Presenter

Chris Greenslade, Director & Principal Consutant, CLARS Limited

Chris is Director and Principal Consultant of CLARS Limited. Chris is currently Chair of the Supplier Council atThe Open Group.

He is a member of The Open Group’s Specification Authority that specifies the policies, processes and conformance criteria of the ITAC program. He was also a member of the first ever ITAC Certification Review Board and many subsequent ones.

Presentation

Tutorial: The Impact of SOA on Business

This is the first of a series of tutorials on SOA prepared by The Open Group's SOA Work Group. It explains:

• What SOA is and is not,
• The basic principles of SOA,
• The benefits of SOA to the business,
• The benefits of SOA to the IT of the business,
• The current status of SOA, o SOA maturity, and
• How SOA is related to other architectural approaches, such as cloud and grid computing

This tutorial is designed for Business Executives, Business Managers, Business Strategists, Business Consultants, Business Analysts, 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. It assumes no prior knowledge of SOA.

The SOA conference stream will include two other tutorials in the series, which build on this first tutorial: SOA Governance, and SOA Architecture.