Presentation
SOA/BAM/Grid and the quest for the IT Holy Grail
Imagine an IT environment where new business functions can be added seamlessly and integrated with each other to provide new business processes; where there is automatic reconfiguration in the event of overload or failure. This IT Holy Grail is getting closer due to the development of event-based and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA).

SOA reintroduces the concept of software components, but independent of programming languages, transport or activation protocols. As a result, integration is made easier and the activation of components is no longer an issue. The Grid computing concept can as a result, capitalise on SOA.

Such an environment requires real-time monitoring at various levels (systems, applications, business processes, etc). New event-based Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) technology provides the means for this overall control. Sensors can be placed at systems, applications and business process levels and can send events to a monitoring system to inform on the status of the analysed entity. This BAM technology is being standardized.

The combination of SOA, Grid and BAM into a single comprehensive architecture represents a major step towards the IT Holy Grail.

This presentation introduces these new concepts and their associated technologies from an architectural perspective and explains how they provide the IT environment of tomorrow.

From this session delegates with learn about the new architectural approach based on SOA, understand its full power (ex: support other concepts such as Grid), and allow for a more efficient monitoring of the business functions (BAM).

This session is intended to architects, IT managers in charge of deciding the direction to take for their IT systems.

The length of this session can range from 30 minutes to half day, depending on the level of detailed required.