David Nichols is a Partner and Global Lead for Accenture's Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) practice in the Technology and Delivery Organization. Mr. Nichols has global responsibility for the continued development of Accenture's service oriented architecture skills, assets and solutions that will help clients on the journey to become high performance businesses. He also possesses robust technical experience in enterprise application integration technologies, integration architectures, and ERP implementations.

He has over fourteen years of experience planning, designing, and developing Enterprise Integration solutions for clients in a broad range of industries. Prior to assuming leadership for Accenture’s SOA practice, David was the North America lead for the Web Services and Integration Practice. He has spent most of his career at Accenture, leading business integration consulting work for clients in the products, financial services, government, and health services industries. His client experience focused primarily on integrating strategy, technology and business processes components to lead clients through major change initiatives.

Presentation
Building a Foundation for High Performance with Service Oriented Architecture
With the service oriented architecture era well underway, an increasing number of businesses and governments are turning to SOA to provide the technical underpinning that is enabling them to more effectively integrate systems, refine and create new business processes and design new business services. In fact, according to Accenture research, half of high-performing IT organizations are significantly committing SOA to their business and three-quarters are expecting SOA to deliver measurable benefits. Learn how Accenture clients are approaching SOA to ensure they maximize the business benefits and what Accenture recommends organizations must do to help build a foundation for high performance with SOA.

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