Erik Haahr has long experience within enterprise architecture, business process integration, business process reengineering and IT development methodologies.

Erik Haahr has been building, staffing and running the enterprise architecture function in DSB from scratch for two years. Prior to this Erik was responsible for enterprise architecture at the pharmaceutical group Lundbeck where he worked for eleven years at the headquarter.

Erik has been working with methodology and architecture since the mid 80's within utilities, education, government administration, pharmaceuticals and transportation.

Erik has very strong analytical skills and a good sense of humour. This combined with stamina and endurance gets the job done - and always with a ssmile.

Presentation
SOA - A New Paradigm

SOA is not one technology/methodology/... it's a new paradigm! And that does take a lot of time and explanation to developers but also, and just as important, to project managers, system owners and user representatives - and you cannot reuse the explanation.

SOA deliverables can be easier to hand over from external consultants to internal people compared to the "application paradigm" - but there are some requirements related to granularity, partitioning, architectural details on the implementation etc.

You can start implementing SOA in a "corner", but it has to be "the right corner" for SOA to gain momentum.

The lesson, that you need to have at least some understanding of the architecture from the vision to the technology implementation and that you must communicate that understanding - is valid for any technology. The impact is just greater when you change paradigm…

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