Pete Bouchard is an Executive Architect and the Principal Architect – Americas for IBM. Pete advises customers in every industry on design and implementation of complex software solutions, design and development methodologies, and solution deployment.

Prior to joining IBM, Pete spent 23 years in Aerospace, Insurance, Retail and Healthcare where he held jobs ranging from system support and application development to executive level positions in application architecture, planning and delivery. He has also designed and patented solutions for using cryptographic technology in large scale messaging solutions, System Risk and Avoidance, and Enterprise Messaging Infrastructures.

Presentation
Service Oriented Architecture: The Business of Services
SOA has been under construction since the early work on componentization in the 1980’s. The current marketing in the industry around the meaning, appropriateness and substance around Service Oriented Architecture has led to a plethora of confusion about what constitutes an SOA. Is it a product, a discipline a style or just the current best buzz word for selling a particular product or project?

This discussion will approach SOA from a “business appropriateness” perspective and will attempt to clarify the what is SOA and at the same time open up considerations around other SOA imposed issues such as Systems Management, , Governance, Classes of Componentization, and will introduce a taxonomy for classifying organizations base on their ability to adopt SOA and SOA imposing technologies

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