Mr. Cowdery is a SOA Strategist with webMethods SOA Solutions Group focused on accelerating real-world adoption of Services Oriented Architectures. Mr. Cowdery works to identify and implement the pragmatic next steps specifically designed for an individual client organization to accelerate Business and IT alignment.

Prior to joining webMethods, Mr. Cowdery served as Director of Enterprise Architecture for several multi-national companies where he defined and implemented enterprise architectures and processes for application development, technology infrastructures and IT operations. His 20+ year consulting background combines technical breadth and depth, with deep industry domain experience yielding results-oriented engagements firmly grounded in the clients financial objectives. Industry experience includes: financial services, telecommunications, clinical healthcare, and manufacturing, among others.

Presentations
Pragmatic SOA Adoption
For years vendors have touted the promise of myriad benefits for a company with the adoption a Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach. Unfortunately, "market-tecture" and reality of SOA are very different. For many companies, the day to day implementation of SOA becomes stalled without realizing any of the claimed benefits. This presentation highlights the causes of these stalled initiatives and pragmatic approaches to restart your SOA adoption.

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