indicators to the model. The value of OSIMM as an assessment tool is to provide SOA transformation and adoption guidance for the SOA governance process. This tutorial is designed for Business Executives, Business Managers, Business Strategists, Business Consultants, Business Analysts, Business Process Engineers, System Analysts, Enterprise Architects, IT Directors, IT Strategists, IT Operations Managers, IT Architects, IT Project Managers, System Designers, Software Architects, Software Engineers, and System Administrators. It assumes that the attendee has been to and understood the first tutorial, on the Business Impact of SOA. The SOA conference stream will include four other tutorials in the series, which build on the first two tutorials: SOA Governance, SOA Architecture, Using TOGAF™ for SOA, and Implementing SOA. Andras Szakal, Director Software Architecture, IBM US Federal Software Group Mr. Szakal is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect of IBM's Federal Software business unit. He is also an IBM Senior Certified Software IT Architect and an IBM Certified SOA Solution Designer. His responsibilities include developing e-Government software architectures using IBM middleware and leading the IBM federal government software IT architect team. Mr. Szakal holds undergraduate degrees in Biology and Computer Science and a Masters Degree in Computer Science from James Madison University. Mr. Szakal has been a driving force behind IBM's adoption of government IT standards and is a member of the IBM Software Group Strategy Team. The team he leads has been responsible for helping the federal government move e-Government into the On-Demand era through the application of SOA. His team has been directly involved with multiple, high-profile, successful government software and services engagements based on open standards and open source. Mr. Szakal represents IBM SWG on the Board of Directors of The Open Group. He currently holds the Chair of the IT Architect Profession Certification Standard (ITAC) within the Open Group.

2.45 - 3.30 Tutorial: Business Impact of SOA This is the first of a series of tutorials on SOA prepared by The Open Group's SOA Work Group. It explains: What SOA is and is not, The basic principles of SOA, The current status of SOA standards The benefits of SOA to the business, This tutorial is designed for Business Executives, Business Managers, Business Strategists, Business Consultants, Business Analysts, Business Process Engineers, System Analysts, Enterprise Architects, IT Directors, IT Strategists, IT Operations Managers, IT Architects, IT Project Managers, System Designers, Software Architects, Software Engineers, and System Administrators. It assumes no prior knowledge of SOA. Magda M. Mourad, PhD, Distinguished Chief IT Architect, IBM Dr. Magda Mourad is a Certified Distinguished Chief IT Architect with IBM Software Group’s Industry Solutions team. She joined IBM in 1989 as a Research Scientist at the T.J. Watson Research Center, where she became a Manager then the Research Strategist for eLearning in 1999 before moving to the Digital Media business unit where she held the role of CTO in 2005. She also went on two international assignments in Europe and the Middle East. Magda’s areas of technical expertise include: Enterprise Systems Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture, Utilities and Hosting Services, Digital Rights Management for Secure Content Distribution, Digital Broadcast Networks, Collaboration Tools and Applications, Virtual Organizations, and eLearning & Training Systems. Magda is the inventor of seven issued US patents. She co-authored a book chapter on Securing Digital Content and published numerous papers in IEEE and IBM technical journals as well as international conferences. She is currently chairing the IEEE working group that developed a Recommended Practice for Digital Rights Expression Languages (DRELs) Suitable for eLearning Technologies. Magda obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Ecole des Mines de Nancy, France and her B.Eng. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and M.S. in Computer Engineering from Alexandria University, Egypt.

3.30 - 4.00 Break

4.00 - 4.45 Tutorial: SOA Governance This is one of the series of five tutorials on SOA prepared by The Open Group's SOA Work Group. It builds on these tutorials: The Impact of SOA on Business and Assessing Your Service Integration Maturity. It explains: What SOA governance is How it relates to other governance structures in the business What high-level governance structures and procedures need to be put into place. An example of SOA Governance applied to the example company scenario This tutorial is designed for Business Executives, Business Managers, Business Strategists, Business Consultants, Business Analysts, Business Process Engineers, System Analysts, Enterprise Architects, IT Directors, IT Strategists, IT Operations Managers, IT Architects, IT Project Managers, System Designers, Software Architects, Software Engineers, and System Administrators. Jorge L. Diaz, Executive IT Architect, The Open Group Distinguished Certified IT Architect, WW Cross Brand Solutions, IBM Software Group Jorge Diaz is an Executive IT Architect (The Open Group Distinguished Certified) within IBM Software Group’s WW CrossBrand Solutions team. Mr. Diaz provides world-wide solution architecture and enablement focusing on IBM’s software portfolio. He is a steering committee member of The Open Group's SOA Working Group and co-chair of its SOA Governance standard. Jorge has extensive experience in a variety of industries, geographies and technologies, with a proven track record of leadership with customers adopting Service Oriented Architecture and the governance mechanisms necessary for its success. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science, a Master of Software Engineering, and a variety of technical certifications (including TOGAF). Jorge is a senior member of IEEE, and member of ACM and SEI. He is a frequent speaker and author.

4.45 - 5.30 Tutorial: Architecting SOA Ed Harrington, Principal Consultant, Architecting the Enterprise Mr. Harrington recently joined Architecting the Enterprise as a Principle Consultant where he provides TOGAF Training and Enterprise Architecture Consultancy. Formerly, he was Executive VP and COO for Model Driven Solutions (MDS), an Enterprise Architecture, SOA and Model Driven Architecture Consulting and Software Development company. Ed has been an active member of The Open Group since 2000 when the EMA became part of The Open Group and is past chair of various Open Group Forums (including past Vice Chair of the Architecture Forum) and is current Vice Chair of the Supplier Council. Prior to MDS, Ed managed various operations for two UK based companies, Nexor and ICL. Before that, Ed spent 18 years at General Electric in various marketing and financial management positions. Ed is TOGAF 9 certified.

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