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  Ali Arsanjani and Jorge Diaz — IBM    

Ali ArsanjaniAli Arsanjani, PhD, is Chief Architect for the SOA and Web Services Center of Excellence within IBM Global Services, specializing in harvesting and developing best-practices for the modeling, analysis, design and implementation of SOA and Web Services.

He leads the internal IBM worldwide SOA & Web Services Community of Practice (5000+ members) and is the principal author of the (Service-oriented Modeling and Architecture) SOMA method for SOA.

He is currently focusing on SOA Tooling with support for Modeling (SOMA), Assessments, Strategy and Planning, Governance, Architecture and Realization and their practical application to engagements inside and outside of IBM.

 

Jorge DiazJorge Diaz is a Solution Architect with IBM Software Group. He focuses on delivering strategic and tactical architectures in the areas of middleware and distributed systems integration, working throughout the Americas and Europe.

Mr. Diaz works closely with large corporations helping them adopt service-oriented solutions using a variety of leading technologies, including Web Services.

He is a steering committee member of The Open Group's SOA Workgroup, a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM and SEI.

   
 

Presentation
The Service Integration Maturity Model (SIMM): A Roadmap of Maturity for SOA
As companies move towards SOA, it is important to understand where they are, where they want to be and how to get there. The first two steps are assessments of maturity of the current and target desired states, followed by a roadmap for transformation towards SOA.

The SIMM model provides a set of 7 dimensions of business, organization, methods, applications, architecture, information, infrastructure across 7 levels of maturity to handle the detailed complexity of today's vast heterogeneous systems.

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