Presenter

Dr. Chris Harding, Director SOA Work Group, The Open Group

Dr Chris Harding is Director for Interoperability and SOA at The Open Group. He has been with The Open Group for over ten years, and is currently responsible for managing and supporting its work on interoperability, including SOA and interoperability aspects of Cloud Computing.

Before joining The Open Group, he was a consultant, and a designer and development manager of communications software.

With a PhD in mathematical logic, he welcomes the current upsurge of interest in semantic technology, and the opportunity to apply logical theory to practical use. He has presented at Open Group and other conferences on a range of topics, and contributes articles to on-line journals. He is a member of the BCS, the IEEE, and the AOGEA, and is a certified TOGAF practitioner.

Presentations

Plenary presentation (Monday 19):
SOA Today

This presentation describes the current state and possible future direction of SOA.

SOA is a style of enterprise architecture that can deliver agility and boundaryless information flow. It is a mature style, with established standards. Commercial off-the-shelf products that an enterprise can use to build its SOA platform are readily available.

Buying the latest product does not guarantee success. There has been mixed experience of SOA, with failures as well as success stories. An enterprise needs a sound architectural approach to gain the benefits of SOA.

Technology, as always, is moving forward. The latest technical phenomenon is Cloud Computing, and it is rapidly gaining momentum. How will it affect the way that enterprises use SOA?

SOA stream (Tuesday 20):
Tutorial: SOA Architecture

This is the third of the series of tutorials on SOA prepared by The Open Group's SOA Work Group. It builds on the first two tutorials: "The Impact of SOA on Business," and "SOA Governance". It explains The Open Group's SOA Reference Architecture, and describes how it relates to enterprise SOA reference architectures, and how they in turn relate to SOA business solutions and infrastructure.

This tutorial is designed for Business Process Engineers, System Analysts, Enterprise Architects, IT Directors, IT Strategists, IT Operations Managers, IT Architects, IT Project Managers, System Designers, Software Architects, Software Engineers, and System Administrators.