Tony Carrato is the Worldwide Chief Operations Architect, for IBM's SOA Advanced Technology Team, in IBM Software Group.  In that role, he leads a team of architects, based in across the world, who deliver SOA project for IBM clients, including many government SOA projects.   Tony provides architecture oversight for these projects and manages the architecture deliveries. 

Tony is also co-chair of The Open Group's SOA Working Group, which is working to create open standards around SOA Reference Architectures, SOA Governance processes & architectures, and the intersection between SOA and Enterprise Architecture

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Measuring the Value of SOA
Many parties argue that SOA brings substantial value to organisations which implement it.   However, many of these values attributed to SOA seem to be "soft" values, hard to quantify and hard to measure.

This session will suggest some ways to think about SOA value which should support actually measuring that value. There isn't a single, right formula for all occassions and all organisations but there are a number of things which can be stated quantitatively and tracked.   We'll also examine things which are frequently measured but are actually less useful ways to judge the value of SOA.    The session will also offer attendees an opportunity to share approaches to measuring value with one another.

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